Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange

Vectors of the Radical
2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-31707-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

Reihe: Performance Interventions

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sell, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; M.Sell PART I: INTERSECTIONS Introduction; J.Harding From Italy and Russia to France and the U.S.: 'Fascist' Futurism and Balanchine's 'American' Ballet; P.Gaborik & A.Harris Confessions of a Failed Theatre Activist: Intercultural Encounters in Uganda and Rwanda; L.Edmondson   The Living Theatre's Arrested Development in Brazil: An Intersection of Activist Performances; C.Rosenthal PART II: TRANSLATIONS Introduction; J.Graham-Jones 'Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought': Anarchism and the Introduction of Modern Western Theatre to China; S.Liu Translation, Typography, and the Avant-Garde's Impossible Text; S.Bay-Cheng Maoist Performatives: Milton Acorn and the Canadian Liberation Movement; A.Filewod PART III: DIVERGENCES Introduction; A.Filewod   Avant-Garde Becomes Nationalism: Immortalizing Nam June Paik in South Korea; E.Kim Lee The Avant-Garde and the Arab World; M.Sell The Avant-Garde of Necessity: The Protest Theatre Movement in Zimbabwe; P.Zenenga Punk Attitude: The Influence of the Avant-Garde and the Case of Ian Stuart Donaldson; G.White Afterword The Avant-Garde and Vector Studies: A Roundtable Index

Über Autor(innen)

LAURA EDMONDSON Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, USA
ALAN FILEWOD Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Canada
PATRICIA GABORIK Independent Scholar, Italy
JEAN GRAHAM-JONES Professor of Theatre, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA
JAMES HARDING Professor of English, University of Mary Washington, USA
ANDREA HARRIS Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
KIMBERLY JANNARONE Associate Professor of Theater Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
ESTHER KIM LEE Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and the Asian American Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
SIYUAN LIU Assistant Professor of Theatre, University of British Columbia, Canada.
CINDY ROSENTHAL Associate Professor of Drama and Dance, Hofstra University, USA
GRAHAM WHITE Reader in Drama and Creative Practice, Roehampton University, UK
PRAISE ZENENGA Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Program, University of Arizona at Tucson, USA