Introduction

THE PERFORMANCES IN THIS SECTION are grounded in traditional forms passed down over generations, often providing a cultural formulation of the values and behavior of people linked by a common past, present and aspiration for the future. Typically combining entertainment with education, such performances address themselves to whole communities. Already conceptualizing their audience as a united collective, a valuable pre-condition for social change, these performances take place in public by-ways where people tend to congregate. As radical street performance, they have been contemporized by filling their collectively meaningful form with current issues of group importance.