Download or read book Robert Helpmann written by Kathrine Sorley Walker and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Helpmann written by Gordon Anthony and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Helpmann written by Kathrine Sorley Walker and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Helpmann written by Richard Cave and published by . This book was released on 2018-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancer, actor in theatre, film and television, choreographer for stage and film, revue artist, director of ballet, opera, drama, pantomime, musicals, and comedy; Robert Helpmann (1909-1986) exuberantly realised a career that encompassed a phenomenal range. In ballet and dance he grew beyond his early years as Ninette de Valois' protégé within the Vic-Wells Ballet in the 1930s, to become premier danseur with the Company in the 1940s, guest artist with The Royal Ballet in the 1950s and 1960s, and finally director of Australian Ballet. In drama he acted with the Old Vic and the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, collaborated frequently with his partner, Michael Benthall, with Sir Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, and with Katharine Hepburn. In film his many performances brought him international celebrity, particularly in The Red Shoes, The Tales of Hoffmann and as the demonic Child-Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Helpmann's creative stamina was legendary. His personality embraced enigmas, complexities, a delight in continuous shape-changing and role-play (he was a master of stage-makeup); but these qualities accompanied a profound, whole-hearted and life-long commitment to all that we understand to be the 'theatre'. Clearly no one writer could do full justice to all the manifestations of Helpmann's genius. This was the reason for drawing on the many specialists and one-time colleagues whose essays and reminiscences make up this publication. But, as it is over thirty years since Helpmann's death and few are alive who experienced his early triumphs, the writers' verbal evocations of his theatrical persona are supported by over seventy photographs. To supplement these, a DVD offers filmed material of archival value and engages with the challenges facing attempts to revive Helpmann's choreographies today.
Download or read book Letters of Robert Helpmann and Others written by Sir Robert Helpmann and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters written by Robert Helpmann, Michael Benthall and Maurice Chevalier to artists Mimi Fogt and her husband Alberto Ramirez.
Download or read book Robert Helpmann Studies by Gordon Anthony with an Introduction by Ninette De Valois written by Gordon Anthony and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Robert Helpmann written by Anna Bemrose and published by University of Queensland Press(Australia). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Helpmann's many roles included those of dancer (ballet and musicals); mime artist; make-up artist; choreographer; actor (stage and screen); director of ballets, plays and operas; co-Artistic Director of the Australian Ballet; and Director of the 1970 Adelaide Festival of Arts."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Composing Australia Nostalgia and National Identity in the Music of Malcolm Williamson written by Carolyn Philpott and published by Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant, provocative, compassionate—the composer Malcolm Williamson was one of Australia’s most famous expatriates. As Carolyn Philpott explains, his nostalgia for his homeland lasted fifty years, from his emigration in 1953 until his death in 2003. In works such as the ballet The Display, Symphony no. 6 and The Dawn Is at Hand, he explored inventive ways of expressing his Australian identity, collaborating with Australian artists, paying homage to Australian musicians and exposing his sorrow for the treatment of Indigenous peoples. As the first book-length examination of Williamson’s music, Composing Australia is a portrait of an intriguing and always imaginative Australian.
Download or read book Speaking of Us written by Barry York and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echoes from the earliest years of the century mingle with the voices of contemporary Australia in this fascinating selection of excerpts from the Oral History Collection of the National Library of Australia. Humour and drama, sport, culture, politics and the media, work and leisure are all represented. There are stories of life from remote properties; there are comments on society and government policies; there are anecdotes and opinions.
