Jan Cohen-Cruz

Engaging Performance

Theatre as call and response

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Produktbeschreibung

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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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780415472135
• ISBN-10: 041547213X
• Artikelnr.: 29932639

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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