Sujets :
Sémiotique et arts du cirque
Arts du cirque - Philosophie et théorie
Langage du corps
Représentation du corps circassien
Communication visuelle
Arts du cirque - Aspect social
Relation de l'artiste avec le public

Dépouillement du document :
1-The production of circus space
The constraints of nomadic life
The spatial algorithm
Squaring the circle
Olli and Illi: playing with space and desire

2-The time of the circus. Cognitive and emotional dimensions of acrobatics and other circus acts
Circus acts as texts
A brain to brain affair
Another kind of time
The timeless tools of time
Clowns at work: the melodic structure of social interactions
Concluding remarks: circus time and cognition

3-In what sense is a circus animal performing?
Meaning, text, and context
The civilized animal
A symphony of signs: the art of deceit and the pitfalls of self-deception

4-Horses, feathers: from tacit knowledge to circus metaphors
A theoritical prelude
Birds, horses, and feathers
Horses, ostriches, and chorus girls
Circus horses in times of cultural changes

5-Circus and cycles
Horses and bicyle: preliminary analogies
History, cultural evolution, and the circus
The introduction of the bicycle in circus spectacles
Pondering the strange history of the bicycle
The semiotics of the bicycle
The bicycle enters the kingdom of the horse

6-The pyramid and the wheel: the visual discourse of circus acrobatics
The representation of law and anarchy
The language of the pyramid
The Tangier troupe: from order to chaos and back
The stagings of acrobatics as social metaphors
Revolution(s) on a trampoline
Triumph and tragedy: the semiotics of fear and danger
Under the semiotic magnifying lens
Gender economy and tacit rules: norms and transgressions in the air
The predictive power of semiotics
Order and chaos on wheels

7-The logic of clown faces
The structure of European clowns' make-up
From structuralism to biosemiotics
Icon of biomorphology
White faces and white patches: the management of leucosignals in clwon make-up
A cross-cultural probe of clown make-up and it's transformations
Expanding the scope: toward a global semiotic theory of clown make-up

8-Incident, accident, failure: life and death at the circus
The representation of negative experience in performance
A science of the individual
Toward a model of negative experience
When failure means success: the staging of a negative experience
The semiotic dissection of George Carl's comic act
Anatomy of a negative masterpiece
Subjective vs. objective situations
A lady in danger

9-There’s no business like show business: the marketing of performance
Marketing the performing arts
The golden rules of performance
How to capture an audience
The power of stories

10-The researcher as spectator: The pragmatics of circus performances
Toward a theory of live performances
The predicaments of description
The rules of performance
How to make a verbal copy
From rules opf performance to rules of description

Collection : Bibliothèque de l'École nationale de cirque

Localisation : Bibliothèque

Cote : 791.301 4 B762s 2010

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