Theatre, Performance and Change

Description

This book works to 'make change strange' from and for the field of theatre and performance studies. Growing from the idea that change is an under-interrogated category that over-determines theatre and performance as an artistic, social, educational, and material practice, the scholars and practitioners gathered here (including specialists in theatre history and literature, educational theatre, youth arts, arts policy, socially invested theatre, and activist performance) take up the question of change in thirty-five short essays. For anyone who has wondered about the relationships between theatre, performance and change itself, this book is an essential conversation starter. Front Matter ....Pages i-lv Introduction (Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Tamara Underiner)....Pages 1-8 Taking the Mic: Hip Hop’s Call for Change (Daniel Banks)....Pages 9-14 Rehearsing Citizenship: Performance as Public Practice in the Undergraduate Curriculum (Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Charlotte M. Canning)....Pages 15-29 Street Performers Working for Change (David Calder)....Pages 31-37 The Third Space: Inter-Cultural Youth Performance as a Catalyst for Change (Young Ai Choi)....Pages 39-46 Uncommon Partnerships (Jan Cohen-Cruz)....Pages 47-55 Reflections on School Change Through the Arts (Kathryn Dawson)....Pages 57-66 n = 1 (Linda Essig)....Pages 67-70 Denouement: Notes on the End(s) of Activism (John Fletcher)....Pages 71-80 Making Change: Performance and the Workings of the Event (Marcela A. Fuentes)....Pages 81-87 Adding to the Dialogue with Latina/o Plays for Young Audiences (Lorenzo Garcia)....Pages 89-98 An Environment of Cascading Consequences (Nadine George-Graves)....Pages 99-109 Creating a Populist Theatre (Jamie Haft)....Pages 111-121 Laying the Groundwork for Dramatic Results: ASSITEJ’s Next Generation (Norifumi Hida)....Pages 123-132 Fifty Years of Chicano Theatre: Mapping the Face(s) of the New American Theatre (Jorge A. Huerta)....Pages 133-143 In the Heights at the University of Pittsburgh: Failures, Successes and Change (Lisa Jackson-Schebetta)....Pages 145-154 Choreography, Connections and Change (Elizabeth Johnson)....Pages 155-163 The Journey Matters: Agency Through Artistry (Daniel A. Kelin II)....Pages 165-171 “Of Change” (Michal Kobialka)....Pages 173-181 Testing the Waters of Change in the Classroom: The Case for Incremental Transformation in Teacher Practice (Bridget Kiger Lee, Patricia Enciso)....Pages 183-191 Racial Justice Activism and Equitable Partnerships: Theories of Change from Theatres of Color (Stephanie Lein Walseth)....Pages 193-204 Social Imaginaries and Theatre (Robert H. Leonard)....Pages 205-211 Radical Creativity as a Lever for Social Change: Why it Matters, What it Takes (Ruby Lerner)....Pages 213-222 Why Do They Think This Is Okay? Critiquing Performance as a Means for Change (Scott Magelssen)....Pages 223-233 What We Left Behind in Our Race to the Top: Education Reform Goes Metaformative (Mary McAvoy)....Pages 235-245 The Aesthetics of Inclusion (Talleri A. McRae)....Pages 247-252 Changes, Everything Changes (Cambia, todo cambia) (Carlos Morton)....Pages 253-259 Big History (Tobin Nellhaus)....Pages 261-269 100 Questions 3 Ideas 1 Story and a Ghost (Michael Rohd)....Pages 271-279 SHIFT2 (Jon D. Rossini)....Pages 281-284 “The Odéon is Open”: Performative Politics and the Paris 1968 Uprising (Alan Sikes)....Pages 285-294 Despite Artists’ Intentions, Emancipated Spectatorship Reinforces Audience Members’ Existing Attitudes and Beliefs (Dani Snyder-Young)....Pages 295-301 The Breath of Change or How to Stay Awake When the World Desires Sleep and Other Thoughts About Theatre, Performance and Bowie’s “Ch-Changes” (Caridad Svich)....Pages 303-309 The Waning of Affect, the End of the Liberal Project, and the Rehearsal of Social Change: A Page from the Millennial Playbook (E. J. Westlake)....Pages 311-321 (Inter)Disciplinary Change (W. B. Worthen)....Pages 323-332 The Administrator as Activist (Patricia Ybarra)....Pages 333-335 And …? (Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Tamara Underiner)....Pages 337-344