The third case study presents Le Noir. It is an Australian based circus company. It is a contemporary circus that features aerial acts, musicians, acrobats, balancing and the wheel of death. The concept of Le Noir is based on the best performers in the world gather to create an intimate style show where the audience is inches away watching the performance on stage. Part of the concept is to make the audience experience the show with the help of special effects ("Le Noir”).
Description
Company: Le Noir
Genre: Contemporary circus
Show type: resident show
Date of premiere: 2012
Location: Marina Bay Sands, MasterCard theatres, Singapore
Area: Around 4000 sqm
Set and Technical information
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The entire set is divided into sector of rings. The central area is where the stage is located. The audience has more than a 200 degree view and, it is more interactive. The seating utilized for the stage contains bleachers located from the back and, then foldable chairs as you get closer to the stage. Since the stage is designed in form of rings, there are 6 exits located in every quarter of the space. Since the space is not the typical theater space the backstage area is located at the sides of the performer’s entrance area. In addition too, there are room spaces outside the tents for rehearsal space ("Croatia Circus Fans”).
The fifth case study presents Cirque Eloize. It is a contemporary circus that features breakdancing, juggling, acrobats and aerialists. The concept of Cirque Eloize is based on the urban lifestyle. It is set in a futuristic city. The show is based on the collision of two groups and, how they battle and form alliances. The entire performance is a mashup of kinetic energy that includes urban dance, street performance, electronic music, graffiti art, video projections, hip hop culture, circus arts, and gymnastics ("Cirque Eloize
All events will take place in the main ring. Warm-up for events will take place in ring number 2. The medical staff will have a main tent with treatment tables in between the two rings. EMS will have an ambulance for emergency transportation, waiting by ring 1 in the medical tent area.
Creativity of this production is the reason for the success. Their expertise in the field proves that they were qualified for this wonderful production. The theater environment of this play was thrust structure, which allows them to innovation stunning method to display all of scenes.
Cirque Du Soleil’s show in Downtown Disney is a show that I have wanted to see for a very long time. The creative marketing that I have seen has made me very interested in the shows. Many of my friends and colleagues have already seen the show and have highly recommended it. “Cirque du Soleil is one of the rare companies that utterly redefine their industries. It takes the circus’s raw materials – trapeze artists, contortionists, strong men, clowns – combines them with surreal costumes, nonstop New Age music, and dazzling stagecraft, and then ties it all together with a vaguely profound theme like “ a tribute to the nomadic soul” or “a phantasmagoria of urban life”” (Kreitner, 231).
Theatre is a collaboration of various forms of fine art which utilizes live performances presenting before the audience on a stage at a specific place within a scheduled time (Dugdale 10). The message is communicated through a combination of various channels like songs, speech gestures or dances. Stagecraft skills are combined with elements of art to make the performance more physical and near to real life experience. Theatre is categorized broadly into drama, musical theatre, comedy, tragedy and improvisation. Any form of these accepts integration of various production modes and collective reception to influence the artwork being presented. As a result of this cooperation of items in the theatre
The story begins with our protagonist, eleven-year-old noir film fanatic Alex, she discovers that her neighbor has gone missing. Clues lead Alex to locate her neighbor, and to rescue him Alex and her acquaintance nine-year-old Tubs must the urban area of their town. The story resolves with Alex locating her neighbor within the home of a
Through its dynamic directing and acting the show captured the audience and took us to the 1920s City of Chicago. All performs in the production were wearing costumes of black color and the style in the 1920s, along with a simple orchestra in the background, this made clear the setting in which the story takes place. The production is unlike others in that the whole production is made of many smaller simpler acts based of the theater genre called “vaudeville acts”.
What is Film Noir? Film Noir literally means “Black Film” in French, the French coined this after World War 2 when they were finally able to view American films again after the war and they found that these films were quite different than what they used to be. These films had a completely different atmosphere, a different emotion that was displayed. Film Noir had a very distrustful air about its nature, lacking integrity. Every scene was cloaked in darkness and the plot had a looming sense of despair (TheBook). The war left America in dark times and Film Noir was one of the ways from them to express it.
