Utopia in Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Utopia in Performance write by Jill Dolan. This book was released on 2010-02-05. Utopia in Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish and hold close as a personal favorite, and that scholars will cite for years to come." ---David Román, University of Southern California What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a theater, hoping to be moved and provoked, challenged and comforted? In Utopia in Performance, Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional, and social connection that we experience at such times, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social change. She traces these "utopian performatives" in a range of performances, including the solo performances of feminist artists Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin, and Peggy Shaw; multicharacter solo performances by Lily Tomlin, Danny Hoch, and Anna Deavere Smith; the slam poetry event Def Poetry Jam; The Laramie Project; Blanket, a performance by postmodern choreographer Ann Carlson; Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; and Deborah Warner's production of Medea starring Fiona Shaw. While the book richly captures moments of "feeling utopia" found within specific performances, it also celebrates the broad potential that performance has to provide a forum for being human together; for feeling love, hope, and commonality in particular and historical (rather than universal and transcendent) ways.
Performing Utopia
Performing Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performing Utopia write by Rachel Bowditch. This book was released on 2017. Performing Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her landmark study Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, Jill Dolan departed from historical writings on utopia, which suggest that social reorganization and the redistribution of wealth are utopian efforts, to argue instead that utopia occurs in fragmentary "utopian moments," often found embedded within performance. While Dolan focused on the utopian performative within a theatrical context, this volume, edited by Rachel Bowditch and Pegge Vissicaro, expands her theories to encompass performance in public life--from diasporic hip-hop battles, Chilean military parades, commemorative processions, Blackfoot powwows, and post-Katrina Mardi Gras to the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, Festas Juninas in Brazil, the Renaissance Fairs in Arizona, and neoburlesque competitions. How do these performances rehearse and enact visions of a utopic world? What can the lens of utopia and dystopia illuminate about the potential of performing bodies to transform communities, identities, values, and beliefs across time? Performing Utopia not only answers these questions, but offers a diverse collection of case studies focusing on utopias, dystopias, and heterotopias enacted through the performing body.
Performance, Space, Utopia
Performance, Space, Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Performance, Space, Utopia write by S. Jestrovic. This book was released on 2012-11-13. Performance, Space, Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Over 20 years after the war in Yugoslavia, this book looks back at its two most iconic cities and the phenomenon of exile emerging as a consequence of living in them in the 1990s. It uses examples ranging from street interventions to theatre performances to explore the making of urban counter-sites through theatricality and utopian performatives.
The Feminist Spectator as Critic
The Feminist Spectator as Critic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Feminist Spectator as Critic write by Jill Dolan. This book was released on 1991. The Feminist Spectator as Critic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Extends the feminist analysis of representation to the realm of performance
Cruising Utopia
Cruising Utopia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cruising Utopia write by José Esteban Muñoz. This book was released on 2009-11-30. Cruising Utopia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session
