e-Book Highlights: Chinese Opera : The Actor's Craft
25-10-2019
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Chinese Opera : The Actor's Craft
Author:Wang-Ngai Siu and Peter Lovrick
Publisher:Hong Kong University Press, 2013
Source: ProQuest Ebook Central
Introduction:
Chinese opera embraces over 360 different styles of theatre that make one of the richest performance arts in the world. It combines music, speech, poetry, mime, acrobatics, stage fighting, vivid face-painting and exquisite costumes. This book uses breath-taking images of Chinese opera in performance by Hong Kong photographer Siu Wang-Ngai to illustrate and explain Chinese opera stage technique. The book explores costumes, gestures, mime, acrobatics, props and stage techniques.
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