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Engaging Performance: Theatre as call and response

Autor Jan Cohen-Cruz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 iul 2010

Engaging Performance is the first systematic overview of socially engaged performance. Jan Cohen-Cruz has drawn together a collection of case studies that chart the history of performance's contribution to social justice.

Each chapter of this comprehensive account addresses a key aspect of engaged performance, moving from specific case studies to contemporary examples of related performances and then to practical exercises, covering:

  • artistic ensembles' amplification of power movements
  • Theatre of the Oppressed
  • personal story-based artmaking
  • the political dramatic text
  • cultural organising
  • cultural traditions
  • training for performance and social justice

A skillful progression from history through theory to practice makes Engaging Performance the definitive text on a rapidly expanding field.

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ISBN-13: 9780415472142
ISBN-10: 0415472148
Pagini: 244
Ilustrații: 10 black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction  Kinship among Engaged Performance Practices  Purposes for Writing this Book Book Organization: Centers of Gravity of Engaged Performance  Chapter 1. Playwrighting: Putting Plays to Use 1.1 Brecht’s Intellectually Active Spectator  1.2Kushner’s Magical Epic Theatre Angels in the Context of a Social Movement The Post-Social Movement Life of Angels  1.3 Community-Informed Adaptations  1.4 The Unfaithful Disciple  1.5 Workbook: Situating Plays for Social Engagement  Chapter 2. Specta(c)ting: Theatre of the Oppressed, Orthodoxy and Adaptation  2.1 The System of Theatre of the Oppressed  2.2 Adapting Boal  2.3 Semi-Invisible Theatre: Magic That Mystifies and Reveals  2.4 The Joker System as Pedagogy and Performance 2.5 The Spirit of Boal in the Bronx  2.6 Activating the Specta(c)tor  2.7 Workbook: Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed Techniques  Ch 3. Self-Representing: Testimonial Performance  3.1 Social Call, Cultural Response  3.2 The Testimonial Process  3.3 Cultural Democracy and Self-Representation  3.4 home land security as a Testimonial Performance  3.5 From Self-Representation to Community Action  3.6 Workbook: Interviewing and Story Circles  Ch 4. Cultural Organizing: Multiple Modes of Communication  4.1 Creating Cultural Organizing Tools  4.2 Theorizing Culture as Political Strategy  4.3 Integrating Artists and Activists  4.4 Workbook: The Creation of Scripts from Stories and Interviews  Ch 5. Gathering Assets: the Art of Local Resources  5.1 The Choice: Top Down or Bottom Up  5.2 Social Capital and Asset-Based Community Organizing  5.3 The Youth Theatre Workshop: Adapting Method to Context  5.4 The Art of Cultural Resources  5.5 Workbook: Facilitating Theatre Workshops  Ch 6. Particularizing Place: Revitalizing Cities and Neighborhoods  6.1 Revitalizing Downtowns  6.2 The Urban Video Project  6.3 Towards a Participatory Performance Spectacle  6.4 Revitalizing Urban Neighborhoods  6.5 Efforts to Create an Arts District  6.6 Art and Community Building  6.7 The Arts’ Contribution to Urban Development  6.8 Workbook: Making Site-Specific Performance Ch 7. Training: An Engaged Artist Prepares  7.1 The Dynamic Triangle of a Socially-Engaged Arts Curriculum  7.2 Craft Training  7.3 Scholarship in an Engaged Art Education  7.4 Community Engagement as a Component of Learning  7.5 Values and Principles Underlying Training 7.6 Higher Education as the Site of Engaged Art Pedagogy  Advantages of Learning Engaged Art in Higher Education  Obstacles to Situating Engaged Art Training in Higher Education  7.7 Assessing Engaged Art Education  7.8 The Curriculum Project Interviewees  7.9 Workbook: Beginning Engaged Art Partnerships  Afterword: The Centrality of Relationships in Engaging Performance  Appendix

Notă biografică

Jan Cohen-Cruz is director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. She is the author of Local Acts: Community Performance in the US; the editor of Radical Street Performance; co-editor, with Mady Schutzman, of Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism and A Boal Companion; and a University Professor at Syracuse University.

Recenzii

'Cohen-Cruz has been a dominant force in the field and her diverse experience is threaded through as examples throughout this book... It is difficult to think of someone more embedded in all aspects of community performance scholarship and practice.' - Rebecca Caines, Performance Paradigm
‘Jan Cohen-Cruz’s latest book offers an approach to community art that is distinguished not by its technique or amateurism, but by the level of its engagement with the people most affected by the subject matter of the work. Cohen-Cruz argues that organizational skill and activist competence are a crucial, though undervalued, component of community art. The cases presented in the book, all from the US, interestingly tell the reader about the processes that led to the final production, and discuss problems that were encountered by the performance groups.’Sruti Bala, Theatre Research International

Descriere

Engaging Performance is the first systematic overview of socially engaged performance. Jan Cohen-Cruz has drawn together a collection of case studies that chart the history of performance's contribution to social justice.

Each chapter of this comprehensive account addresses a key aspect of engaged performance, moving from specific case studies to contemporary examples of related performances and then to practical exercises, covering:

  • artistic ensembles' amplification of power movements
  • Theatre of the Oppressed
  • personal story-based artmaking
  • the political dramatic text
  • cultural organising
  • cultural traditions
  • training for performance and social justice

A skillful progression from history through theory to practice makes Engaging Performance the definitive text on a rapidly expanding field.