Interculturalism and Performance Now: New Directions?

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This book is the first edited collection to respond to an undeniable resurgence of critical activity around the controversial theoretical term ‘interculturalism’ in theatre and performance studies. Long one of the field’s most vigorously debated concepts, intercultural performance has typically referred to the hybrid mixture of performance forms from different cultures (typically divided along an East-West or North-South axis) and its related practices frequently charged with appropriation, exploitation or ill-founded universalism. New critical approaches since the late 2000s and early 2010s instead reveal a plethora of localized, grassroots, diasporic and historical approaches to the theory and practice of intercultural performance which make available novel critical and political possibilities for performance practitioners and scholars. This collection consolidates and pushes forward reflection on these recent shifts by offering case studies from Asia, Africa, Australasia, Latin America, North America, and Western Europe which debate the possibilities and limitations of this theoretical turn towards a ‘new’ interculturalism. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Introduction: New Directions? (Charlotte McIvor)....Pages 1-26 Front Matter ....Pages 27-27 From Scenarios to Networks: Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico (Leo Cabranes-Grant)....Pages 29-59 Routes and Routers of Interculturalism: Islands, Theatres and Shakespeares (Alvin Eng Hui Lim)....Pages 61-87 Rethinking Interculturalism Using Digital Tools (Julie Holledge, Sarah Thomasson, Joanne Tompkins)....Pages 89-111 Front Matter ....Pages 113-113 Colonial Restitution and Indigenous Vessels of Intercultural Performance: The Stalled Repatriation of the Akwiten Grandfather Canoe (Jason King)....Pages 115-131 Interculturalism, Humanitarianism, Intervention: Théâtre du Soleil in Kabul (Emine Fişek)....Pages 133-151 “Zones of Occult Instability”: A South African Perspective on Negotiating Colonial Afterlives Through Intercultural Performance (Yvette Hutchison)....Pages 153-179 New Modernist Mediations and the Intercultural Theatre of Modern Times Stage Company (Ric Knowles)....Pages 181-209 Front Matter ....Pages 211-211 Censorship and Sensitivities: Performing Tolerance in Postsecular Britain (Brian Singleton)....Pages 213-233 Playful Yellowness: Rescuing Interculturalism from Millennial Orientalism (Daphne P. Lei)....Pages 235-256 “Recognize My Face”: Phil Lynott, Scalar Interculturalism, and the Nested Figure (Justine Nakase)....Pages 257-280 Front Matter ....Pages 281-281 Intercultural Performance Ecologies in the Making: Minor(ity) Theatre and the Greek Crisis (Natasha Remoundou)....Pages 283-309 “The Future Market and the Current Reality”: Zaimoglu/Senkel’s Black Virgins and Interculturalism in the German Context (Lizzie Stewart)....Pages 311-342 Intercultural Dialogue as ‘New’ Interculturalism: Terra Nova Productions, the Arrivals Project and the Intercultural Performative (Charlotte McIvor)....Pages 343-371 Back Matter ....Pages 373-377