The Routledge companion to applied performance / edited by Tim Prentki and Ananda Breed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prentki, Tim, editor.

Breed, Ananda, editor.

Series:

Routledge companions

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater and society.

Performing arts.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Companion to applied performance

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Tim Prentki is Emeritus Professor of Theatre for Development at the University of Winchester. He is the co-editor ofThe Applied Theatre Reader (2008), author of Applied Theatre: Development (2015)and The Fool in European Theatre: Stages of Folly (2011), and co-editor with Ananda Breed of Performanceand Civic Engagement (2018). Ananda Breed is Professor in Theatre at the University of Lincoln. She is the author of Performing the Nation: Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation (2014), co-editor with Tim Prentki of Performanceand Civic Engagement(2018), and Principal Investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Informing the National Curriculum and Youth Policy for Peacebuilding in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal (2020-2024).

Summary:

"The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond. These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere of English-speaking scholarship, curated by regional experts in applied performance. The reader will gain an understanding of some of the dominant preoccupations of performance in specified regions, enhanced by contextual framing. From the dis(h)arming of the human body through dance in Colombia to clowning with dementia in Australia, via challenges to violent nationalism in the Balkans, transgender performance in Pakistan and resistance rap in Kashmir, the essays, interviews and scripts are eloquent testimony to the courage and hope of people who believe in the power of art to renew the human spirit. Students, academics, practitioners, policy-makers, cultural anthropologists and activists will benefit from the opportunities to forge new networks and develop in-depth comparative research offered by this bold, global project"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

V. 1. Mainland Europe, North and Latin America, southern Africa, and Australia and New Zealand

v. 2. Brazil, West Africa, South and South East Asia, United Kingdom and Ireland, and the Arab World

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: The Routledge companion to applied performance

ISBN:

9781351120142

135112014X

9781003088042

100308804X

9781000177053

100017705X

9781000177077

1000177076

9781000177039

1000177033

OCLC:

1157357037

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