Performing Utopia

Author : Rachel Bowditch,Pegge Vissicaro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Dystopias
ISBN : 085742386X

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Performing Utopia by Rachel Bowditch,Pegge Vissicaro Pdf

In her landmark study Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, Jill Dolan departed from historical writings on utopia, which suggest that social reorganization and the redistribution of wealth are utopian efforts, to argue instead that utopia occurs in fragmentary "utopian moments," often found embedded within performance. While Dolan focused on the utopian performative within a theatrical context, this volume, edited by Rachel Bowditch and Pegge Vissicaro, expands her theories to encompass performance in public life--from diasporic hip-hop battles, Chilean military parades, commemorative processions, Blackfoot powwows, and post-Katrina Mardi Gras to the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, Festas Juninas in Brazil, the Renaissance Fairs in Arizona, and neoburlesque competitions. How do these performances rehearse and enact visions of a utopic world? What can the lens of utopia and dystopia illuminate about the potential of performing bodies to transform communities, identities, values, and beliefs across time? Performing Utopia not only answers these questions, but offers a diverse collection of case studies focusing on utopias, dystopias, and heterotopias enacted through the performing body.

Author : Jill Dolan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780472025572

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Utopia in Performance by Jill Dolan Pdf

"Jill Dolan is the theatre's most astute critic, and this new book is perhaps her most important. Utopia in Performance argues with eloquence and insight how theatre makes a difference, and in the process demonstrates that scholarship matters, too. It is a book that readers will cherish and hold close as a personal favorite, and that scholars will cite for years to come." ---David Román, University of Southern California What is it about performance that draws people to sit and listen attentively in a theater, hoping to be moved and provoked, challenged and comforted? In Utopia in Performance, Jill Dolan traces the sense of visceral, emotional, and social connection that we experience at such times, connections that allow us to feel for a moment not what a better world might look like, but what it might feel like, and how that hopeful utopic sentiment might become motivation for social change. She traces these "utopian performatives" in a range of performances, including the solo performances of feminist artists Holly Hughes, Deb Margolin, and Peggy Shaw; multicharacter solo performances by Lily Tomlin, Danny Hoch, and Anna Deavere Smith; the slam poetry event Def Poetry Jam; The Laramie Project; Blanket, a performance by postmodern choreographer Ann Carlson; Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman; and Deborah Warner's production of Medea starring Fiona Shaw. While the book richly captures moments of "feeling utopia" found within specific performances, it also celebrates the broad potential that performance has to provide a forum for being human together; for feeling love, hope, and commonality in particular and historical (rather than universal and transcendent) ways.

Author : S. Jestrovic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137291677

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Performance, Space, Utopia by S. Jestrovic Pdf

Over 20 years after the war in Yugoslavia, this book looks back at its two most iconic cities and the phenomenon of exile emerging as a consequence of living in them in the 1990s. It uses examples ranging from street interventions to theatre performances to explore the making of urban counter-sites through theatricality and utopian performatives.

Author : Candice Amich
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0810141825

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Precarious Forms by Candice Amich Pdf

Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas explores how performance art and poetry convey utopian desires even in the bleakest of times. Candice Amich argues that utopian longing in the neoliberal Americas paradoxically arises from the material conditions of socioeconomic crisis. Working across national, linguistic, and generic boundaries, Amich identifies new political and affective modes of reception in her examination of resistant art forms. She locates texts in the activist struggles of the Global South, where neoliberal extraction and exploitation most palpably reanimate the colonial and imperial legacies of earlier stages of capitalism. The poets and artists surveyed in Precarious Forms enact gestures of solidarity and mutual care at sites of neoliberal dispossession. In her analysis of poems, body art, and multimedia installations that illuminate the persistence of a radical utopian imaginary in the Americas, Amich engages critical debates in performance studies, Latin American cultural studies, literature, and art history.

Author : José Esteban Muñoz
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814757284

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Cruising Utopia by José Esteban Muñoz Pdf

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Author : Suk-Young Kim
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472117086

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Illusive Utopia by Suk-Young Kim Pdf

A rare glimpse into North Korean propaganda—in parades, posters, murals, theater, and films

Author : Benjamin Beil,Gundolf S. Freyermuth,Hanns Christian Schmidt
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839450505

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Playing Utopia by Benjamin Beil,Gundolf S. Freyermuth,Hanns Christian Schmidt Pdf

Media narratives inform our ideas of the future - and Games are currently making a significant contribution to this medial reservoir. On the one hand, Games demonstrate a particular propensity for fantastic and futuristic scenarios. On the other hand, they often serve as an experimental field for the latest media technologies. However, while dystopias are part of the standard gaming repertoire, Games feature utopias much less frequently. Why? This anthology examines playful utopias from two perspectives. It investigates utopias in digital Games as well as utopias of the digital game; that is, the role of ludic elements in scenarios of the future.

