PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This research has two objectives. First, it analyzes the meaning of pencug dance in relation to the artists’ history, social background, and cultural context. Second, it explores how functional art theory can be applied to study pencug performances. Pencug dance is an improvisational form performed in Karawang-style Jaipongan. It is unique because, although performed by female dancers, it exhibits a masculine charac…

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A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by literary theory, which is the philosophical analysis of literature's goals and methods. Although the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not always, and have not always been, theorists.

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REVIEW: HISTORICAL ‘INDECENT’ IS RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW AT GABLESTAGE Written By Christine Dolen January 28, 2019 at 4:35 PM Passion, courage and tragedy are at the heart of Paula Vogel’s “Indecent,” a stunning play about another play, Sholem Asch’s “God of Vengeance.” Produced at Yale Repertory Theatre in 2015, off-Broadway in 2016 and on Broadway in 2017, the drama about a classic of Yiddish theater and the artists…