Sentences with phrase «using theatrical props»

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Using theatrical elements like props, sets, and the stage, she creates work that revolves around practical jokes, gags, and the absurd.

London based artist Grace Schwindt is known for working with film, live performance and sculpture, often using theatrical sets and props for performances.

Painters including Watteau once reimagined these actors in paint, but here Sworn uses costumes, props, stage furniture and videos to stage a strange theatrical tableau.

It features: a series of black - and - white photographs of elderly actors by Liu Zheng that play with conventions of ethnographic and opera photography; two videos by Chen Qiulin that make use of traditional opera characters to respond to changes wrought by the Three Gorges Dam; The Forbidden City (Zijincheng) by Liu Wei, a lyrical video of theatrical «glove puppets» (budai kuilei) shown publicly for the first time; and videos by Cui Xiuwen that connect to opera in more oblique ways, through performative elements and symbolic props, gestures, and costumes.

Grace Schwindt uses theatrical sets for video and performance works with minimal architectural elements and props to mark a location, for example, a family home.

The term Arte Povera was actually borrowed from the theoretical performance manual, Towards a Poor Theater, written by the Polish theatrical director Jerzy Grotowski, who called for the removal of excess props and ornament (the moneyed theater of spectacle) from the stage to the point that the actors used only their natural gifts to activate meaning with facial expressions, voice, gesture, and acrobatic movements (hence materially «poor»).