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Performing Arts

Under performing arts we understand all those forms which use the artist's own body, face and presence as a medium. These include dance, music, opera, theater, and circus arts.

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Hurt McDermott
Aristophanes' Birds by Hurt McDermott
Hurt McDermott's adaptation of Aristophanes' text is a delight, its breezily contemporary tone easily comprehended by academics and ignorami alike. Literary allusions ("You don't expect me to believe that someone could write an interesting play about The Clouds, do you?") abound, side-by-side with casual colloquialisms—"Trying to kill a bird with two stones, huh?"—and flat-out puns ("I'd forget my head if it weren't attached to the body politic."). - Mary Shen Barnidge, Windy City Times
Most ancient Greek plays are brought into English by Greek scholars. The problem is that Greek scholars...
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