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Performing Communities

Author : Robert H. Leonard
Publisher : New Village Press
ISBN 13 : 0976605449
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Performing Communities written by Robert H. Leonard and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Communities is an inquiry into ensemble theater of inner-city Los Angeles, small-town northern California, African-American South, multicultural southern Texas, low-income central Appalachia, economically struggling South Bronx New York and cross-continental Native America. This compendium of critical writing about the role these theaters play in building community shows how these artist groups are not only affected by but forged by working in and with their communities over time. Grassroot ensemble theater is discovered to be neither alternative nor marginalized, but vanguard, a natural evolution of the movement that propelled regional theater "away from the commercial restraints of New York and toward a theater expressive of the rich diversity of American culture." Robert H. Leonard is Professor of Theatre Arts at Virginia Tech and former artistic director of the Road Company, an acclaimed ensemble theater that produced two dozen original plays reflecting the issues of Central Appalachia. Ann Kilkelly is Professor of Theater Arts and Women's Studies at Virginia Tech and a nationally recognized scholar and performer who created the Diversity Training Laboratory that uses performance techniques to examine diversity issues. Linda Frye Burnham is co-director of Art in the Public Interest and the Community Arts Network. She founded High Performance magazine and is editor, with Steven Durland, of The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena. Jan Cohen-Cruz is Director of Theatre Studies in the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is author of Local Acts: Community-based Performance In The United States (Rutgers University Press 2005).

Community of Peace

Author : Christopher Courtheyn
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 082298878X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Community of Peace written by Christopher Courtheyn and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieving peace is often thought about in terms of military operations or state negotiations. Yet it also happens at the grassroots level, where communities envision and create peace on their own. The San José de Apartadó Peace Community of small-scale farmers has not waited for a top-down peace treaty. Instead, they have actively resisted forced displacement and co-optation by guerrillas, army soldiers, and paramilitaries for two decades in Colombia’s war-torn Urabá region. Based on ethnographic action research over a twelve-year period, Christopher Courtheyn illuminates the community’s understandings of peace and territorial practices against ongoing assassinations and displacement. San José’s peace through autonomy reflects an alternative to traditional modes of politics practiced through electoral representation and armed struggle. Courtheyn explores the meaning of peace and territory, while also interrogating the role of race in Colombia’s war and the relationship between memory and peace. Amid the widespread violence of today’s global crisis, Community of Peace illustrates San José’s rupture from the logics of colonialism and capitalism through the construction of political solidarity and communal peace.

Performing Cultural Tourism

Author : Susan Carson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351703900
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Performing Cultural Tourism written by Susan Carson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While experiential staging is well documented in tourism studies, not enough has been written about the diverse types of experiences and expectations that visitors bring to the tourist space and how communities respond to, or indeed challenge, these expectations. This book brings together new ideas about cultural experiences and how communities, creative producers, and visitors can productively engage with competing interests and notions of experience and authenticity in the tourist environment. Part I considers the experiences of communities in meeting the needs of cultural tourists in an international context. Part II analyses the relationships between individualcultural tourists, the community, and digital technology. Finally, Part III responds to new methodologies in relation to interactions between government and regional policy and community development. Focusing on the way in which communities and visitors ‘perform’ new forms of cultural tourism, Performing Cultural Tourism is aimed at undergraduate students, researchers, academics, and a diverse range of professionals at both private and government levels that are seeking to develop policies and business plans that recognize and respond to new interests in contemporary tourism.

Local Acts

Author : Jan Cohen-Cruz
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813537584
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Local Acts written by Jan Cohen-Cruz and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eclectic mix of art, theatre, dance, politics, experimentation, and ritual, community-based performance has become an increasingly popular art movement in the United States. Forged by the collaborative efforts of professional artists and local residents, this unique field brings performance together with a range of political, cultural, and social projects, such as community-organizing, cultural self-representation, and education. Local Acts presents a long-overdue survey of community-based performance from its early roots, through its flourishing during the politically-turbulent 1960s, to present-day popular culture. Drawing on nine case studies, including groups such as the African American Junebug Productions, the Appalachian Roadside Theater, and the Puerto Rican Teatro Pregones, Jan Cohen-Cruz provides detailed descriptions of performances and processes, first-person stories, and analysis. She shows how the ritual side of these endeavors reinforces a sense of community identification while the aesthetic side enables local residents to transgress cultural norms, to question group habits, and to incorporate a level of craft that makes the work accessible to individuals beyond any one community. The book concludes by exploring how community-based performance transcends even national boundaries, connecting the local United States with international theater and cultural movements.

