Engaging Performance: Theatre as call and response

Cohen-Cruz, Jan

ISBN 10: 041547213X / ISBN 13: 9780415472135

Published by Routledge, 2010

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Presents a combined analysis to examine 'socially engaged performance'. This title offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using performance to engage in a variety of social and artistic projects. Num Pages: 240 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AN; ASZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 498. . 2010. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Engaging Performance: Theatre as call and response
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 041547213X
• ISBN 13: 9780415472135
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine "socially engaged performance." It offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using performance to engage in a variety of social and artistic projects. Author

Jan Cohen-Cruz draws on a career of groundbreaking research and work within the fields of political, applied, and community theatre to explore the impact of how differing genres of theatre respond to social "calls."

Areas highlighted include:

• playwrighting and the engaged artist
• theatre of the oppressed
• performance as testimonial
• the place of engaged art in cultural organizing
• the use of local resources in engaged art
• revitalizing cities and neighborhoods through engaged performance
• training of the engaged artist.

Cohen-Cruz also draws on the work of major theoreticians, including Bertolt Brecht, Augusto Boal, and Doreen Massey, as well as analyzing in-depth case studies of the work of US practitioners today to illustrate engaged performance in action.

Jan Cohen-Cruz is director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. She is the author of Local Acts: Community-based Performance in the US; the editor of Radical Street Performance; co-editor, with Mady Schutzman, of Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism and A Boal Companion; and a University Professor at Syracuse University.

About the Author

Jan Cohen-Cruz is director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life. She is the author of Local Acts: Community Performance in the US; the editor of Radical Street Performance; co-editor, with Mady Schutzman, of Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism and A Boal Companion; and a University Professor at Syracuse University.