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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817393503321

Autore

Cohen-Cruz Jan <1950->

Titolo

Engaging performance [[electronic resource] ] : theatre as call and response / / Jan Cohen-Cruz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, England ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

9780203847695

9780415472135

9780415472142

1-136-94307-2

9786613832320

1-283-51987-9

1-136-94308-0

0-203-84769-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 pages) ; : illustrations

Disciplina

306.4/8480973

Soggetti

Theater and society - United States

Community theater - United States

Drama in community development - United States

Drama - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; Kinship among engaged performance practices; Purposes of writing this book; Book organization: centers of gravity of engaged performance --

Introduction -- 1. Playwrighting: Putting plays to use -- 2. Specta(c)ting: Theatre of the oppressed, orthodoxy and adaptation -- 3. Self-representing: Testimonial performance -- 4. Cultural organizing: Multiple modes of communication -- 5. Gathering assets: The art of local resources -- 6. Particularizing place: Revitalizing cities and neighborhoods -- 7. Training: An engaged artist prepares -- Afterword: The centrality of relationships in engaging performance --



APPENDIX -- 1. Selected adaptations, Cornerstone Theater -- 2. Roadside Theater's story circle methodology -- 3. Values and mission statement, Community Arts and Higher Education Partnership -- 4. Criteria, Syracuse Public Art Commission -- 5. Resources from The Curriculum Project Research.

Sommario/riassunto

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 perfromance 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." --

Cohen-Cruz also draws on the work of major theoreticians, including Bertolt Brecht, Augusto Boal, and Dorean Massey, as well as analyzing in-depth case studies of the work of US practitioners today to illustrate engaged performance in action.--