ABSTRACT
Community Performance: A Reader is the first book to provide comprehensive teaching materials for this significant part of the theatre studies curriculum. It brings together core writings and critical approaches to community performance work, presenting practices in the UK, USA, Australia and beyond.
Offering a comprehensive anthology of key writings in the vibrant field of community performance, spanning dance, theatre and visual practices, this Reader uniquely combines classic writings from major theorists and practitioners such as Augusto Boal, Paolo Freire, Dwight Conquergood and Jan Cohen Cruz, with newly commissioned essays that bring the anthology right up to date with current practice.
This book can be used as a stand-alone text, or together with its companion volume, Community Performance: An Introduction, to offer an accessible and classroom-friendly introduction to the field of community performance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|88 pages
Pedagogical communities
chapter Chapter 5|9 pages
Tactile and vocal communities in Urban Bush Women’s Shelter and Praise House
chapter Chapter 6|14 pages
Performing as a Moral Act 1
part Two|52 pages
Relations
chapter Chapter 13|7 pages
Home is Where the Walls Speak in Familiar Ways
part Three|50 pages
Environments
chapter Chapter 15|12 pages
Preferring a drama-based model for sustainable development advocacy
chapter Chapter 17|6 pages
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part Four|36 pages
Rituals, embodiment, challenge
part Five|46 pages
Practices