Alexandrowicz Acting Queer

Gender Dissidence and the Subversion of Realism
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-29318-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 225 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book is situated at the intersection of queer/gender studies and theories of acting pedagogy and performance. It explores the social and cultural matrix in which matters of gender are negotiated, including that of post-secondary theatre and drama education. It identifies the predicament of gender dissident actors who must contend with the widespread enforcement of realist paradigms within the academy, and proposes a re-imagining of the way drama/theatre/performance are practised in order to serve more fairly and effectively the needs of queer actors in training. This is located within a larger project of critique in reference to the art form as a whole. 
The book stimulates discussion among practitioners and scholars on matters concerning various kinds of diversity: of gender expression, of approaches to the teaching of acting, and to the way the art form may be imagined and executed in the early years of the 21st Century, in particular in the face of the climate crisis. But it is also an aid to practitioners who are seeking new theoretical and practical approaches to dealing with gender diversity in acting pedagogy. 

Conrad Alexandrowicz is Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Victoria, Canada. He is a director, writer and choreographer, and the artistic director of Wild Excursions Performance. To date he has created over fifty choreographies, dance- and physical-theatre pieces, plays and performance works, some of which have been presented across Canada, in New York City, France and the U.K. He specializes in movement for actors and physical theatre creation, directs mainstage productions, and continues his explorations into that mysterious territory where dance and theatre overlap. He recently completed an extensive research project on the staging of poetry with actors and dancers funded by Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. His work has been published in Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, the Canadian Journal for Practice-Based Research in Theatre and Studies in Theatre and Performance.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alexandrowicz, Conrad

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;5
2;Contents;6
3;About the Author;7
4;Chapter 1: Introduction: Why Write This Book Now?;8
4.1;‘Straight-Looking, Straight-Acting’;12
4.2;Aren’t We There Yet?;14
4.3;“Words, Words, Words”: Some Attempts at Definition;21
4.4;‘Queer’: Are We Fed up with It Yet?;28
4.5;Overview;30
5;Chapter 2: ‘You’re Soaking in It’: The Socio-Cultural Bath;33
5.1;Pierre Bourdieu: Field, Capital, and Habitus;36
5.2;The Regime of the Pink and the Blue;39
5.3;Toys Are Indeed Us: “Why Does [sic] All the Girls Have to Buy Pink Stuff?”;42
5.4;“Dude, You’re a Fag”;46
5.5;The Effects of Video Games;47
5.6;“Bring on the Shirtless Men”: The (Relatively) New Objectification of the Male Body;49
5.7;Conclusion;51
6;Chapter 3: The Influence of Hollywood;55
6.1;The Early Decades;56
6.2;The Case of Rock Hudson;63
6.3;Out on Screen;66
6.4;Playing Gay and Playing Straight;70
6.5;Conclusion;76
7;Chapter 4: Gender Dissidence;78
7.1;Male ‘Femininity’: How You Walk and How You Talk;79
7.2;‘Gay Voice’;81
7.3;‘Straight-Looking, Straight-Acting’;87
7.4;Female ‘Masculinity’: Too Butch to Play Juliet?;90
7.5;Being Butch in Public;95
7.6;Drag Kings and Venus Boyz;97
7.7;Transgender Matters;100
7.8;Transitions;107
7.9;Desistance;109
7.10;De-transition—or Re-transition?;110
7.11;Conclusion;115
8;Chapter 5: Gendered Movement and ‘Physical’ Acting;117
8.1;Gendered Movement and the Drag King;118
8.2;‘Performance’ Versus ‘Performativity’;119
8.3;Laban Movement Analysis;121
8.4;Still Forms;121
8.5;Effort Factors;123
8.6;Action Drives;124
8.7;Text Versus the Body;126
8.8;Some Lineages;129
8.9;Do What I Do and What I Say;139
8.10;‘Code-Switching’;140
8.11;Meghan Plays Yitzhak;141
9;Chapter 6: ‘Queer-Looking, Queer-Acting’: The Subversion of Realism;144
9.1;Realism Versus the Postdramatic;146
9.2;The Show Is in Your Head;150
9.3;Queerly Post-dramatic;151
9.4;Reconsidering Bertolt Brecht;154
9.5;Swimming Upstream?;156
9.6;Some Queer Theatre History;157
9.7;Queer Instances;160
10;Chapter 7: Acting Queer Ecology: Extensions and Excursions;170
10.1;Queer Ecology;173
10.2;Performing the Ecological Thought;179
10.3;Making “Species Theatre”;183
10.4;Connection to Indigenous Epistemology;187
11;Works Cited;193
12;Index;206