Engaging performance : theatre as call and response / / Jan Cohen-Cruz
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| Autore: |
Cohen-Cruz Jan <1950->
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| Titolo: |
Engaging performance : theatre as call and response / / Jan Cohen-Cruz
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| Pubblicazione: | Abingdon, England ; ; New York, NY : , : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, , 2010 |
| ©2010 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 pages) ; : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 306.4/8480973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Theater and society - United States |
| Community theater - United States | |
| Drama in community development - United States | |
| Drama - Social aspects - United States | |
| 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.-- | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Engaging performance |
| ISBN: | 9780203847695 |
| 9780415472135 | |
| 9780415472142 | |
| 1-136-94307-2 | |
| 9786613832320 | |
| 1-283-51987-9 | |
| 1-136-94308-0 | |
| 0-203-84769-5 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817393503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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