Tagged: Performing Arts

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Taking inspiration from nature

Many artists, and that includes many of our own students, find inspiration for their art and performances from our natural surroundings. Cheryl Tipp, the Curator of Wildlife and Environmental Sounds at the British Library,...

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Dance in Video – let’s get watching

Dance in Video contains five hundred hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well...

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Arts and health research

Are you interested in researching the interdisciplinary field of arts and health? We subscribe to the international ‘Arts and Health‘ journal which covers research, policy and practice. There is interest across the world about...

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Black History Month – follow up

For this year’s Black History Month, curator of classical music at The British Library, Johnathan Summers, chose to write a short piece about Eddie South who was a black American violinist. He explores Eddie’s...

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Christmas card designs

Are you someone who writes their Christmas cards early, or do you suddenly realise the last posting date has come and you haven’t even started writing them?! Do you buy your Christmas cards, or...

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Free webinars for PhD students

Calling all researchers! What do you know about the British Library? Does it have anything relevant to your research? The British Library are running a series of webinars in the new year where you...

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Digitising Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius

Edward Elgar’s, The Dream of Gerontius, is a setting of Cardinal John Henry Newman’s poem of the same name for voices and orchestra. It is an important work of Elgar which helped identify him...