ABSTRACT

The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond.

These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere of English-speaking scholarship, curated by regional experts in applied performance. The reader will gain an understanding of some of the dominant preoccupations of performance in specified regions, enhanced by contextual framing. From the dis(h)arming of the human body through dance in Colombia to clowning with dementia in Australia, via challenges to violent nationalism in the Balkans, transgender performance in Pakistan and resistance rap in Kashmir, the essays, interviews and scripts are eloquent testimony to the courage and hope of people who believe in the power of art to renew the human spirit.

Students, academics, practitioners, policy-makers, cultural anthropologists and activists will benefit from the opportunities to forge new networks and develop in-depth comparative research offered by this bold, global project.

part I|64 pages

Brazil

chapter 5|6 pages

Every patrol car has a little of the slave ship

The emergency of the listening place

chapter 7|7 pages

Paraíso do Tuiuti: “I am not a slave of no master”

The carnival of 2018 stars in the political debate about the 2016 coup in Brazil

chapter 8|7 pages

The power of subtle learning

Directions and achievements of the Heliópolis Theatre Company

part II|76 pages

West Africa

chapter 9|9 pages

Functional arts

Theatre praxis in Burkina Faso

chapter 10|11 pages

Conversation

A folktale-based community play as a model for stimulating community development

chapter 11|11 pages

Geographies of conflict

Resolving farmer-herdsmen conflict through street theatre

chapter 12|17 pages

Politics of/and performance spaces in the Theatre of Social Action

Two decades of Segun Adefila’s Crown Troupe of Africa

chapter 13|15 pages

Applied performances in Burkina Faso

Methodological and topographical overview and challenges

chapter 14|11 pages

The Anglophone problem in Cameroon

Participatory theatre and video construal

part III|122 pages

South Asia

chapter |14 pages

Introduction to part III

Framing the South Asian Discourse

chapter 15|12 pages

Queer performativities in contemporary Pakistan

A genealogical approach

chapter 16|10 pages

Of stones, songs, and freedom

Languages of resistance in Kashmir

chapter 17|11 pages

Curfews of thought

chapter 19|7 pages

Street theatre in Afghanistan

A roundtable

chapter 20|13 pages

A conversation

The Third Tune (Teesri Dhun)

chapter 21|9 pages

Shat Bhai Chompa

A sociodrama in an urban slum of Dhaka City

chapter 22|11 pages

Storytelling through Playback Theatre

Building a collective consciousness to promote social cohesion in Nepal

chapter 23|14 pages

Transforming trauma in post-conflict settings

Ethnographic evidence from a social circus project in Afghanistan

part IV|20 pages

The Arab World

chapter 25|8 pages

Empowerment, capacity building, and freedom

Expression of women through theater

chapter 26|10 pages

Street theater in Tunisia

Fanni Raghman Anni (case study)

part V|68 pages

The United Kingdom

chapter |10 pages

Introduction to part V

Performances of Age (UK)

chapter 27|11 pages

Six Songs for Paul

How The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company transform experience into expertise

chapter 28|14 pages

‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love’

Staging relational care with Lois Weaver and Split Britches

chapter 29|7 pages

Welcome to The Posh Club

How high status and low stakes can help build better worlds for marginalised people

chapter 30|9 pages

In the company of others

Entelechy Arts, co-creating with older people

chapter 31|8 pages

Magic Me

Interview with Chuck Blue Lowry, Kate Hodson, Susan Langford, Sue Mayo and Julian West

chapter 32|7 pages

Having dementia shouldn’t exclude you from cultural experiences

An interview with Nicky Taylor, theatre and dementia research associate, Leeds Playhouse

part VI|70 pages

South East Asia

chapter |4 pages

Introduction to part VI

South East Asia and China: performances of age

chapter 33|10 pages

Putting dialogue in context

Negotiating contextual influence in applying dialogue theatre

chapter 35|8 pages

Glowing with age

chapter 36|11 pages

Contemporary issues and challenges in applying performance

The case of theatre in education in Hong Kong

chapter 37|9 pages

Deceptive simplicity

chapter 38|8 pages

Rethinking the research on Both Sides, Now

An arts-based community engagement project on end-of-life in Singapore

chapter 39|6 pages

Performances of ‘what if’ and ‘as if’

Exploring plausible futures through imaginal and vicarious experiences in playbuilding