Engaging Performance
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Engaging Performance

Theatre as call and response

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Engaging Performance

Theatre as call and response

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About This Book

Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine "socially engaged performance." It offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using performance to engage in a variety of social and artistic projects. Author

Jan Cohen-Cruz draws on a career of groundbreaking research and work within the fields of political, applied, and community theatre to explore the impact of how differing genres of theatre respond to social "calls."

Areas highlighted include:



  • playwrighting and the engaged artist



  • theatre of the oppressed



  • performance as testimonial



  • the place of engaged art in cultural organizing



  • the use of local resources in engaged art



  • revitalizing cities and neighborhoods through engaged performance



  • training of the engaged artist.

Cohen-Cruz also draws on the work of major theoreticians, including Bertolt Brecht, Augusto Boal, and Doreen Massey, as well as analyzing in-depth case studies of the work of US practitioners today to illustrate engaged performance in action.

Jan Cohen-Cruz is director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. She is the author of Local Acts: Community-based 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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
ISBN
9781136943072
Edition
1
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Performing Arts

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. CONTENTS
  6. LIST OF FIGURES
  7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. 1 PLAYWRIGHTING: Putting plays to use
  10. 2 SPECTA(C)TING: Theatre of the oppressed, orthodoxy and adaptation
  11. 3 SELF-REPRESENTING: Testimonial performance
  12. 4 CULTURAL ORGANIZING: Multiple modes of communication
  13. 5 GATHERING ASSETS: The art of local resources
  14. 6 PARTICULARIZING PLACE: Revitalizing cities and neighborhoods
  15. 7 TRAINING: An engaged artist prepares
  16. AFTERWORD: The centrality of relationships in engaging performance
  17. APPENDIX
  18. Notes
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index