Avant-garde performance and material exchange : vectors of the radical / edited by Mike Sell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sell, Mike, 1967-

Series:

Performance interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental theater--Political aspects.

Experimental theater.

Experimental theater--Social aspects.

Performing arts--Political aspects.

Performing arts.

Performing arts--Social aspects.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

xi, 228 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Contents:

Introduction. Vectors of the radical / Mike Sell

Intersections. Introduction / James M. Harding

From Italy and Russia to France and the U.S. : 'fascist' futurism and Balanchine's 'American' ballet / Patricia Gaborik and Andrea Harris

Confessions of a failed theatre activist : intercultural encounters in Uganda and Rwanda / Laura Edmondson

The living theatre's arrested development in Brazil : an intersection of activist performances / Cindy Rosenthal

Translations. Introduction / Jean Graham-Jones

'Powerful disseminator of radical thought' : anarchism and the introduction of modern western theatre to China / Siyuan Liu

Translation, typography, and the avant-garde's impossible text / Sarah Bay-Cheng

Maoist performatives : Milton Acorn and the Canadian liberation movement / Alan Filewod

Divergences. Introduction / Alan Filewod

Avant-garde becomes nationalism : immortalizing Nam June Paik in South Korea / Esther Kim Lee

The avant-garde of necessity : the protest theatre movement in Zimbabwe / Praise Zenenga

The Ians in the audience : punk attitude and the influence of the avant-garde / Graham White

Afterword. The avant-garde and vector studies : a roundtable / Alan Filewod ... [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230241343

0230241344

OCLC:

656850372