Radical Street Performance

An International Anthology
Herausgeber: Cohen-Cruz, Jan

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume collates the writings by activists, directors, performers, critics, scholars and journalists who have documented street theatre around the world. The essays explore the forms these performances can take: agit-prop; invisible theatre; demonstrations and rallies; direct action; puppetry; parades and pageants; performance art; guerrilla theatre; and circuses. The essays look at performances in Europe, Africa, China, India and both the Americas. They describe engagement with issues as diverse as abortion, colonialism, the environment and homophobia.

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This collection of key texts brings together for the first time material from around the world. Radical Street Performance maps out the terrain of street performance, examining its multitude of purposes, forms and audiences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 163mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 739g
• ISBN-13: 9780415152303
• ISBN-10: 0415152305
• Artikelnr.: 21283966

Autorenporträt

Jan Cohen-Cruz

Inhaltsangabe

General introduction
1: Peter Handke
Part One: Agit-Prop
1: Introduction
2: Introduction by Vladimir Tolstoy Documents Edited by Vladimir Tolstoy, Irina Bibikova And Catherine Cooke
3: Edgar Snow
4: Safdar Hashmi
5: Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz
6: Alisa Solomon
7: Dubravka Knezevic
Part Two: Witness
2: Introduction
8: Steven Durland
9: Diana Taylor
10: Marguerite Waller
11: Jan Cohen-Cruz
12: Dan Sullivan
13: Sudipto Chatterjee
14: Hollis Giammatteo
Part Three: Integration
3: Introduction
15: Augusto Boal
16: Adrian Piper
17: Lauren Berlant and Elizabeth Freeman
18: from THE DIMENSION OF SOCIAL EXTERIORITY IN THE PRODUCTION
19: Living on the Street
20: from TAKING DIRECT ACTION
Part Four: Utopia
4: Introduction
21: from Triumph Des Willens (Triumph of the Will, 1935)
22: Notes on Political Street Theatre, Paris
23: from Letter from the South of Italy
24: America has more Television Sets than Toilets
25: from The Street is the Stages
26: from The Celebratory Performance of John fox and Welfare State International
Part Five: Tradition
5: Introduction
27: Health Theatre in a Hmong Refugee Camp
28: Communal Space and Performance in Africa
29: from The Language of African Theatre
30: from EL Teatro Campesino and the Mexican Popular Performance Tradition
31: The Taumbayan as Epic Hero,the Audience as Community
32: A Queer Circus Amok in New York
33: Louder than Traffic Bread and Puppet Parades
34: Notes toward an Unwritten History of Anti-apartheid Street Performance