Rehearsal Practices Of Indigenous Women Theatre Makers

Author : Liza-Mare Syron
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303082375X
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rehearsal Practices of Indigenous Women Theatre Makers written by Liza-Mare Syron and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This transnational and transcultural study intimately investigates the theatre making practices of Indigenous women playwrights from Australia, Aotearoa, and Turtle Island. It offers a new perspective in Performance Studies employing an Indigenous standpoint, specifically an Indigenous woman’s standpoint to privilege the practices and knowledges of Maori, First Nations, and Aboriginal women playwrights. Written in the style of ethnographic narrative the author affords the reader a ringside seat in providing personal insights on the process of negotiating access to rehearsals in each specific cultural context, detailed descriptions of each rehearsal location, and describing the visceral experiences of observing Indigenous theatre makers from inside the rehearsal room. The Indigenous scholar and theatre maker draws on Rehearsal Studies as an approach to documenting the day-to-day working practices of Indigenous theatre makers and considers an Indigenous Standpoint as a valid framework for investigating contemporary Indigenous theatre practices in a colonised context.

Author : Emily A. Rollie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040020097
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milestones in Staging Contemporary Genders and Sexualities written by Emily A. Rollie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the staging of genders and sexualities across world theatre sets out a broad view of the subject by featuring plays and performance artists that shifted the conversation in their cultural, social, and historical moments. Designed for weekly use in theatre studies, dramatic literature, or gender and performance studies courses, these ten milestones highlight women and writers of the global majority, supporting and amplifying voices that are key to the field and some that have typically been overlooked. From Paula Vogel, Split Britches, and Young Jean Lee to Werewere Liking, Mahesh Dattani, Yvette Nolan, and more, the chapters place artists’ key works into conversation with one another, structurally offering an intersectional perspective on staging genders and sexualities. Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

Author : Jaye T. Darby
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350035076
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Companion to Native American and First Nations Theatre and Performance written by Jaye T. Darby and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This foundational study offers an accessible introduction to Native American and First Nations theatre by drawing on critical Indigenous and dramaturgical frameworks. It is the first major survey book to introduce Native artists, plays, and theatres within their cultural, aesthetic, spiritual, and socio-political contexts. Native American and First Nations theatre weaves the spiritual and aesthetic traditions of Native cultures into diverse, dynamic, contemporary plays that enact Indigenous human rights through the plays' visionary styles of dramaturgy and performance. The book begins by introducing readers to historical and cultural contexts helpful for reading Native American and First Nations drama, followed by an overview of Indigenous plays and theatre artists from across the century. Finally, it points forward to the ways in which Native American and First Nations theatre artists are continuing to create works that advocate for human rights through transformative Native performance practices. Addressing the complexities of this dynamic field, this volume offers critical grounding in the historical development of Indigenous theatre in North America, while analysing key Native plays and performance traditions from the mainland United States and Canada. In surveying Native theatre from the late 19th century until today, the authors explore the cultural, aesthetic, and spiritual concerns, as well as the political and revitalization efforts of Indigenous peoples. This book frames the major themes of the genre and identifies how such themes are present in the dramaturgy, rehearsal practices, and performance histories of key Native scripts.

Author : Paulette Marty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474268536
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Women Stage Directors written by Paulette Marty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of interviews with 27 female professional theatre directors in the United Kingdom and United States. --

Author : Richard Schechner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812200926
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Theater and Anthropology written by Richard Schechner and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others fascinated (but perhaps terrified) by the multichannel realities of the postmodern world. Schechner argues that in failing to see the structure of the whole theatrical process, anthropologists in particular have neglected close analogies between performance behavior and ritual. The way performances are created—in training, workshops, and rehearsals—is the key paradigm for social process.

Author : Sarah Ruhl
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374711976
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write written by Sarah Ruhl and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write is an incisive, idiosyncratic collection on life and theater from major American playwright Sarah Ruhl. This is a book in which chimpanzees, Chekhov, and child care are equally at home. A vibrant, provocative examination of the possibilities of the theater, it is also a map to a very particular artistic sensibility, and an unexpected guide for anyone who has chosen an artist's life. Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a stunningly original book of essays whose concerns range from the most minimal and personal subjects to the most encompassing matters of art and culture. The titles themselves speak to the volume's uniqueness: "On lice," "On sleeping in the theater," "On motherhood and stools (the furniture kind)," "Greek masks and Bell's palsy."

Author : Raes Calvert
Publisher : Talonbooks
ISBN 13 : 9781772012293
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redpatch written by Raes Calvert and published by Talonbooks. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of a Métis soldier fighting for Canada on the Western Front of Europe during WWI. Vancouver 1914, a young Native man named Jonathon Woodrow, desperate to prove himself as a warrior enlists to fight in the Canadian army. Relying on his experience in hunting and wilderness survival, Pte. Woodrow quickly becomes one of the most feared trench-raiders in the 1st Canadian Division. But as the war stretches on, and with no end to the fighting in sight, Pte. Woodrow begins to realize that he will never go home again."--

Author : Leon Rubin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134324200
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance in Bali written by Leon Rubin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Rubin and I Nyoman Sedana, both international theatre professionals as well as scholars, collaborate to give an understanding of performance culture in Bali from inside and out. The book describes four specific forms of contemporary performance that are unique to Bali: Wayang shadow-puppet theatre Sanghyang ritual trance performance Gambuh classical dance-drama the virtuoso art of Topeng masked theatre. These culturally unique and beautiful theatrical events are contextualised within religious, intellectual and social backgrounds to give unparalleled insight into the mind and world of the Balinese performer.

Author : Annette Arlander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351654330
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performance as Research written by Annette Arlander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance as Research (PAR) is characterised by an extraordinary elasticity and interdisciplinary drive. Performance as Research: Knowledge, Methods, Impact celebrates this energy, bringing together chapters from a wide range of disciplines and eight different countries. This volume focuses explicitly on three critical, often contentious themes that run through much discussion of PaR as a discipline: Knowledge - the areas and manners in which performance can generate knowledge Methods - methods and methodologies for approaching performance as research Impact - a broad understanding of the impact of this form of research These themes are framed by four essays from the book's editors, contextualising their interrelated conversations, teasing out common threads, and exploring the new questions that the contributions pose to the field of performance. As both an intervention into and extension of current debates, this is a vital collection for any reader concerned with the value and legitimacy of performance as research.

Author : Ananya Chatterjea
Publisher : Decolonizing Feminisms
ISBN 13 : 9780295749556
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dancing Transnational Feminisms written by Ananya Chatterjea and published by Decolonizing Feminisms. This book was released on 2021 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dancing Transnational Feminisms brings together reflections and critical responses about the embodied creative practices that have been part of the work of Ananya Dance Theatre (ADT), a Twin Cities-based dance company of women of color who work at the intersections of artistic excellence and social justice. Focusing on ADT's creative processes and organizational strategies, the book highlights how women and femme artists of color, working with a marginalized movement aesthetic, claim and transform the spaces of contemporary concert dance into sites of empowerment, resistance, and knowledge production. Blending essays with epistolary texts, interviews and poems, the collection's contributors offer up a multigenre exploration of how dance and other artistic undertakings can be intersectionally reimagined. Building on more than fifteen years of collaborative dance-making and sustained dialogues, Dancing Transnational Feminisms delves into timely questions surrounding race and performance, art and politics, global and local inequities and the responsibilities of artists towards the communities they come from"--