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Complicité
Complicité (originally Théâtre de Complicité) is a British international touring theatre company founded in 1983 by Simon McBurney, Annabel Arden, Fiona Gordon and Marcello Magni, known for Lecoq-influenced devised physical theatre such as Mnemonic and The Encounter.
Concert dance
Concert dance (performance dance, theatre dance in the UK) is choreographed dance staged for a nonparticipating audience, spanning ballet, modern, contemporary, and tap, distinct from social and commercial dance.
Condola Rashad
Condola Rashad (born 1986, New York) is an American stage and screen actress, daughter of Phylicia Rashad, with four Tony nominations (Stick Fly, The Trip to Bountiful, A Doll's House Part 2, Saint Joan) and Kate Sacker on Billions.
Conner O'Malley
Conner O'Malley, American comedian and YouTuber born 1986 in Des Plaines, Illinois, known for Vine-era character videos, the Stand Up Solutions special, Joe Pera Talks with You, and I Think You Should Leave roles.
Contemporary dance
Contemporary dance is a mid-20th-century concert dance genre blending ballet, modern dance, jazz, hip-hop, martial arts, and improvisation, distinguished from modern dance by its open, evolving structure rather than fixed movement systems.
Contemporary Egyptian theater
Contemporary Egyptian theater is Egypt's live stage tradition, among the forerunners of Arabic theater, spanning state, commercial, and independent sectors from James Sanua's 1871 troupe onward.
Contortion
Contortion is a circus performance art of extreme flexibility, combining backbends, splits, and balance poses. Known in Mongolia as uran nugaralt, it entered the Western circus in the 18th century; MRI studies measure spinal mobility of 238 degrees.
Coppélia
Coppélia (Coppélia, ou La Fille aux Yeux d'Émail) is Delibes's comic ballet of 1870, choreographed by Saint-Léon to a Nuitter libretto after Hoffmann's Der Sandmann, about Swanilda, Franz, and a lifelike doll.
Corey Baker (choreographer)
Corey Baker is a New Zealand-born, UK-based choreographer, creative director, and filmmaker, founder of Corey Baker Dance. Known for Antarctica: The First Dance, Swan Lake Bath Ballet (2021 Prix Italia), and choreography for Wednesday, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.
Corey Cott
Corey Cott (born 1990, Columbus, Mississippi) is an American stage and screen actor, CMU graduate, Broadway lead in Newsies, Gigi, and Bandstand, and Detective Jake Griffin on Law & Order: SVU since 2025.
Coriolanus
Coriolanus is Shakespeare's Roman tragedy, written around 1607-8 and first published in the 1623 First Folio. It follows Caius Martius Coriolanus, banished from Rome, who allies with Aufidius against the city before his mother Volumnia persuades him to spare it.
Corky Ballas
Corky Ballas (Mark Alexander Ballas Sr.), American retired competitive ballroom dancer, World Professional Latin Champion 1995-1996 and Blackpool British Open winner; ex-husband of Shirley Ballas, father of Mark Ballas, and a Dancing with the Stars pro.
Corporeal mime
Corporeal mime (mime corporel dramatique) is a twentieth-century stage technique and art form founded by Étienne Decroux in 1930s Paris, using the whole body from the trunk, codified training, and a repertoire, distinct from narrative pantomime.
Corps de ballet
Corps de ballet, French for "body of the ballet": the ensemble dancers of a ballet company who perform in unison without solo parts, below soloists and principals in rank, famous in Swan Lake, Giselle, and La Bayadère.
Costume design
Costume design creates clothing for performers in theater, film, and television to communicate character, period, and status; distinct from fashion design, it spans script analysis, research, construction, and aging, with figures like Edith Head and institutions like UCLA's Copley Center.
Cotillion
The cotillion is a choreographed square dance for four couples that arose in France in the early 18th century and was superseded by the quadrille around 1815.
Craig Cash
Craig Cash (born 1960, Manchester) is an English comedy writer, actor, director and producer, co-creator of The Royle Family with Caroline Aherne, writer of Early Doors, and narrator of Gogglebox since 2016.
Crazy Mohan
Crazy Mohan (Mohan Rangachari, 1952–2019) was a Tamil playwright, comedian, actor and dialogue writer, founder of Crazy Creations, known for wordplay-driven plays like Chocolate Krishna and Kamal Haasan comedies such as Michael Madana Kama Rajan.
Creole circus
The Creole circus, also called circo criollo or circus theater, is an Argentine performance form pairing circus acts with gaucho drama, pioneered by the Podestá family.
Criss Angel
Criss Angel (Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos, born 1967) is an American illusionist from East Meadow, New York, star of A&E's Mindfreak (2005-2010) and Las Vegas residencies Believe, Mindfreak Live!, and MINDFREAK at Planet Hollywood.
Cristela Alonzo
Cristela Alonzo (born 1979, San Juan, Texas) is an American comedian, writer, actor, and producer, the first Latina to create, produce, write, and star in a network sitcom, Cristela (ABC, 2014-2015), and first Latina Pixar lead, Cruz Ramirez in Cars 3, with Netflix specials Lower, Middle, and Upper Classy.
Critics' Circle
The Critics' Circle is a British professional association of critics founded in 1913, with more than 500 UK members whose Drama Section runs the annual Theatre Awards.
Crucible Theatre
The Crucible Theatre (Sheffield's Crucible) is a 1971 thrust-stage producing theatre, Grade II listed, and home of the World Snooker Championship since 1977; a £45m 2028 redevelopment will raise capacity to 1,500 in the round.
Cuban National Ballet
Ballet Nacional de Cuba, the Cuban National Ballet: Havana classical ballet company founded 28 October 1948 by Alicia, Fernando, and Alberto Alonso; nationalized after the 1959 revolution; home of the Cuban school of ballet, famed for its Giselle and dancers such as Carlos Acosta.
Cultural Center of the Philippines
The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP; Sentrong Pangkultura ng Pilipinas) is a government-owned corporation created in 1966 to promote and develop Philippine arts and culture.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655), French free-thinking writer and soldier, author of L'Autre monde (Moon 1657, Sun 1662), early science fiction; subject of Rostand's 1897 play.
Cyrano de Bergerac (play)
Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand's five-act verse comédie héroïque premiered 28 December 1897 at the Théâtre de la Porte-Saint-Martin, adapts the 1619–1655 libertine writer into the nose-proud hero who ghost-writes Christian's love letters to Roxane.
Czech absurd drama
Czech absurd drama (české absurdní drama) is the Czech branch of the theater of the absurd, in which Václav Havel's plays ground absurdity in bureaucratic language and totalitarian power.
D. L. Hughley
D.L. Hughley (Darryl Lynn Hughley, born 1963) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and radio host, original host of BET's ComicView, star of The Hughleys, one of The Original Kings of Comedy, and a Peabody-winning political commentator.
Dab (dance)
Dab (dance): hip-hop move, head into the crook of one bent arm with the other extended, from Atlanta's 2010s scene. Inventor disputed (Migos, Skippa Da Flippa); popularized nationally by Cam Newton's 2015 celebrations; unrelated to cannabis dabbing.