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Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

This is the first book exploring the concept of home advantage (HA) the well-known beneficial effect that players and teams derive from performing at home in all sports throughout the world. Despite the fact that the existence of HA dates back to the origins of organized sport in the late 19th century its root causes and how they operate and interact with each other are still unclear and remain the topic of intense research involving many disciplines all with the potential objective of improving team and individual performance. This book covers a broad review of HA divided into three different sections: (i) Section 1 focuses on the theory of HA in sport (the concept of this phenomenon its quantification and factors supposedly associated with the HA are explored; (ii) Section 2 analyses the effects of HA in sports related to both male and female athletes in relation to tactics and strategies fans referees travel situational variables and the home disadvantage; and (iii) Section 3 studies the HA as it applies to specific sports worldwide such as outdoor sports (football rugby cricket and Australian Football) indoor sports (basketball futsal handball water polo and volleyball) US professional sports individual sports racket sports combat sports minor sports disabled sports and the Olympic Games. This book has been written in cooperation with top leading experts in this field worldwide. The book offers a better understanding of the HA effect for MSc and PhD students athletes coaches performance analysts sport psychologists sociologists sport scientists and sport journalists. | Home Advantage in Sport Causes and the Effect on Performance

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Performance Studies: The Basics

Teacher Representations in Dramatic Text and Performance Portraying the Teacher on Stage

The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz

The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz

The violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) is considered among the most influential performers in history and still maintains a strong following among violinists around the world. Dario Sarlo contributes significantly to the growing field of analytical research into recordings and the history of performance style. Focussing on Heifetz and his under-acknowledged but extensive performing relationship with the Bach solo violin works (BWV 1001-1006) Sarlo examines one of the most successful performing musicians of the twentieth century along with some of the most frequently performed works of the violin literature. The book proposes a comprehensive method for analysing and interpreting the legacies of prominent historical performers in the wider context of their particular performance traditions. The study outlines this research framework and addresses how it can be transferred to related studies of other performers. By building up a comprehensive understanding of multiple individual performance styles it will become possible to gain deeper insight into how performance style develops over time. The investigation is based upon eighteen months of archival research in the Library of Congress’s extensive Jascha Heifetz Collection. It draws on numerous methods to examine what and how Heifetz played why he played that way and how that way of playing compares to other performers. The book offers much insight into the ’music industry’ between 1915 and 1975 including touring programming audiences popular and professional reception and recording. The study concludes with a discussion of Heifetz’s unique performer profile in the context of violin performance history. | The Performance Style of Jascha Heifetz

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Church Music Through the Lens of Performance

The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography

The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

Representing China on the Historical London Stage From Orientalism to Intercultural Performance

Lessons from our Students Meditations on Performance Pedagogy

The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners Volume One

Real Animals on the Stage

Foundations for Performance Training Skills for the Actor-Dancer

Foundations for Performance Training Skills for the Actor-Dancer

Foundations for Performance Training: Skills for the Actor-Dancer explores the physical emotional theoretical and practical components of performance training in order to equip readers with the tools needed to successfully advance in their development as artists and entertainers. Each chapter provides a fresh perspective on subjects that students of acting and dance courses encounter throughout their training as performing artists. Topics include: Equity diversity and inclusion in performance Mind/body conditioning for training rehearsal and performance Developing stage presence and spatial awareness Cultivating motivation and intention in performance Expanding repertoire and broadening skillset for performance Auditioning for film and stage Developing theatrical productions This book also offers experiential exercises journal writing prompts and assignments to engage readers enrich their learning experience and deepen their exploration of the material described in each chapter. Readers will grow as performing artists as they analyze the principles of both acting and dance and discover how deeply the two art forms are intertwined. An excellent resource for students of acting musical theatre and dance courses Foundations for Performance Training encourages a strong foundation in creative analysis technique artistic expression and self-care to cultivate excellence in performance. | Foundations for Performance Training Skills for the Actor-Dancer

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The Problems of Viewing Performance Epistemology and Other Minds

Innovation & Digital Theatremaking Rethinking Theatre with “The Show Must Go Online”

Innovation & Digital Theatremaking Rethinking Theatre with “The Show Must Go Online”

Innovation & Digital Theatremaking introduces a blueprint for how to think differently about Theatre how to respond creatively in uncertainty and how to wield whatever resources are available to create new work in new ways. In 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic had a colossal impact on theatre across the world. At a time when even the wealthiest and best-supported theatre companies in the world ceased all operations and shuttered their stages the theatre company The Show Must Go Online (TSMGO) forged its way into a new frontier: the highly accessible digital landscape of online performance. In this book TSMGO creator Robert Myles and Valerie Clayman Pye explore the success of TSMGO from a practical standpoint offering insights and strategies that can help theatremakers at every level respond proactively to the future of Theatre in the digital era. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of the creative process and concludes with take-homes so readers can learn how to innovate rapidly undertake research and development in order to create their own models and cultivate their own theatrical communities. Written for theatremakers directors producers and creatives of all levels of experience this book will help readers to think critically and creatively about theatre and theatre pedagogues to understand how to train their students for the theatre of the future. | Innovation & Digital Theatremaking Rethinking Theatre with “The Show Must Go Online”

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Landscape Performance Ian McHarg’s ecological planning in The Woodlands Texas

Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century Vol 2: The Performance and Persistence of Autocracies

Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century Vol 2: The Performance and Persistence of Autocracies