Many people from different countries across the world have been coming to United States, including Austrian director Billy Wilder. He directed many film with different genres including Film Noir. Film Noir translates to “Dark Film,” the name was given by the French after watching Hollywood crime thrillers that began to show after World War II. These films typically had dark lighting style closely related to those in German Expressionist films. However, Film Noir borrows its form from influences of major Hollywood popular genres, using themes that were related to social context and civilian life in the United States. Two films that demonstrate how Film Noir was influenced by Hollywood and the social context in America include Sunset Boulevard (1950) and Ace in the Hole (1951) both directed and written by Billy Wilder.
Introduction The art form of theatre can be traced far back several centuries, with its origin not properly identified. We can find many different styles of it in civilizations from the Ancient Greeks, Ancient Romans, Ancient Chinese and more. It has developed through many styles in order to become what we see on stage today. As new technologies began to emerge in the late 20th century, lights, sound and visualization became increasingly important to theatre.
According to Schaeffer, F., Rome did not fall because of barbarians, but they felled because they had no sufficient base and gradually became disintegrated (1976). I agree with Schaeffer, one reason being the Romans believed in man-made gods. Their gods were identical to themselves, they depended on the same society that the Romans depended on. “Actually, the gods in Greek and Roman thinking were like men and women larger than life, but not basically different from human men and women” (Schaeffer, 1976, pg. 21). Not only did Rome worship false gods, but they were unstable and selfish. They constantly change to adhere to the new norm; their thinking was not their own thinking. However, I do believe that the Romans got an idea and were creative
I have to say right from the word go that this is classic film noir in true Hollywood style, and as detective films go might just be the best acted, best scripted and best directed whodunnit you will ever have the privilege of watching. Bogart plays private eye Phillip Marlowe, hired by a dying old man with two beautiful, but uncontrollable daughters.
This paper posits that the media product of film noir produced by Hollywood between the 1940’s and 1950’s exemplifies a Gramscian approach to ideological views of America’s post war societal expectations. Film noir, basing its content of crime, corruption, sex, and power found an acceptance with American audiences who could relate directly to the tensions felt by the genre’s cadre of characters. As a result, the requirement for Gramsci’s theory of ideology and popular culture exists through the consent of audiences of film noir’s themes and provides an example of a hegemonic ideology that is won. This paper will provide the reader with the social and cultural context in which film noir existed, link Gramscian theory to its political economy production purpose, and include a semiotic analysis of the complex themes and coding of film noir, specifically focusing on the use of female sexuality.
Every culture has taboos, a cultural standard of shared values and appropriate practices. They can cover behavior, clothing choice, food, sexual activity, even social perception. These cultural rules ensure a cohesive environment where nobody feels uneasy about the actions of others. Yet, some taboos get challenged through individuals rebelling or using the breaking of a taboo to establish dominance, or another social group disregarding another cultures taboo even though it could lead to social punishment.
In the words of Gay McAuley, “for an activity to be regarded as a performance, it must involve the live presence of the performers and those witnessing it…” (McAuley, 2009, cited in Schechner, 2013, pp.38). This statement recognises the importance of both the actor and the audience for something to truly function as a performance. In addition, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones highlights the significance of the theatrical space and how it can influence an audience stating that “on entering a theatre of any kind, a spectator walks into a specific space, one that is designed to produce a certain reaction or series of responses” (Llewellyn-Jones, 2002, pp.3). The relationship between actor, audience and theatrical space is no less important today than it was at the time of theatre during the Spanish Golden Age and the creation of Commedia dell’arte in Italy. Despite being very close geographically with theatre thriving for both in the same era, sources that explore the social, cultural and historical context of these countries and the theatre styles will bring to light the similarities and differences. This essay will analyse the staging, the behaviour of the audience as well as the challenges the actors faced, and how this directly influenced the relationship between actor, audience and theatrical space.
Since my sophomore year in high school, I have feed the homeless. It started off as a 20% project for my English class, but I have grown to enjoy it. When I first started, my group and I went to a park in Downtown San Jose and gave the homeless a sandwich, a granola bar, and a water bottle. We did this for three months. Since then my friends and I have gone every month, on a Saturday, but we do not just give them food. I switch up every month on what to give them. We either make a care package, that contains beef jerky, water, sunscreen, lotion, trail mix, and band-aid, or a sandwich with a granola bar, and a water. Most people assume that homeless people are lazy, mean, rude, or even crazy. For the most part that is not true. The people