Christopher 'Kit' Danowski

Performing with the Dead (eBook, ePUB)

Trances and Traces

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Performing with the Dead is a methodology for incorporating concepts drawn from ancestor trance in Afrolatinx ritual for actors trained in western methods. Working toward an understanding of the performer's lived experience while performing, Danowski draws on knowledge of trance from Lukumí and Palo Monte ritual practices to reconsider performance in relation to mediumship.

The book outlines the construction of a methodology called Kanga (from the Bantu for tying and untying), using three methods based on aspects of Afrolatinx ritual, articulated as spell, charm and trance. This methodology also engages with (and complicates) traditional distinctions between performance and ritual, serving as a contribution to respectful and responsible intercultural performance practices.

Kangs is designed to lead performers to a state of consciousness where reality is co-constituted by the living and the dead, drawing upon living relationships with ancestral spirits to create theatrical worlds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Intellect Books
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781835950203
• Artikelnr.: 70427082

Autorenporträt

Dr. Christopher (Kit) Danowski (xe/xem) has an MFA in Playwriting and Fiction from Arizona State University, and a PhD through the University of Plymouth (U.K.) and Transart Institute for Creative Practice (Berlin). Danowski has presented performance work and spoken word in Phoenix, Brooklyn, Berlin, Krakow, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Brighton, among other places.