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This vintage book contains the second in the series of handbooks on card manipulation by master magician Jean Hugard. Card manipulation is an element of magical illusion concerning the creation of effects through sleight of hand techniques that involve playing cards. It is commonly, employed in magical performances, particularly in street magic. Jean Hugard's fantastic series "More Card Manipulations" includes simple instructions for a variety of...
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This is volume IV of Jean Hugard's fantastic handbook "Card Manipulations", which includes simple instructions for a variety of fantastic tricks. Card manipulation is an element of magical illusion concerning the creation of effects through sleight of hand techniques that involve playing cards. It is commonly, employed in magical performances, particularly in street magic. Jean Hugard (1872-1959) was an Australian professional magician. By the end...
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A collection of thoughtful and provocative reflections on how theatre practitioners think about and engage with audiences, as well as define and explore sites for performance. Through shared experience and ritual, live performance functions as a catalytic medium for progress and evolution. In the hands of artists and audience, the stage is set for the re-makings of commonwealth, or necessary revolution. Caridad Svich received a 2012 OBIE Award for...
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Tracey Warr's art texts have been developed as an 'embedded' writer, writing with rather than about artists. Throughout her various modes of art writing, she argues against binaries and focuses on the stream of consciousness, the more than human, and remoteness.Her essays tangle with punk art, art and ecology, endurance art, performance art, site-specific art, and women's art. Warr's writing engages with the making processes of contemporary artists,...
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As the days and months go by, I will be publishing a series of ebooks about the subjects that I have encountered for the last 35 years concerned with the business of music. This collection of ebooks will also be offered as a softback, hardback, and as an audio book. Each ebook will contain between 20-30 pages of necessary and critical subject matter that I feel anyone that needs to know or wants to learn critical information about the music business....
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"Heilige Mutter Gottes, erlöse Russland von Putin."
Im August 2012 wurden Maria Aljochina, Nadescha Tolokonnikowa und Jekaterina Samuzewitsch, drei Mitglieder des Punk-Kunstkollektivs Pussy Riot, wegen "Rowdytum aus religiös motiviertem Hass" zu zwei Jahren Straflager verurteilt - ein politischer Skandal, der ein riesiges Presse-Echo und weltweit Solidaritätsbekundungen hervorgerufen hat.
In dem vorliegenden Band wird bisher unveröffentlichtes...
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Card manipulation is an element of magical illusion concerning the creation of effects through sleight of hand techniques that involve playing cards. It is commonly employed in magical performances, particularly in street magic. This is volume III of Jean Hugard's fantastic handbook "Card Manipulations", which includes simple instructions for a variety of fantastic tricks. Jean Hugard was an Australian professional magician. By the end of his life...
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Stage fright, performance nerves, performance anxiety: are you terrified of stepping into the spotlight? Do you shake, get cold and sweaty hands, experience shallow and fast breathing, dry mouth, nausea or difficulty concentrating?
Packed with simple practical interventions, "Befriending Performance Anxiety" is your guide to achieving optimal performance states and finding support before, during and after each public event.
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How do the temporal features of sacred music affect social life in South Asia? Due to new time constraints in commercial contexts, devotional musicians in Bengal have adapted longstanding features of musical time linked with religious practice to promote their own musical careers.
“The Politics of Musical Time” traces a lineage of singers performing a Hindu devotional song known as kīrtan in the Bengal region of India over the past century to...
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As the days and months go by, I will be publishing a series of ebooks about the subjects that I have encountered for the last 35 years concerned with the business of music. This collection of eBooks will also be offered as a softback, hardback, and as an audio book. Each eBook will contain between 20-30 pages of necessary and critical subject matter that I feel anyone that needs to know or wants to learn critical information about the music business....
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"On October 3, 2000, 21-year-old pitcher Rick Ankiel took the mound for the St. Louis Cardinals in Game One of the National League division series. All was going well until Ankiel, who'd been lauded as the next Bob Gibson, threw a pitch that missed the mitt--wildly. Then he threw another. Then another, five in all. Slowly at first, then rapidly, his once-impenetrable pitcher's psyche crumbled. He would forever look back on that day as the day the...
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Brookstone brides volume 1
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After her father's death, Lizzy Brookstone, the star trick rider of the all-female Brookstone Wild West Extravaganza, loses interest in performing. What she longs for is a life with the Brookstone ranch foreman, Wesley DeShazer, the man who once broke her heart. Meanwhile, Jason Adler, son of the show's new financial partner, comes to help with the show, and Lizzy soon finds him vying for her affection. Ella Fleming is fleeing a forced engagement...
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World of Gustavo volume 1
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Gustavo is good at doing all sorts of ghostly things: walking through walls, making objects fly, and glowing in the dark. And he loves almost nothing more than playing beautiful music on his violin. But Gustavo is shy, and some things are harder for him to do, like getting in a line to buy eye scream or making friends with other monsters. Whenever he tries getting close to them, he realizes they just can't see him. Now that the Day of the Dead is...
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Anya Liftig grew up with her feet in two very different worlds. While her mother's upbringing was so rural that the other kids called her "holler rat," her father came from a comfortable, upper-middle-class Jewish family. Anya spent her childhood school years in Connecticut and her summers in the holler. Shaped by the experience, she would go on to win a scholarship to Yale and become an acclaimed artist, using provocative performances to explore...
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Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive.
"Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughter is an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, or self-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst free from external constraints. Taking laughter's...
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This book of monoloque is specifically for women who desire to broaden and explore their emotions to heighten their performances in the acting field.
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century... In 1834, desperate to create a better life for his family, small-time Connecticut businessman P. T. Barnum moved to New York City. With true entrepreneurial spirit and against all odds, he wowed audiences with his ensemble of musical spectacles, attractions and variety shows - often exploiting the vulnerable...
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This is the definitive guide to Counter-Tourism, except that Counter-Tourism has a low opinion of definitive guides. So it's more like an equivocal misguide. It includes dozens of detailed Counter-Tourism 'tactics' plus the thinking behind Counter-Tourism, its academic and philosophical background, and its roots in film, music and literature.
It also features more than 200 colour photographs, gathered by the author in the course of his counter-tourist...
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As the days and months go by, I will be publishing a series of ebooks about the subjects that I have encountered for the last 35 years concerned with the business of music. This collection of ebooks will also be offered as a softback, hardback, and as an audio book. Each ebook will contain between 20-30 pages of necessary and critical subject matter that I feel anyone that needs to know or wants to learn critical information about the music business....
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