Performance Activism: Precursors and Contemporary Pioneers
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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), x, 292 pp.
Series: Palgrave Studies in Play, Performance, Learning, and Development
ISBN 978-3-030-80591-3 (ebook); 978-3-030-80590-6 (print)
"Performance Activism: Precursors and Contemporary Pioneers provides a global overview of the growing interface of performance with education, therapy, conflict resolution, civic engagement, community development and social justice activism. It combines an historical study of the processes by which, over the course of the 20th Century, performance has been loosened from the institutional constraints of the theatre with a mosaic-like overview of the diverse work/play of contemporary performance activists around the world." (Publisher description)
1 By Way of Introduction, 1
PART I: PERFORMANCE LEAVES THE THEATRE AND JOINS THE REVOLUTION
2 Ritual, Theatre, Activism, 9
3 Agit-Prop, 17
4 Improvisation, 35
5 Psychodrama and Sociodrama, 47
6 Happenings, Be-Ins, and Flash Mobs, 59
7 Performance Art, 67
8 Avant-Garde Theatre, 75
9 Performativity and the Sixties, 95
PART II: (SOME OF) WHAT PERFORMANCE ACTIVISM DOES
10 Educating, 145
11 Politicizing, 163
12 Building Bridges, 177
13 Creating Community Conversations, 185
14 Healing Trauma, 195
15 Reinitiating Creativity, 205
16 Building Community, 211
PART III: RE-PERFORMING THE WORLD
17 Performance as a Way of Life, 237
18 Community Organizing as Performance, 249
19 Ontology, Community, Sustainability, 269
PART I: PERFORMANCE LEAVES THE THEATRE AND JOINS THE REVOLUTION
2 Ritual, Theatre, Activism, 9
3 Agit-Prop, 17
4 Improvisation, 35
5 Psychodrama and Sociodrama, 47
6 Happenings, Be-Ins, and Flash Mobs, 59
7 Performance Art, 67
8 Avant-Garde Theatre, 75
9 Performativity and the Sixties, 95
PART II: (SOME OF) WHAT PERFORMANCE ACTIVISM DOES
10 Educating, 145
11 Politicizing, 163
12 Building Bridges, 177
13 Creating Community Conversations, 185
14 Healing Trauma, 195
15 Reinitiating Creativity, 205
16 Building Community, 211
PART III: RE-PERFORMING THE WORLD
17 Performance as a Way of Life, 237
18 Community Organizing as Performance, 249
19 Ontology, Community, Sustainability, 269
