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Chocolate Woman dreams the Milky Way : mapping embodied indigenous performance / Monique Mojica and Brenda Farnell ; with contributions by Jill Carter, José A. Colman, Ric Knowles, Sue Patricia Haglund, and Gloria Miquel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mojica, Monique, 1954- author.
- Farnell, Brenda M. (Brenda Margaret), author.
- Series:
- Theater--theory/text/performance
- Theater: Theory/text/performance
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mojica, Monique, 1954- Chocolate Woman dreams the Milky Way--Dramatic production.
- Mojica, Monique.
- Indigenous peoples--Drama--History and criticism.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Indigenous peoples--Drama.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 135 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This volume documents the creation of Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, a play written and performed by Monique Mojica with collaborators from diverse disciplines. Inspired by the pictographic writing and mola textiles of the Guna, an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia, the book explores Mojica's unique approach to the performance process. Her method activates an Indigenous theatrical process that privileges the body in contrast to Western theater's privileging of the written text, and rethinks the role of land, body, and movement, as well as dramatic story-structure and performance style. Co-authored with anthropologist Brenda Farnell, the book challenges the divide between artist and scholar, and addresses the many levels of cultural, disciplinary, and linguistic translations required to achieve this. Placing the complex intellect inherent to Indigenous Knowledges at its center, the book engages Indigenous performance theory, and concepts that link body, land, and story, such as terra nullius/corpus nullius, mapping, pattern literacy, land literacy, and movement literacy. Enhanced by contributions from other artists and scholars, the book challenges Eurocentric ideologies about what counts as "performance" and what is required from an "audience," as well as long-standing body-mind dualisms.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135) and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472221165
- 0472221167
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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