Author : S. Jestrovic
Publisher : Springer
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137291677

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Performance, Space, Utopia by S. Jestrovic Pdf

Over 20 years after the war in Yugoslavia, this book looks back at its two most iconic cities and the phenomenon of exile emerging as a consequence of living in them in the 1990s. It uses examples ranging from street interventions to theatre performances to explore the making of urban counter-sites through theatricality and utopian performatives.

Author : Candice Amich
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810141841

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Precarious Forms by Candice Amich Pdf

Precarious Forms: Performing Utopia in the Neoliberal Americas explores how performance art and poetry convey utopian desires even in the bleakest of times. Candice Amich argues that utopian longing in the neoliberal Americas paradoxically arises from the material conditions of socioeconomic crisis. Working across national, linguistic, and generic boundaries, Amich identifies new political and affective modes of reception in her examination of resistant art forms. She locates texts in the activist struggles of the Global South, where neoliberal extraction and exploitation most palpably reanimate the colonial and imperial legacies of earlier stages of capitalism. The poets and artists surveyed in Precarious Forms enact gestures of solidarity and mutual care at sites of neoliberal dispossession. In her analysis of poems, body art, and multimedia installations that illuminate the persistence of a radical utopian imaginary in the Americas, Amich engages critical debates in performance studies, Latin American cultural studies, literature, and art history.

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:8596547685586

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Utopia by Thomas More Pdf

Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.

Author : André-Jacques Pinochet Elias
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Burning Man (Festival)
ISBN : UCSD:31822025305921

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Performing Utopia and the Apocalyptics of Desire by André-Jacques Pinochet Elias Pdf

Author : Kim Beauchesne,Alessandra Santos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137568731

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Performing Utopias in the Contemporary Americas by Kim Beauchesne,Alessandra Santos Pdf

This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize utopia as a creative and theoretical method based on a commitment to sociopolitical transformation. Chapters are organized around notions of mapping utopias, indigenizing practices, political manifestations, and the construction of social identities.

Author : Rachel Bowditch
Publisher : Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1906497257

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On the Edge of Utopia by Rachel Bowditch Pdf

Performing arts.

Author : David L. Cook
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780310336198

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Seven Days in Utopia by David L. Cook Pdf

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREstarring Robert Duvall and Lucas BlackThis book is about influence and inspiration and a deeper, more profound way of looking at life. The story is based on thousands of athletes who author and performance psychologist Dr. David Cook has counseled, and the great mentors and teachers from whom he has learned. Told through the lives of two characters—an eccentric rancher with a passion for teaching truth, and a young golf professional at the end of his rope looking to escape the pressures of the game—they represent each one of us in our various stages of growth. And through them we are reminded that, in life, we must be willing to coach and be coached.Life is never the same once you’ve been to Utopia.“Read it. Devour it. Keep it as a reference book. You’ll be glad you did. Golf’s Sacred Journey is a remarkable and encouraging story with an entirely different approach on how to succeed in your golf game.”—Zig Ziglar, leading motivational expert and bestselling author“This book is full of wisdom that will enhance your game and I believe it just may change your life.”—David Robinson, NBA MVP, 1992 Olympic Gold Medalist, Two Time World Champion

Author : David Byrne,Maira Kalman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781635576696

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American Utopia by David Byrne,Maira Kalman Pdf

From former Talking Heads frontman and multimedia visionary David Byrne and revered bestselling author, illustrator, and artist Maira Kalman--an inspiring celebration in words and art of the connections between us all. Don't miss the Spike Lee film of the Broadway hit American Utopia--on HBO. A Beat Most Anticipated Graphic Novel of Fall 2020 A joyful collaboration between old friends David Byrne and Maira Kalman, American Utopia offers readers an antidote to cynicism, bursting with pathos, humanism, and hope--featuring his words and lyrics brought to life with more than 150 of her colorful paintings. The text is drawn from David Byrne's American Utopia, which has become a hit Broadway show and is now a film from Spike Lee on HBO. The four-color artwork, by Maira Kalman, which she created for the Broadway show's curtain, is composed of small moments, expressions, gestures, and interactions that together offer a portrait of daily life and coexistence. With their creative talents combined, American Utopia is a salvo for kindness and a call for jubilation, a reminder to sing, dance, and waste not a moment. Beautifully designed and edited by Alex Kalman, American Utopia is a balm for the soul from two of the world's most extraordinary artists.