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Applied anatomy of aerial arts : an illustrated guide to strength, flexibility, training, and injury preventionSpecifically designed for aerialists—including those who do trapeze, silks, and other aerial arts— Applied Anatomy of Aerial Arts is an invaluable resource for those who want to optimize their performance and train safely.
Using a biomechanical and movement-based approach, Emily Scherb, a physical therapist who specializes in the care, treatment, and education of circus performers—explains the anatomical rationale for progressions of learning and demonstrates simple movements to achieve the coordination, muscular control, strength, and fitness to hang with correct form, how to progress from hanging into a pull up, an inversion, and beyond with a strong center, precise muscle sequencing, and ease of movement.
Aerialists will learn how bones, joints, muscles, and soft tissues allow for specific movements and gain an appreciation for concepts of proximal stability.
This full-color illustrated guide lays a solid foundation for beginners and advanced students with a wealth of insights into their own performance as well as refreshers on fundamentals in warm ups and conditioning. It explains how to structure a training session, how to care for injuries, and best practices for basic self first aid. [editor summary]
Arts du cirque à l'école maternelle : avec Touminus la puceLes arts du cirque, dans les programmes de l’école, relèvent à la fois des activités physiqueset des activités artistiques. Les unités d’apprentissage présentées s’organisent autour des trois activités accessibles: jonglage, acrobatie, équilibre. Elles permettent de développer aussi bien les habiletés motrices (aller vers l’exploit : la difficulté, la maîtrise, la performance) que le jeu d’acteur (introduire un effet esthétique pour toucherle spectateur, le faire rêver, ou produire un effet comique pour le faire rire).
Le conte, dans lequel l’héroïne, Touminus la puce, s’initie avec l’aide de ses amis à la pratique des activités circassiennes, sert de support aux apprentissages, les enfants pouvant aisément s’identifier aux personnages de l’histoire et s’approprier leurs actions et leurs rôles respectifs.
Avec ce nouvel opus de l’équipe EPS des Bouches-du-Rhône, vous avez les clefs pour réussir vos séances d’arts du cirque en maternelle. [résumé de l'éditeur]
Making solo performanceFocusing specifically on solo making and performing, this unique and exciting text allows the experts to speak for themselves. In interviews with Misri Dey, six recognised solo performers working across a range of performance genres – including theatre, dance, live and performance art, site-specific performance, music video and film – provide insightful and practical strategies for creative making and performing processes. Interviewees include Bryony Kimmings, Tim Etchells, Bobby Baker, Mike Pearson, Wendy Houstoun and Nigel Charnock.
Engaging and accessible, this is an invaluable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of Theatre, Performance and Acting, scholars, lecturers and performance practitioners. It will also appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Women's Studies, Creative Writing and the Visual Arts. [editor summary]
The art of collectivity : social circus and the cultural politics of a post-neoliberal visionAmidst epidemics of youth alienation and cultural polarization, community-based artistic practices are sprouting up around the world as antidotes to policies of austerity and social exclusion. Rejecting the radical individualism of the neoliberal era, many artistic projects promote collectivity and togetherness in navigating challenges and constructing shared futures.
The Art of Collectivity is about how one such creative social program deployed this approach in service of a post-neoliberal vision. Focusing on a national social circus initiative launched by a newly elected Ecuadorean government to help actualize its “citizens' revolution,” the book explores the intersection between global cultural politics, participatory arts, collective health, and social transformation. The authors include scholars and practitioners of community arts, humanities, social sciences, and health sciences from the Global North and Global South. Sensitive to hierarchical binaries such as research/practice, north/south, and art/science, they work together to provide a multifaceted analysis of the way cultural politics shape policy, pedagogy, and aesthetic sensibilities, as well as their socio-cultural and health-related effects.
The largest study of social circus to date, combining detailed quantitative, qualitative, and arts-based research, The Art of Collectivity is a timely contribution to the study of cultural policies, critical pedagogies, collective art-making, and community development. [editor summary]
I am a body of landf poetry is a place to question, I Am a Body of Land by Shannon Webb-Campbell is an attempt to explore a relationship to poetic responsibility and accountability, and frame poetry as a form of re-visioning. Here Webb-Campbell revisits the text of her earlier work Who Took My Sister? to examine her self, her place and her own poetic strategies. These poems are efforts to decolonize, unlearn, and undoo harm. Reconsidering individual poems and letters, Webb-Campbell's confessional writing circles back, and challenges what it means to ask questions of her own settler-Indigenous identity, belonging, and attempts to cry out for community, and call in with love. [editor summary]
Un prof heureux peut changer le mondeUn livre événement : le premier manuel de méditation destiné aux enseignants et appliqué au milieu éducatif. Dans une société en perpétuelle mutation, où tout va de plus en plus vite, l'enseignement et l'éducation sont devenus des enjeux cruciaux. Comment transmettre ? Comment aider les nouvelles générations à transformer le monde de demain ?À ces défis colossaux, la pratique de la pleine conscience apporte une réponse à la fois simple et précieuse. Pensé par Thich Nhat Hanh, le grand maître du bouddhisme, et les éducateurs du Village des Pruniers, composé d'exercices de méditation faciles à suivre, de conseils, de propositions d'activités, ce manuel guidera les enseignants dans leur pratique de la pleine conscience, au sein de leur propre vie mais aussi dans leur classe et auprès de leurs élèves.Lumineux et inspirant, cet ouvrage ouvre la voie vers une éducation bienveillante et heureuse, et vers un monde meilleur.
