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The Contemporary Circus Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Funding, Producing, Organizing and Touring for the 21st Century is a guide to creating theatrical performance shows, built on interviews with dozens of creators who have made shows-big and small-throughout their careers. The author's circus background is used as an example to practical steps for any freelance company's operations: from applying for funding, building a team, planning workshops and residencies, to characteristics of successful shows. These lessons are applicable to circus, dance and theater as well as most performing arts. Whether it's your first foray into creating your own major endeavor-or you've got a couple of creations under your belt-you're sure to find advice to improve your process and bring your dream show to life. Includes a foreword by Shana Carroll, co-founder of Les 7 doigts de la main (The Seven Fingers).

This is a facsimile edition of William Pittenger's 1897 book Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way. This edition also includes an all-new foreword which places the book and its author in context. Toasts is considered by many to be one of the most important books on public address in its day. It talks about speech writing and preparation as a unique discipline for swaying minds, rather than a simple way to fit in as many contemporary books discuss.Pittenger had a remarkable life, rekindling his devotion to the Christian religion while held captive in a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp. Upon his release, he taught elocution in Philadelphia before moving to California to continue his ministry. This book contains many of his thoughts and suggestions on elocution as a science, and gives an interesting look at the thoughts and opinions of Pittenger himself--the man whose Civil War memoir inspired Buster Keaton's The General.

Walker's Manly Exercises was written by Donald Walker in the 19th century. The book is a comprehensive guide to physical exercises and sports that were popular at the time. It contains detailed instructions on how to perform various exercises, including rowing, sailing, riding, driving, racing, hunting, shooting, and other manly sports.The book was important because it emphasized the importance of physical exercise and its benefits. It was written at a time when people were becoming increasingly sedentary, and it was believed that physical exercise was essential for good health. The book was aimed at wealthy readers who lived sedentary lifestyles and provided them with a guide to physical activity that could help them improve their health and well-being.Today, people should read this book because it provides a fascinating insight into the history of physical exercise and sports. It is also a reminder of the importance of physical activity for good health and well-being. The book contains a wealth of information on various exercises and sports that are still popular today, such as rowing, sailing, and hunting. It is a great resource for anyone who is interested in physical activity and wants to learn more about its history and benefits. It is also the first Western book that included detailed notes about the practice of Indian club swinging, a juggling discipline that still exists to this day.This is an important book that provides a fascinating insight into the history of physical exercise and sports. It is a reminder of the importance of physical activity for good health and well-being, and it is a great resource for anyone who is interested in physical activity and wants to learn more about its history and benefits.

"Vaudeville Wit" includes hundreds of jokes and routines from performers from the 1910s-1920s. Originally published in 1927 by Shrewesbury (Chicago), this book gives an incredible window to American humor at the turn of the century.

Originally published in the 1890s by the Wehman Brothers, this book contains a multitude of jokes cribbed directly from the Vaudeville stage. Street literature produced by companies like Wehman offer us a unique look at popular entertainment of the day.

This compendium comprises three individual research studies that examine contortion and practices of body flexibility in East Asia, namely China, Mongolia and Japan. It explores the performance art forms Chinese contortion, Mongolian contortion and the Kakubei Jishi lion dance of the Niigata prefecture in Japan which utilizes body flexibility. Common points of discussion in these research studies are the investigation of the history and genesis of these art forms and how they developed in various political and social dynamics. This work further offers vast knowledge about crucial elements such as the artist's training processes, their training environment, the development of aesthetics, symbolism in costuming and body movements, religious themes, mythology and natural phenomena, and costume designs. This compendium includes data from a wide range of literature, material evidence, oral history, current media reports, and considers recent work in anthropology, archaeology, and political history. It, therefore, offers the interested reader, the scholar, the contortionist and contortion practitioner a substantial treatise about contortionism and practices of body flexibility.

As with dance, so with juggling-the moment that the performer finishes the routine, their act ceases to exist beyond the memory of the audience. There is no permanent record of what transpired, so studying the ancient roots of juggling is fraught with difficulty. Using the records that do exist, juggling appears to have emerged around the world in cultures independent of one another in the ancient past. Paintings in Egypt from 2000 BCE show jugglers engaged in performance. Stories from the island nation of Tonga place juggling's creation with their goddess of the underworld-a figure who has guarded a cave since time immemorial. Juggling games and rituals are pervasive in isolated Inuit cultures in northern Canada and Greenland. Though the earliest representation of juggling is 4,000 years old, the practice is surely much older-in the same way that humans were doubtlessly singing and dancing long before the first bone flute was created. This book is an attempt to catalogue this tangible history of juggling in human culture. It is the story of juggling, represented in art and writing from around the world, across time. Although much has been written about modern jugglers-specific performers, their props, and their routines-little has been said about those who first developed the craft. As juggling enters a golden age in the internet era, Juggling: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages offers a look into the past-to the origins of our art form.