Performing Utopia
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Utopia In Performance
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Author : Jill Dolan
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2010-02-05
Utopia In Performance written by Jill Dolan and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-05 with Drama categories.
"Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish and hold close as a personal favorite, and that scholars will cite for years to come." ---David Román, University of Southern California What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a theater, hoping to be moved and provoked, challenged and comforted? In Utopia in Performance, Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional, and social connection that we experience at such times, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social change. She traces these "utopian performatives" in a range of performances, including the solo performances of feminist artists Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin, and Peggy Shaw; multicharacter solo performances by Lily Tomlin, Danny Hoch, and Anna Deavere Smith; the slam poetry event Def Poetry Jam; The Laramie Project; Blanket, a performance by postmodern choreographer Ann Carlson; Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; and Deborah Warner's production of Medea starring Fiona Shaw. While the book richly captures moments of "feeling utopia" found within specific performances, it also celebrates the broad potential that performance has to provide a forum for being human together; for feeling love, hope, and commonality in particular and historical (rather than universal and transcendent) ways.
Performing Utopias In The Contemporary Americas
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Author : Kim Beauchesne
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-05-09
Performing Utopias In The Contemporary Americas written by Kim Beauchesne and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-09 with Social Science categories.
This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize utopia as a creative and theoretical method based on a commitment to sociopolitical transformation. Chapters are organized around notions of mapping utopias, indigenizing practices, political manifestations, and the construction of social identities.
Performance Space Utopia
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Author : S. Jestrovic
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-11-13
Performance Space Utopia written by S. Jestrovic and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-13 with Performing Arts categories.
Over 20 years after the war in Yugoslavia, this book looks back at its two most iconic cities and the phenomenon of exile emerging as a consequence of living in them in the 1990s. It uses examples ranging from street interventions to theatre performances to explore the making of urban counter-sites through theatricality and utopian performatives.
Playing Utopia
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Author : Benjamin Beil
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2019-11-07
Playing Utopia written by Benjamin Beil and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-07 with Social Science categories.
Media narratives inform our ideas of the future – and Games are currently making a significant contribution to this medial reservoir. On the one hand, Games demonstrate a particular propensity for fantastic and futuristic scenarios. On the other hand, they often serve as an experimental field for the latest media technologies. However, while dystopias are part of the standard gaming repertoire, Games feature utopias much less frequently. Why? This anthology examines playful utopias from two perspectives. It investigates utopias in digital Games as well as utopias of the digital game; that is, the role of ludic elements in scenarios of the future.
Performing Utopia And The Apocalyptics Of Desire
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Author : André-Jacques Pinochet Elias
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Performing Utopia And The Apocalyptics Of Desire written by André-Jacques Pinochet Elias and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Burning Man (Festival) categories.
Performance Space Utopia
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Author : S. Jestrovic
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-11-13
Performance Space Utopia written by S. Jestrovic and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-13 with Performing Arts categories.
Over 20 years after the war in Yugoslavia, this book looks back at its two most iconic cities and the phenomenon of exile emerging as a consequence of living in them in the 1990s. It uses examples ranging from street interventions to theatre performances to explore the making of urban counter-sites through theatricality and utopian performatives.
Performing Utopia
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Author : Rachel Bowditch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Performing Utopia written by Rachel Bowditch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Dystopias categories.
In her landmark study Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, Jill Dolan departed from historical writings on utopia, which suggest that social reorganization and the redistribution of wealth are utopian efforts, to argue instead that utopia occurs in fragmentary "utopian moments," often found embedded within performance. While Dolan focused on the utopian performative within a theatrical context, this volume, edited by Rachel Bowditch and Pegge Vissicaro, expands her theories to encompass performance in public life--from diasporic hip-hop battles, Chilean military parades, commemorative processions, Blackfoot powwows, and post-Katrina Mardi Gras to the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, Festas Juninas in Brazil, the Renaissance Fairs in Arizona, and neoburlesque competitions. How do these performances rehearse and enact visions of a utopic world? What can the lens of utopia and dystopia illuminate about the potential of performing bodies to transform communities, identities, values, and beliefs across time? Performing Utopia not only answers these questions, but offers a diverse collection of case studies focusing on utopias, dystopias, and heterotopias enacted through the performing body.
Chicanx Utopias
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Author : Luis Alvarez
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2022-02-22
Chicanx Utopias written by Luis Alvarez and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-22 with Social Science categories.
2023 Honorable Mention Best History Book, International Latino Book Awards Broad and encompassing examination of Chicanx popular culture since World War II and the utopian visions it articulated Amid the rise of neoliberalism, globalization, and movements for civil rights and global justice in the post–World War II era, Chicanxs in film, music, television, and art weaponized culture to combat often oppressive economic and political conditions. They envisioned utopias that, even if never fully realized, reimagined the world and linked seemingly disparate people and places. In the latter half of the twentieth century, Chicanx popular culture forged a politics of the possible and gave rise to utopian dreams that sprang from everyday experiences. In Chicanx Utopias, Luis Alvarez offers a broad study of these utopian visions from the 1950s to the 2000s. Probing the film Salt of the Earth, brown-eyed soul music, sitcoms, poster art, and borderlands reggae music, he examines how Chicanx pop culture, capable of both liberation and exploitation, fostered interracial and transnational identities, engaged social movements, and produced varied utopian visions with divergent possibilities and limits. Grounded in the theoretical frameworks of Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall, and the Zapatista movement, this book reveals how Chicanxs articulated pop cultural utopias to make sense of, challenge, and improve the worlds they inhabited.
The Sage Handbook Of Performance Studies
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Author : D. Soyini Madison
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2006
The Sage Handbook Of Performance Studies written by D. Soyini Madison and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Drama categories.
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Inside The Performance Workshop
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Author : Rachel Bowditch
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-31
Inside The Performance Workshop written by Rachel Bowditch and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-31 with Performing Arts categories.
Inside The Performance Workshop: A Sourcebook for Rasaboxes and Other Exercises is the first full-length volume dedicated to the history, theory, practice, and application of a suite of performer training exercises developed by Richard Schechner and elaborated on by the editors and contributors of this book. This work began in the 1960s with The Performance Group and has continued to evolve. Rasaboxes—a featured set of exercises—is an interdisciplinary approach for training emotional expressivity through the use of breath, body, voice, movement, and sensation. It brings together: the concept of rasa from classical Indian performance theory and practice research on emotion from neuroscience and psychology experimental and experiential performance practices theories of ritual, play, and performance This book combines both practical “how-to” guidance and applications from diverse contexts including undergraduate and graduate actor training, television acting, K-12 education, devising, and drama therapy. The book serves as an introduction to the work as well as an essential resource for experienced practitioners.