Sentence examples for conventions of performance from inspiring English sources

Unlike Skinner or Ginsberg, she is playing not just with thoughts and verse, but the conventions of performance itself.

Performed over the centuries by actors devoted selflessly to the profession of a traditional art, conventions of performance became highly stylized, and traditions of characterization and play structure became formalized to a point of exceptional finesse, subtlety, and sophistication.

Ms. Ripley's was a sui generis portrayal, possessed of its own idiosyncratic rhythms and a calculated disregard for many of the conventions of classical performance in musicals (which include staying on key).

The conventions of live performance were redefined: guitarists played solos lasting for several minutes, light shows and bare-breasted dancers provided distractions, and members of the audience dressed as spectacularly as the performers; drugs were everywhere.

Some scholars believe that the Xipi musical form was derived from the historic Qinqiang, while many conventions of staging, performance elements, and aesthetic principles were retained from Kunqu, the form that preceded it as court art.

In the post-war period, editions have moved increasingly to reflect the performance conventions of Monteverdi's day.

Differences between plays arise from differences in conditions of performance, in local conventions, in the purpose of theatre within the community, and in cultural history.

This work is one of parts of the evaluation of effectiveness of Stockholm Convention performance.

Given the pervasive use of common source data in HR research, scholars may like to reconsider the current convention of relying on subjective measures of performance and shift towards an objective or combined approach.

What she does is seen by some as an affront to an entire tradition of British theatre-making, with its time-honoured stage conventions and performance practice.

This almost surgical approach to the conventions of stand-up could make his performances a desperately dry and self-indulgent business.