Theatre, Performance and Change

Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Tamara Underiner, Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Tamara Underiner

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9783319658285
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Performing Arts

This book works to 'make change strange' from and for the field of theatre and performance studies. Growing from the idea that change is an under-interrogated category that over-determines theatre and performance as an artistic, social, educational, and material practice, the scholars and practitioners gathered here (including specialists in theatre history and literature, educational theatre, youth arts, arts policy, socially invested theatre, and activist performance) take up the question of change in thirty-five short essays. For anyone who has wondered about the relationships between theatre, performance and change itself, this book is an essential conversation starter.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Frontmatter
• Introduction
• Taking the Mic: Hip Hop’s Call for Change
• Rehearsing Citizenship: Performance as Public Practice in the Undergraduate Curriculum
• Street Performers Working for Change
• The Third Space: Inter-Cultural Youth Performance as a Catalyst for Change
• Uncommon Partnerships
• Reflections on School Change Through the Arts
• n = 1
• Denouement: Notes on the End(s) of Activism
• Making Change: Performance and the Workings of the Event
• Adding to the Dialogue with Latina/o Plays for Young Audiences
• An Environment of Cascading Consequences
• Creating a Populist Theatre
• Laying the Groundwork for Dramatic Results: ASSITEJ’s Next Generation
• Fifty Years of Chicano Theatre: Mapping the Face(s) of the New American Theatre
• In the Heights at the University of Pittsburgh: Failures, Successes and Change
• Choreography, Connections and Change
• The Journey Matters: Agency Through Artistry
• “Of Change”
• Testing the Waters of Change in the Classroom: The Case for Incremental Transformation in Teacher Practice
• Racial Justice Activism and Equitable Partnerships: Theories of Change from Theatres of Color
• Social Imaginaries and Theatre
• Radical Creativity as a Lever for Social Change: Why it Matters, What it Takes
• Why Do They Think This Is Okay? Critiquing Performance as a Means for Change
• What We Left Behind in Our Race to the Top: Education Reform Goes Metaformative
• The Aesthetics of Inclusion
• Changes, Everything Changes (Cambia, todo cambia)
• Big History
• 100 Questions 3 Ideas 1 Story and a Ghost
• SHIFT2
• “The Odéon is Open”: Performative Politics and the Paris 1968 Uprising
• Despite Artists’ Intentions, Emancipated Spectatorship Reinforces Audience Members’ Existing Attitudes and Beliefs
• The Breath of Change or How to Stay Awake When the World Desires Sleep and Other Thoughts About Theatre, Performance and Bowie’s “Ch-Changes”
• The Waning of Affect, the End of the Liberal Project, and the Rehearsal of Social Change: A Page from the Millennial Playbook
• (Inter)Disciplinary Change
• The Administrator as Activist
• And …?