The other within : the genius of deformity in myth, culture & psycheDaniel Deardorff knows otherness firsthand. This highly regarded “singer” in the old sense of that word—musician, storyteller, maker of ritual—had polio as an infant and has used a wheelchair most of his life, giving him a lived perspective that deeply informs his views on this subject. In The Other Within, Deardorff starts with a radical notion: to disclose the blessings of outsiderhood, the many gifts and insights contributed to culture by the marginalized and outcast. Unlike studies that stress the plight of the outsider, this one asserts that to be cast down and out of the consensus-worldview affords a difficult yet significant opportunity: to encounter oneself, not as defined by society but as one actually is. An eloquent spokesman for “the man or woman on the weird road,” Deardorff presents dozens of powerful examples from myth and literature to illustrate his message in a richly allusive, complex series of essays. Drawing on the work of mythologians, poets, psychologists, and scholars, The Other Within takes readers on an initiatory journey, uncovering the roots of human identity and imagination and offering insights–including “trickster wisdom”—revealing the mythic underpinnings of everyday life. [editor summary]
Jaune : histoire d'une couleurAujourd'hui, en Europe, le jaune est une couleur peu présente dans la vie quotidienne et guère sollicitée par le monde des symboles. Il n'en a pas toujours été ainsi. Les peuples de l'Antiquité voyaient en lui une couleur presque sacrée, celle de la lumière, de la chaleur et de la prospérité. Les Grecs et les Romains lui accordaient une place importante dans les rituels religieux, tandis que les Celtes et les Germains l'associaient à l'or et à l'immortalité. Le déclin du jaune date du Moyen Âge qui en fait une couleur ambivalente. D'un côté, le mauvais jaune, celui de la bile amère et du soufre démoniaque : il est signe de mensonge, d'avarice, de félonie, parfois de maladie ou de folie. De l'autre, le bon jaune, celui de l'or, du miel et des blés mûrs : il est signe de pouvoir, de joie, d'abondance.
Toutefois, à partir du XVIe siècle, la place du jaune dans la culture matérielle ne cesse de reculer. La Réforme protestante, la Contre-Réforme catholique, plus tard les « valeurs bourgeoises » du XIXe siècle le tiennent en peu d'estime. Même si la science le range au nombre des couleurs primaires, sa symbolique reste équivoque. De nos jours encore, le jaune verdâtre est ressenti comme désagréable ou dangereux car il porte en lui quelque chose de maladif ou de toxique ; au contraire, le jaune qui se rapproche de l'orangé passe pour tonique, joyeux et bienfaisant, à l'image des fruits de cette couleur.
Abondamment illustré, Jaune est le cinquième ouvrage d'une série commencée en 2000 et consacrée à l'histoire des couleurs en Europe, de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Il fait suite à Bleu. Histoire d'une couleur (2000), Noir. Histoire d'une couleur (2008), Vert. Histoire d'une couleur (2013) et Rouge. Histoire d'une couleur (2016). [résumé de l'éditeur]
Craft A secret history of craft told through lost and overlooked texts that illuminate our understanding of current art practice.
“Craft” is a contested concept in art history and a vital category through which to understand contemporary art. Through craft, materials, techniques, and tools are investigated and their histories explored in order to reflect on the politics of labor and on the extraordinary complexity of the made world around us. This anthology offers an ethnography of craft, surveying its shape-shifting identities in the context of progressive art and design through writings by artists and makers as well as poetry, fiction, anthropology, and sociology. It maps a secret history of craft through lost and overlooked texts that consider pedagogy, design, folk art, the factory, and new media in ways that illuminate our understanding of current art practice.
Recently, the idea of craft has been employed strategically: to confront issues of gender or global development, to make a stand against artistic academicism, or to engage with making processes—some distinctly archaic—employed to suggest the abject and the everyday. Craft activism, or craftivism, suggests a new political purpose for the handmade. Deep anxieties drive today's technophilia, and artists, designers, and makers turn such anxieties into a variety of dynamic engagements. The contributors' reflections on new technologies and materials, lost and found worlds of handwork, and the politics of work all throw light on craft as process, product, and ideology. Craft will serve as a vital resource for understanding technologies, materials, techniques, and tools through the lens of craft in contemporary art. [editor summary]
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