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.

Contributor:

Farnell, Brenda.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (165 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

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.

Contents:

Contents

Editorial Note

Contributors

Foreword . . . Forward

Prologue

Chapter 1: Mola Dulad Agbanaed (Living Mola Moving)

Chapter 2: Dule Wagan Reading Molas

Chapter 3: The Road to Gunayala

Chapter 4: Working Process for Mapping Embodied Performance

Chapter 5: The Making of Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way

Chapter 6: Scoring the Body

Chapter 7: Intersections

Chocolate Woman Dreams The Milky Way

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-135) and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Mojica, Monique Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way

ISBN:

9780472221165

0472221167

OCLC:

1376446835