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Author:   Bruno Forment ,  Christel Stalpaert
Publisher:   Leuven University Press
Imprint:   Leuven University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9789462700239

ISBN 10:   9462700230
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   06 May 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface A Twenty-First-Century Plea for Vintage, Heritage-Friendly Theater Bruno Forment Part I In Light of the Theatrical Fact Theaterfeuer or Sublime Horreur Operatic Pyrotechnics in the Eighteenth Century John A. Rice Mechanical Rules versus Abnormis Gratia Revaluing Gilbert Austin's Chironomia (1806) as a Source for Historical Acting Techniques Jed Wentz Playability A Reinvention of Contemporary Lighting Practice Drawing on Fred Bentham's 1930s Light Console Nick Hunt Part II Reviving the Operatic Past Divas, Arias, and Acrimony The Revolving Door of Musical Resources for London's Italian Opera Michael Burden The Misadventures of Artaserse (Turin, 1760) J. C. Bach's First Italian Opera from Production to Performance Margaret R. Butler The Mechanics of Magic (or Vice Versa) Sigrid T'Hooft and the Historically Informed Performance of Opera Bruno Forment Affective Education and Performative Space In Francesca Caccini's La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina (1625 and 2012) Christine Fischer Part III Theatrical Infrastructure Rebuilt, Endangered, and Lost Visualizing the Theatrical Past The Virtual Reconstruction of Theatrical Heritage Timothy De Paepe The 'Bourla' in Antwerp Machinery from 1834 on the Brink of Dismantling? Jerome Maeckelbergh O Tempora, O Mores A Discourse of Neglect and Destruction Frank Peeters Part IV From Performance to Archive An Empty Stage Assessing the Value of Theatrical Collections Riemer R. Knoop The Document as Event Assessing the Value of Digital Collections for Theatrical Heritage Thomas Crombez From the Conservation to the Production of Archives The Portail des Arts de la Marionnette, Reference and Vehicle for New Ambitions in the Cultural Heritage of the Performing Arts Raphaèle Fleury Beyond the Archive Safeguarding Theatrical Heritage: a Strategy for the Empowerment of Artistic Communities Maarten De Pourcq & Staf Vos Bibliography Contributors' biographies Index Gallery with color plates

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This book invites you to reassess our modern safe conventions and to add the magic component of immediacy. Heady stuff. Focus -; The Journal of the Association of Lighting Designers

Author Information

Bruno Forment is Postdoctoral Fellow (FWO) at Ghent University and Lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Christel Stalpaert is Professor of Theatre Studies at Ghent University.

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