Authoritarianism research has evolved into one of the fastest growing research fields in comparative politics. The newly awakened interest in autocratic regimes goes hand in hand with a lack of systematic research on the results of the political and substantive policy performance of variants of autocratic regimes. The contributions in this second volume of Comparing Autocracies are united by the assumption that the performance of political regimes and their persistence are related. Furthermore autocratic institutions and the specific configurations of elite actors within authoritarian regime coalitions induce dictators to undertake certain policies and that different authoritarian institutions are therefore an important piece of the puzzle of government performance in dictatorships. Based on these two prepositions the contributions explore the differences between autocracies and democracies as well as between different forms of non-democratic regimes in regard to their outcome performance in selected policy fields; how political institutions affect autocratic performance and persistence; whether policy performance matter for the persistence of authoritarian rule; and what happens to dictators once autocratic regimes fall. This book is an amalgam of articles from the journals Democratization Contemporary Politics and Politische Vierteljahresschrift. | Comparing autocracies in the early Twenty-first Century Vol 2: The Performance and Persistence of Autocracies

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The Psychology of Golf Performance under Pressure

The Psychology of Golf Performance under Pressure

The Psychology of Golf Performance under Pressure offers contemporary research-informed information regarding the key psychological factors affecting golf development and performance under pressure. Through the authors’ substantive expertise – all of whom are notable scholars and/or practitioners in the field of golf psychology – the text provides a highly accessible “real world” application of theory to practice through the provision of evidence-based guidance regarding how to maximise golf performance under pressure. Golf is a sport that has embraced sport psychology with many of the highest ranked players in the world (male and female) openly working with a sport psychologist and advocating their importance. As a result an increasing number of high-profile practitioners are working full-time within the sport around the world encouraging trainee sport psychology practitioners to pursue their career within golf. Accordingly there is an ever-increasing demand for high-quality information pertaining to the psychological demands of golf; the key psychological variables that affect golfing development and performance; and evidence-based strategies which enable effective golf performance under pressure. This novel text provides a comprehensive portrayal of the psychological factors which enable effective golfing development and optimal performance under pressure. A theoretical review of the pertinent psychological factors followed by the practical application of theory for the provision of “take home messages” will ensure that this book is of value interest and benefit for golfers coaches golf organisations and even the parents of golfers alongside sport psychology scholars students practitioners and researchers alike.

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The Routledge Dictionary of Performance and Contemporary Theatre

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance

The Psychology of Sport and Performance Injury An Interprofessional Case-Based Approach

The Psychology of Sport and Performance Injury An Interprofessional Case-Based Approach

The use of psychological interventions and counselling strategies has become a central part of injury prevention rehabilitation and return to participation process. The Psychology of Sport and Performance Injury: An Interprofessional Case-Based Approach is the first book to offer students academic scholars and practitioners case studies that are grounded in psychological theory and empirical evidence with a specific focus on addressing psychological aspects of sport and performance injuries in an interprofessional manner. This book presents nine real-life inspired fictional sport and performance injury cases. It demonstrates the viability and effectiveness of adopting an interprofessional person-centered approach to injury rehabilitation and return to participation process. Each case is focused on a particular phase of rehabilitation with specific attention placed on relevant biopsychosocial concerns. Within each chapter a theoretical conceptual and empirical analysis of the case is presented followed by detailed accounts on how a range of professionals and significant others can work alongside each other to provide a holistic care for the injured performer within their own competencies. The Psychology of Sport and Performance Injury: An Interprofessional Case-Based Approach emphasizes the importance of holistic interprofessional approach to sport and performance injury rehabilitation. This book is a vital resource for upper-level students academic scholars and applied practitioners from a range of sport and performance related disciplines such as athletic training kinesiology occupational therapy physical therapy sport psychology sports therapy and strength and conditioning. It offers a valuable reading for a range of individuals and professionals who are involved in sport and performance injury prevention rehabilitation and return to participation process. | The Psychology of Sport and Performance Injury An Interprofessional Case-Based Approach

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The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance

Futilitarianism Essays on India’s Economic Policy and Performance

The Body in Sound Music and Performance Studies in Audio and Sonic Arts

Writing Performance Identity and Everyday Life The Selected Works of Ronald J. Pelias

Writing Performance Identity and Everyday Life The Selected Works of Ronald J. Pelias

Writing Performance Identity and Everyday Life invites the reader into Ronald J. Pelias’ world of artistic and everyday performance. Calling upon a broad range of qualitative methods these selected writings from Pelias submerge themselves in the evocative and embodied in the material and consequential often creating moving accounts of their topics. The book is divided into four sections: Foundational Logics Performance Identity and Everyday Life. Part I addresses the methodological underpinnings of the book focusing on the ‘touchstones’ that inform Pelias’ work: performative autoethnographic poetic and narrative methods. These directions push the researcher toward empathic engagement a leaning toward others; using the literary to evoke the cognitive and affective aspects of experience; and an ethical sensibility located in social justice. Parts II–IV focus on artistic and everyday life performances including discussions of the disciplinary shift from the oral interpretation of literature to the field of performance studies; empathy and the actor’s process; conceptions of performance; the performance of race gender and sexuality; and performances in interpersonal relations and academic circles. By the end readers will see Pelias demonstrate the power of qualitative methods to engage and to present alternative ways of being. Pelias’ work shows us how to understand and feel the evocative strength of thinking performatively. | Writing Performance Identity and Everyday Life The Selected Works of Ronald J. Pelias

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