Exercises for rebel artists : radical performance pedagogy / Guillermo Gomez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes ; consultant editor, Rachel Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gómez-Peña, Guillermo, author.

Contributor:

Rogers, Rachel.

Sifuentes, Roberto, 1967-

Series:

Drama and theatre studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Performance art--Study and teaching.

Performance art.

Artists--Training of--Activity programs.

Artists.

Cross-cultural orientation--Activity programs.

Cross-cultural orientation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011.

Summary:

In Exercises for Rebel Artists, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes use their extensive teaching and performance experience with La Pocha Nostra to help students and practitioners to create 'border art'. Designed to take readers right into the heart of radical performance, the authors use a series of crucial practical exercises, honed in workshops worldwide, to help create challenging theatre which transcends the boundaries of nation, gender, and racial identity. The book features: Detailed exercises for using Pocha Nostra methods in workshops Inspirational approaches for anyone creating, producing or teaching radical performance A step-by-step guide for large-scale group performance New, unpublished photos of the Pocha Nostra method in practice Exercises for Rebel Artists advocates teaching as an important form of activism and as an extension of the performance aesthetic. It is an essential text for anyone who wants to learn how use performance to both challenge and change.

Contents:

Introduction : performance as radical pedagogy : a brief history of the 'Pocha method' / Guillermo Gomez-Peña

Aims and motivations of a Pocha Nostra performance workshop

Notes to producers and workshop facilitators : useful suggestions for preparing a performance workshop inspired by La Pocha Nostra

Identifying and preparing the space

Important notes to workshop participants

Words to try to avoid when conducting a workshop

Performance exercises, rituals, and games to cross borders

Syllabus for performance workshops

Humble advice for emerging performance artists

In a permanent process of reinvention (a conversation)

Letter from Oaxaca : performing in the flames / Guillermo Gomez-Peña

Mapping territories of inquiry : poetic/performance texts generated by workshop participants.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-35371-7

9786613353719

0-203-83042-3

1-136-82223-2

9780203830420

OCLC:

767498132