The Routledge companion to applied performance. Volume one, Mainland Europe, North and Latin America, Southern Africa, and Australia and New Zealand. / edited by Tim Prentki and Ananda Breed.

Format:

Book

Series:

Routledge theatre and performance companions.

Routledge theatre and performance companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theater and society.

Performing arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of figures

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction to volume one: Considering the ethics of representation in applied theatre

Australia and New Zealand

Western Europe

North America

The Balkans

Latin America

Southern Africa

References

Part I Australia and New Zealand

Introduction to Part I: Considering the ethics of representation in applied theatre

Introduction

Story ownership: considering the conflicting rights of the individual and the collective

Positioning and power relations: considering the ethics of inclusion and ownership

Accuracy or artistry: representing the affective nature of experience

The politics of editing: which parts of the story (not) to tell?

Colonisation, collaboration and captivities: exploring ethics of engagement within prison theatre

Trauma and transformative experience: considering ethics of representation in recovery theatre

Impact, effect and affect: considering the possibility of unintended negative consequences

Economies of care: creating enabling spaces for cultural safety and system change

Therapeutic theatre: relational encounters with strangers in care

Drawing some conclusions

Chapter 1 Identifying and understanding the notion of quality within an applied theatre project designed to playfully engage people living with dementia

Informing literature

Practice approach

Research approach

The setting

The vignettes

Vignette one

Vignette two

Vignette three

Conclusion

Note

Chapter 2 Repairing the evil: Staging Puppet Antigone (2017) at Auckland Prison

Introduction: the colonial legacy, the prison community and puppets

Tangihanga: respect for the dead

Tiresias: a blind tohunga.

Whaikōrero and the art of oratory

Bunraku puppets, manaaki, and an ethics of care

Repairing the evil

Notes

Chapter 3 Taurima Vibes: Economies of manaakitanga and care in Aotearoa New Zealand

Two perspectives

Tikanga Māori and wellbeing as a kaupapa for performance practice (Bōni)

Rethinking the economies of applied performance (Molly)

The context

Taurima Vibes: Kaupapa, whānau, mahi

Economies of care and manaaki

The Puāwai Festival

Final comments

Chapter 4 Small acts at the margins: Making theatre work at cross-cultural intersections

Day one

The spark

Meeting Moogahlin

Finding the play

History, country and context

On country with Uncle Max

Rehearsal

Inside the third space (Bhabha, 1990)

Chapter 5 The art of listening in prison: Creating audio drama with incarcerated women

Prelude

Background

The "Floating Brothel" and Australia's colonial legacy of female incarceration

Participatory audio drama, intimacy, and acoustic agency

Listening across time, distance, and difference

Ethical tensions: Compromising acoustic agency

Author's note

Part II The Balkans

Introduction to Part II and III: Memory, identity and the (ab)use of representation

Chapter 6 Performing the otherness: Representation of the invisible communities in post-conflict and post-communist societies: Croatian example

Chapter 7 The bridge to hope: Applied theatre in post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina

Chapter 8 Theatre against violence, action in classrooms

Entitled to a Mistake

Bottom(s up)

Lie

Turn On Your Computer, Turn On Your Brain

2042 AD.

Chapter 9 Interview with Vladimir Krušić: Theatre and drama in education

Chapter 10 In search of polyphonic concepts of participatory theatre and art for social change: Almost half a century of engagement

Theatre of participation: a polyphonic concept

"Living Together"

"Art for Social Change: Play Against Violence"

"DICE - Drama Improves Lisbon Key Competences in Education"

New Creative Choices - Building an Open System of Educational Theatre and Drama for Enhancing Roma Inclusion

Applied theatre platform

Bitef Polyphony

Instead of a conclusion

Chapter 11 Giving voice to the voiceless: Raising awareness and spurring debate on the Homeland War (1991-1995) in Croatian theatre

The war in Croatian theatre and playwriting (1990-2004)

A step forward in Croatian war playwriting: dealing with the uncomfortable past (2005-2018)

Plays (in the order that they appear in the chapter)

Part III North America

Chapter 12 Examining the ethics of research-based theatre through Contact!Unload

Contact!Unload

Conceptualizing and researching

Developing

Producing

Performing

Witnessing

Evaluating

Chapter 13 We are here: Glyphing a re-creation story through waterways, bloodlines and constellations

You are here: remembering the bitter Earth

You are here: re-emplacement as survivance-intervention

You are here: remembrance, acknowledgement and re-orientation

We are here: the personal cosmography as contemporary "futurity practice"

Chapter 14 Applied performance practices of therapeutic clowns: A curated conversation with Helen Donnelly

References.

Chapter 15 Playback Theatre conductor as ritual guide: The artful and sensitive job of extracting personal stories

A cold warm-up

To be heard

Lost at sea

Freedom

Chapter 16 Theatre to address social justice issues with gatekeepers in Canada

Reform and revolution: approaches to addressing social justice

Applied theatre to address social justice issues

Applied performance

Chapter 17 Tensions of engagement: Oscillating between distance and implication

Grappling with the margins of society

Obstacles

Protocols of engagement

"Return to the Nile"

Chapter 18 Questioning social justice: A dialogue on performance, activism, and being in-between

Chapter 19 Timely homecomings

Improvised entry points

Interval passageways

Concrete arrivals

Unsettling resettlement

Chapter 20 The arrivals legacy process: Reviving Ancestral stories of recovery and return

The process

The village journey

Decolonizing strategies

The body's wisdom

Where are we now?

Chapter 21 Applying Hamilton

Part IV Latin America

Introduction to Part IV: Applied performance in Latin America

Politico-historical context

Communal living culture

Chapter 22 The body, women, and performance art in Latin America

Women and violence

Stereotypes and socially imposed roles

Everyday life

Art and the media

Ritual

Chapter 23 Dance as a tool for the construction of peace and identity

Political context

Experience 1

Experience 2

Conclusions

Chapter 24 We play as we mean to resist: Theatre games as political participation

The potentials and problems of play

Joy as resistance? At the crossroads between affect and effect

The invisibles: to resist from within

Chapter 25 Communal living culture: From the many to the few, from the few to the many

The journey thus far

The journey ahead

Summary

Reference

Chapter 26 Latent conflict or latency in conflict: The liminal space between art actions and the Chilean civic-military dictatorship

Latency in conflict and the liminal space of 'applied performance'

Contextual emergency: the civic-military dictatorship in Chile

Conflict in latency: art actions, the CADA, Janet Toro, and Mujeres por la Vida

Chapter 27 The community and its gaze: Argentine community theater

The gaze

The history

The proponents

The epic, the aesthetics

Inclusion, celebration

Relations with the state

Community theater and social transformation

The movement

Bibliography

Chapter 28 Three community experiences and a resignation

Dingki-Dingki in the Time of AIDS (2003)

Note on the program

Tree That Tells Stories, or, the Mining Illusion (2000)3

The spirit of a tree

About the work

The Dance of Souls (1996)

Letter of resignation5

Part V Southern Africa

Introduction to Part V: Applied performance in Southern Africa

Chapter 29 Romio ndi Julieti (Romeo and Juliet): Chichewa language production of a serious drama

Historical, political, and cultural context

Workshops

Rehearsals and production

Chapter 30 Rituals (2010) as a counter narrative of healing and reconciliation in Zimbabwe

Theoretical framework.

Background and production data.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781351120142

135112014X

9781351120128

1351120123

OCLC:

1226593993