Barbara Ann Teer And The National Black Theatre

Author : Lundeana Marie Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317776963

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Barbara Ann Teer and the National Black Theatre by Lundeana Marie Thomas Pdf

While chronicling the development of Teer's National Black Theatre of Harlem, this study explores the National Black Theatre's quest to develop a new black theory of acting. Teer's theory of performance was realized in a theater that combined elements of Pentacostal worship and African ritual, melding spontaneity from the performers, percussive music, singing, dancing, emotional expression from both actors and audience, and spectacle. The National Black Theatre's major achievement is the creation of an original art form that helps African Americans identify with their roots and invites spontaneous audience interaction. The study offers the National Black Theatre as a model African American community theater with valuable lessons for other theaters. The innovative methods of the National Black Theatre provide a model for enlightening and sensitizing audiences to cultural diversity. A pioneering institution, the National Black Theatre has proven itself over its 25 year history to be a cultural treasure and the quintessential theater in Harlem. Also includes maps.(Bibliography, and index; foreword by Dr. Winona Fletcher, Professor Emeritus of Theater and Drama and Afro-American Studies; Founder of the National Black Theatre)

Author : La Donna Forsgren
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810136953

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In Search of Our Warrior Mothers by La Donna Forsgren Pdf

The Black Arts Movement (1965–76) consisted of artists across the United States deeply concerned with the relationship between politics and the black aesthetic. In Search of Our Warrior Mothers examines the ways in which black women playwrights in the movement advanced feminist and womanist perspectives from within black nationalist discourses. La Donna L. Forsgren recuperates the careers, artistic theories, and dramatic contributions of four leading playwrights: Martie Evans-Charles, J.e. Franklin, Sonia Sanchez, and Barbara Ann Teer. Using original interviews, production recordings, playbills, and unpublished manuscripts, she investigates how these women, despite operating within a context that equated the collective well-being of black people with black male agency, created works that validated black women's aspirations for autonomy and explored women's roles in the struggle for black liberation. In Search of Our Warrior Mothers demonstrates the powerful contributions of women to the creation, interpretation, and dissemination of black aesthetic theory, thus opening an interdisciplinary conversation at the intersections of theater, performance, feminist, and African American studies and identifying and critiquing the gaps and silences within these fields.

Author : Annemarie Bean
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134673926

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A Sourcebook on African-American Performance by Annemarie Bean Pdf

A Sourcebook on African-American Performance is the first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the New Black Renaissance of the 1990s. As with all titles in the Worlds of Performance series, the Sourcebook consists of classic texts as well as newly commissioned pieces by notable scholars, writers and performers. It includes the plays 'Sally's Rape' by Robbie McCauley and 'The American Play' by Suzan-Lori Parks, and comes complete with a substantial, historical introduction by Annemarie Bean. Articles, essays, manifestos and interviews included cover topics such as: * theatre on the professional, revolutionary and college stages * concert dance * community activism * step shows * performance art. Contributors include Annemarie Bean, Ed Bullins, Barbara Lewis, John O'Neal, Glenda Dickersun, James V. Hatch, Warren Budine Jr. and Eugene Nesmith.

Author : Paul Carter Harrison,Victor Leo Walker Ii,Gus Edwards
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781566399449

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Black Theatre by Paul Carter Harrison,Victor Leo Walker Ii,Gus Edwards Pdf

Generating a new understanding of the past—as well as a vision for the future—this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today.Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual performance that is intrinsic to Black theatre renews the community; in Paul Carter Harrison's words, it "reveals the Form of Things Unknown" in a way that "binds, cleanses, and heals."

Author : Errol Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781617801761

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The Theatre of Black Americans by Errol Hill Pdf

THE THEATRE OF BLACK AMERICANS

Author : Kathy A. Perkins,Sandra L. Richards,Renée Alexander Craft,Thomas F. DeFrantz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781351751438

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The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance by Kathy A. Perkins,Sandra L. Richards,Renée Alexander Craft,Thomas F. DeFrantz Pdf

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. Alongside chapters from scholars are contributions from theatre makers, including producers, theatre managers, choreographers, directors, designers, and critics. This ambitious Companion includes: A "Timeline of African American theatre and performance." Part I "Seeing ourselves onstage" explores the important experience of Black theatrical self-representation. Analyses of diverse topics including historical dramas, Broadway musicals, and experimental theatre allow readers to discover expansive articulations of Blackness. Part II "Institution building" highlights institutions that have nurtured Black people both on stage and behind the scenes. Topics include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), festivals, and black actor training. Part III "Theatre and social change" surveys key moments when Black people harnessed the power of theatre to affirm community realities and posit new representations for themselves and the nation as a whole. Topics include Du Bois and African Muslims, women of the Black Arts Movement, Afro-Latinx theatre, youth theatre, and operatic sustenance for an Afro future. Part IV "Expanding the traditional stage" examines Black performance traditions that privilege Black worldviews, sense-making, rituals, and innovation in everyday life. This section explores performances that prefer the space of the kitchen, classroom, club, or field. This book engages a wide audience of scholars, students, and theatre practitioners with its unprecedented breadth. More than anything, these invaluable insights not only offer a window onto the processes of producing work, but also the labour and economic issues that have shaped and enabled African American theatre. Chapter 20 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Paul Carter Harrison,Victor Leo Walker,Gus Edwards,Walker II Victor Leo
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1439901155

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Black Theatre by Paul Carter Harrison,Victor Leo Walker,Gus Edwards,Walker II Victor Leo Pdf

An insider's view of Black theatres of the world and how they reflect their culture, concerns, and history.

Author : Mance Williams
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1985-08-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007492924

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Black Theatre In 1960's-70's by Mance Williams Pdf

Providing a comprehensive overview of the most daring and aggressive period in the history of Afro-American theatre, this study goes beyond an analysis of the major new playwrights and the plays that shaped the movement. The philosophies and dramatic styles of the most important theatre companies and the contributions of the individual artists who spearheaded their creation are also discussed. Finally the role of the Black producer, who often functioned as director and writer as well, is considered.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Theaters
ISBN : UOM:39015067518103

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Theatre Profiles by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1976-05
Category : New Age movement
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008454964

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New Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Errol Hill
Publisher : Applause Theatre & Cinema
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005350116

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The Theater of Black Americans by Errol Hill Pdf

From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, The Theatre of Black Americans offers a penetrating look at a black art form that has exploded into an American cultural institution. Among the essays: James Hatch - Some African Influences on the Afro-American Theatre; Shelby Steele - Notes on Ritual in the New Black Theatre; Sister M. Francesca Thompson OSF - The Lafayette Players; Ronald Ross - The Role of Blacks in the Federal Theatre.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036383169

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News from Guyana by Anonim Pdf

Author : Errol Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : African American theater
ISBN : UOM:39015005048387

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The Theatre of Black Americans: The presenters. The participators by Errol Hill Pdf

Author : Errol Hill
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : MINN:31951001424056I

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The Theater of Black Americans: The presenters. The participators by Errol Hill Pdf

Critical essays on the history, impact and future of the black theater movement in the United States. Volume one traces its historical origins from its African and American roots and studies important black plays and individual playwrights from the Harlem Renaissance down to Ed Bullins. Volume two examines black theater companies and raises some of the moral and aesthetic questions they pose for audiences and critics, black and white. The contributors include Darwin T. Turner, Lindsay Patterson and Stanley Kauffman.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UOM:39015057469382

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American Theatre by Anonim Pdf