Word: stagecrafter
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Richard Wagner envisioned something he called a Gesamtkunstwerk -- an all- encompassing work of art -- that would meld music, poetry, drama, dance and stagecraft into one unified, glorious spectacle. The Minimalist composer Philip Glass, 57, has been inviting comparison with Wagner ever since the 1976 debut of his four-hour epic Einstein on the Beach, Wagnerian in length and scope if not in idiom; and the Wagnerian ideal has been evident in much of his later work as well -- in Hydrogen Jukebox's marriage of Minimalism to the poetry of Allen Ginsberg (1990), and in 1,000 Airplanes on the Roof...
...classic dignity with a sharp sense of the vernacular. Gravity, surprise, curiosity, slight bewilderment -- a whole repertoire of expression is set forth in their faces and bodies, and by the time one's eye has stopped traversing the rhythmic garland of their gestures, one realizes what a master of stagecraft Poussin...
...easy to say what's wrong with Show Boat, the seminal 1927 musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II that steamed onto Broadway this week in an $8.5 million blaze of spectacular stagecraft. Based on Edna Ferber's novel about a floating theater on the Mississippi River, the show has always been too long and thematically sprawling. The most engaging characters, the light- skinned black Julie and her white husband Steve, virtually disappear before the intermission, while the coincidence-plagued second act rambles episodically from 1889 to 1927. Over the years, some critics have found the treatment of blacks...
...born, Doisneau began his career as a photographer while in his 20s, lending his talents to the Resistance during the Nazi Occupation. He achieved prominence as a fashion photographer after the war and international recognition with his portraits of the "little drama in everyday life." Yet there was some stagecraft behind those supposedly candid moments: in a legal dispute last year, Doisneau acknowledged that he had paid two models to pose for his famous The Kiss at the Hotel de Ville. Whether that detracts from its perfect evocation of a certain time, a certain place, a certain sensibility...
...stage illustrate the ballet's social nature and its lack of drama and psychological development. Even the much anticipated kiss occurs in Aurora's bed chamber with her parents, the King and Queen, by her side! Still, The Sleeping Beauty combines rare moments of stunning dancing with magical stagecraft for an enjoyable evening of theater and dance...