ABSTRACT
In Exercises for Rebel Artists, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes use their extensive teaching and performance experience with La Pocha Nostra to help students and practitioners to create ‘border art’.
Designed to take readers right into the heart of radical performance, the authors use a series of crucial practical exercises, honed in workshops worldwide, to help create challenging theatre which transcends the boundaries of nation, gender, and racial identity.
The book features:
- Detailed exercises for using Pocha Nostra methods in workshops
- Inspirational approaches for anyone creating, producing or teaching radical performance
- A step-by-step guide for large-scale group performance
- New, unpublished photos of the Pocha Nostra method in practice
Exercises for Rebel Artists advocates teaching as an important form of activism and as an extension of the performance aesthetic. It is an essential text for anyone who wants to learn how use performance to both challenge and change.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |9 pages
Introduction
chapter |4 pages
Notes to producers and workshop facilitators
part |36 pages
“Hands-on” physical and perceptual exercises
chapter |5 pages
Poetic ethnography
part |24 pages
Conceptual and poetic exercises
part |34 pages
Exercises to generate performance material and living images
chapter |4 pages
Compositional triptychs
chapter |4 pages
Bonus
part |19 pages
The infamous pocha “jam sessions”
part |78 pages
Preparing for a public performance