Download or read book Pantomime written by Karl Toepfer and published by Vosuri Media. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers perhaps the most comprehensive history of pantomime ever written. No other book so thoroughly examines the varieties of pantomimic performance from the early Roman Empire, when the term “pantomime” came into use, until the present. After thoroughly examining the complexities and startlingly imaginative performance strategies of Roman pantomime, the author identifies the peculiar political circumstances that revived and shaped pantomime in France and Austria in the eighteenth century, leading to the Pierrot obsession in the nineteenth century. Modernist aesthetics awakened a huge, highly diverse fascination with pantomime. The book explores an extraordinary variety of modernist and postmodern approaches to pantomime in Germany, Austria, France, numerous countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Chile, England, and The United States. Making use of many performance and historical documents never before included in pantomime histories, the book also discusses pantomime’s messy relation to dance, its peculiar uses of music, its “modernization” through silent film aesthetics, and the extent to which writers, performers, or directors are “authors” of pantomimes. Just as importantly, the book explains why, more than any other performance medium, pantomime allows the spectator to see the body as the agent of narrative action.
Download or read book Vivien Leigh written by Michelangelo Capua and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm" Margaret Mitchell opened Gone with the Wind with this description of Scarlett O'Hara, but her words can hardly be applied to Vivien Leigh, the British actress who gave an unforgettable performance as the Southern belle. Leigh possessed a beauty that men seldom failed to recognize and a charm that caught many, but her life was far from being all beauty and charm. This biography of the beautiful and tortured actress, from her birth and childhood in exotic India to her premature death in 1967, gives special attention to her development and career as a stage and film actress (which culminated in one Tony award and two Oscars). Her ambitious personality and her manic-depressive illness, including the sexual compulsion that haunted her life, her romantic and tragic marriage to Laurence Olivier, and her performances in, for instance, Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire, are all detailed.
Download or read book Men who Dance written by Michael Gard and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What kinds of men become theatrical dancers? Why do men do ballet? The worlds of Western theatrical dance, gender relations and sexuality intermingle and, overtime, produce different answers to these questions. Survey of the history of men in dance, as Nijinsky and Nureyev, and of subjects as masculinity and homosexuality.
Download or read book Papers of Robert Helpmann written by Sir Robert Helpmann and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two scripts for the 1973 filmed version of the ballet Don Quixote, starring Helpmann, Rudolf Nureyev and members of The Australian Ballet, along with an unpublished essay that Helpmann wrote for Rudolf Nureyev on the subject of ballet on film; a script for a stage version of Dracula directed by Helpmann in 1979 for J. C. Williamson, starring John Waters; a script for Justin Fleming's play The Cobra, directed by Richard Wherrett for the Sydney Theatre Company in 1983, which co-starred Helpmann as Lord Alfred Douglas; a script for Ruth Wolff's play Sarah in America about actress Sarah Bernardt, which Helpmann directed; and a collection of theatre programmes and related ephemera. The scripts have handwritten annotations by Helpmann, and some are also signed by him.
Download or read book Helpmann written by Elizabeth Salter and published by Brighton [Eng.] : Angus and Robertson. This book was released on 1978 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tales of Hoffmann written by William Germano and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) is a unique and important film, both in the history of British cinema and in the history of interdisciplinary art-making. It is the first full-throttle presentation of an opera on screen: a Technicolor exploration of romance, fantasy, and failure, more danced than sung.
Download or read book Robert Helpmann Choreographer Illustrated by Tunbridge Sedgwick Photographs by Russell Sedgwick written by Caryl Brahms and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dying Swans and Madmen written by Adrienne L. McLean and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From mid-twentieth-century films such as Grand Hotel, Waterloo Bridge, and The Red Shoes to recent box-office hits including Billy Elliot, Save the Last Dance, and The Company, ballet has found its way, time and again, onto the silver screen and into the hearts of many otherwise unlikely audiences. In Dying Swans and Madmen, Adrienne L. McLean explores the curious pairing of classical and contemporary, art and entertainment, high culture and popular culture to reveal the ambivalent place that this art form occupies in American life. Drawing on examples that range from musicals to tragic melodramas, she shows how commercial films have produced an image of ballet and its artists that is associated both with joy, fulfillment, fame, and power and with sexual and mental perversity, melancholy, and death. Although ballet is still received by many with a lack of interest or outright suspicion, McLean argues that these attitudes as well as ballet's popularity and its acceptability as a way of life and a profession have often depended on what audiences first learned about it from the movies.
