Since ensemble taiko is focused on rhythm, the ma of a piece is critical to adding drama, excitement, and tension.

He also had a leading role as the head of an eccentric family in the ensemble cast film The Royal Tenenbaums and in yet another Grisham legal drama, Runaway Jury, at long last getting to make a picture with his longtime friend Dustin Hoffman.

In the wake of such success, rival troupes quickly formed, and kabuki was born as ensemble dance and drama performed by women — a form very different from its modern incarnation.

Later that year, Soderbergh released Traffic, a social drama written by Stephen Gaghan and featuring an ensemble cast.

He was also part of the all-star ensemble in Elia Kazan's 1976 drama The Last Tycoon.

In an 1995 American drama film, starring an ensemble cast, Laurence Fishburne won an Image Award for " Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture " for his performance in Higher Learning as West Indian Professor Maurice Phipps.

Burstyn's performance in the acclaimed 1971 ensemble drama The Last Picture Show brought her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, after which she moved from supporting to leading film and stage roles.

The structure of the modern " ensemble " television drama comes from Bochco who many regard as having changed the " language " of television drama.

The ensemble drama stars Peter Krause, Michael C. Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St. Patrick and Rachel Griffiths as the show's seven central characters.

In 2006, Perry co-starred in the ensemble drama series Windfall, about a group of friends who win the lottery.

NHS also offers various fine arts programs which include a drama troupe, string orchestra, wind ensemble, marching band, jazz band, various choruses, and a madrigal choir.

Different versions of the piphat ensemble are employed to accompany specific forms of traditional Thai drama such as the large shadow puppet theater ( nang yai ) and the khon dance drama.

Joan Littlewood pioneered an ensemble approach, with her husband Ewan MacColl, that sought to involve cast and audience in drama as a living event.

He next collaborated with Karan Johar again in the family drama, Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, in which he featured as a part of an ensemble cast that included Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Kajol, Kareena Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan.

She next played the main protagonist in Rajkumar Santoshi's drama Lajja along with an ensemble cast that included Rekha, Anil Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit.

On January 30, 2011, she won another Screen Actors Guild award for her role while The Good Wife was once again nominated for best ensemble in a drama show but lost to Boardwalk Empire.

Zinta received further success in 2006, starring in Karan Johar's drama Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna with an ensemble cast including Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Rani Mukerji and Kirron Kher.

More recently, Davenport was part of the ensemble cast of characters in the drama series FlashForward and Smash.

Since 2007, Bell has starred in Lifetime's ensemble drama series Army Wives as Denise Sherwood, the wife of a U. S. Army lieutenant colonel, who endured domestic violence at the hands of her teenage son during the show's first season.

CSM tutors students in a musicianship programme, professional instrumental work, performance ( including drama ) studies, composition, ensemble work, basic instrumental work, music history, music technology, and Irish traditional music studies.

L. A. Law took over NBC's prized Thursday 10PM ( 9PM Central ) time slot from another Bochco-produced show, Hill Street Blues, and was itself eventually replaced by another hit ensemble drama, ER.

Others notable films include 1995 box office bomb Fluke, 1996 Whoopi Goldberg's comedy Bogus, political comedy / drama Running Mates with Tom Selleck, 2001 drama film Auggie Rose, 2005 comedy The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and 2007 ensemble cast romantic drama The Jane Austen Book Club adapted from the 2004 novel of the same name by Karen Joy Fowler.

The duo began their Paramount film careers in 1949 as ensemble players in My Friend Irma, based on the popular radio series of the same name.

He quickly developed a reputation as a character actor, and was cast in bigger roles, including one-half of the bickering Connecticut couple in the dark comedy The Ref ( 1994 ), a malicious Hollywood studio boss in the satire Swimming with Sharks, and the malevolent office manager in the all-star ensemble film Glengarry Glen Ross ( 1992 ), gaining him positive notices by critics.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

* The family ( 1973 ) for ensemble ( film music )

* Life ( 2009 ) for ensemble, with film by Marijke van Warmerdam

* Anaïs Nin ( 2009 / 10 ) for singer, ensemble and film

While his direction of an ensemble cast and parallel fiction was recognized as astonishing in He is in the Army now ( 2002 ), his last film Shattered Soul ( 2005 ) has taken its well-earned place in Turkish Cinema History as being the first psychological thriller ever, and was awarded with a " Bronze Gryphone " at 2006 in International St. Petersburg Film Festival.

Schickele has composed more than 100 original works for symphony orchestra, choral groups, chamber ensemble, voice, film ( e. g. Silent Running, and animated adaptations of Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen ), and television.

During the second half of the 1990s she starred in several films such as the ensemble romantic film ' Til There Was You ( 1997 ) with Dylan McDermott and Sarah Jessica Parker, The Thin Pink Line ( 1998 ), the animated feature The Iron Giant ( 1999 ), and the critically acclaimed comedy Office Space ( 1999 ).

He also said the ensemble casting gave the "' best ' performance in this best film this year from Hollywood.

That year, she was part of an ensemble of international actors in the French film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and Wim Wenders, Beyond the Clouds.

In 2006, Hunt appeared in the ensemble cast film Bobby alongside Demi Moore, Anthony Hopkins, Sharon Stone and William H. Macy.

Whitney Houston's music video " Queen of the Night " includes clips from the film as well as Houston wearing a shiny metallic ensemble resembling Maschinenmensch.

Kozintzev described his vision of the film as an ensemble piece: with Lear, played by a dynamic Jüri Järvet, as first among equals in a cast of fully developed characters.

Keillor and the ensemble perform comedy skits, such as the satirical " Guy Noir, Private Eye ", which parodies film noir and radio dramas.

Critic Dennis Schwartz appreciated the acting ensemble in the film and wrote, " The film was too stagebound to be effective cinema, but it scores points in its unsentimental portrait of the loser life of the lonely and desperate merchant seamen.

" This Country's Going To War " is the final musical ensemble in the film, and is also the only musical number in the Marx Brothers ' films to feature all four of the Brothers.

Other Altman trademarks prevalent in the film are the large ensemble cast and the overlapping dialogue with several characters speaking at once.

The avant-garde jazz ensemble Club Foot Orchestra has also re-scored the film, and performed live accompanying the film.