Performing Democracy

Author : Susan C. Haedicke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067602
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Performing Democracy written by Susan C. Haedicke and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International perspectives on a form of activist, participatory theater with marginalized groups in cities around the world

Improving Health in the Community

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309055342
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Improving Health in the Community written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-05-21 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do communities protect and improve the health of their populations? Health care is part of the answer but so are environmental protections, social and educational services, adequate nutrition, and a host of other activities. With concern over funding constraints, making sure such activities are efficient and effective is becoming a high priority. Improving Health in the Community explains how population-based performance monitoring programs can help communities point their efforts in the right direction. Within a broad definition of community health, the committee addresses factors surrounding the implementation of performance monitoring and explores the "why" and "how to" of establishing mechanisms to monitor the performance of those who can influence community health. The book offers a policy framework, applies a multidimensional model of the determinants of health, and provides sets of prototype performance indicators for specific health issues. Improving Health in the Community presents an attainable vision of a process that can achieve community-wide health benefits.

Shakespeare and Community Performance

Author : Katherine Steele Brokaw
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031332679
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Community Performance written by Katherine Steele Brokaw and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-09 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism. Instead of focusing on large professional companies, it analyzes performances put on by community theatres and grassroots companies, and in applied drama projects. It looks at Shakespearean productions created by marginalized populations in Greater London, Harlem, and Los Angeles, a Hamlet staged in the remote Faroe Islands, and eco-theatre made in California’s Yosemite National Park. The book investigates why different communities perform Shakespeare, and what challenges, opportunities, and triumphs accompany the processes of theatrical production for both the artists and the communities in which they are embedded.

Community Performance: An Introduction

Author : Petra Kuppers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134164041
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Community Performance: An Introduction written by Petra Kuppers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-03-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, dance and theatre. It is both a classroom-friendly textbook and a handbook for the practitioner, perfectly answering the needs of a field where teaching is orientated around practice. Offering a toolkit for students interested in running community arts groups, this book includes: international case-studies and first person stories by practitioners and participants sample exercises, both practical and reflective study questions excerpts of illustrative material from theorists and practitioners. This book can be used as a standalone text or together with its companion volume, The Community Performance Reader, to provide an excellent introduction to the field of community arts practice. Petra Kuppers has drawn on her vast personal experience and a wealth of inspiring case studies to create a book that will engage and help to develop the reflective community arts practitioner.

Local Acts

Author : Jan Cohen-Cruz
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813535500
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Local Acts written by Jan Cohen-Cruz and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author surveys community-based performance in the US from its roots to present-day popular culture. She describes performances and processes, and shows how ritualism reinforces community identification while aestheticism enables locals to transgress cultural norms.

Disability Culture and Community Performance

Author : P. Kuppers
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230316581
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Disability Culture and Community Performance written by P. Kuppers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performances in hospices and on beaches; cross-cultural myth making in Wales, New Zealand and the US; communal poetry among mental health system survivors: this book, now in paperback, presents a senior practitioner/critic's exploration of arts-based research processes sustained over more than a decade - a subtle engagement with disability culture.

Archaeology of Performance

Author : Takeshi Inomata
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 0759114404
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Performance written by Takeshi Inomata and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performances in the premodern communities shaped identities, created meanings, generated and maintained political control. But unlike other social scientists, archaeologists have not worked much with these concepts. Archaeology of Performance shows how the notions of theatricality and spectacle are as important economics and politics in understanding how ancient communities work. Without sacrificing conceptual rigor, the contributors draw on the wide-ranging literature on performance. Without sacrificing material evidence, they try to see how performance creates meaning and ideology. Drawing on evidence from societies large and small, Archaeology of Performance offers an important new ways of understanding ancient theaters of power.

The Community Performance Reader

Author : Petra Kuppers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000155366
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Community Performance Reader written by Petra Kuppers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Complete Web Monitoring

Author : Alistair Croll
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 0596551355
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Complete Web Monitoring written by Alistair Croll and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you really understand your online presence? Are you confident that visitors can use your website? Do you know their motivations? How do online communities perceive your company? To innovate and adapt your business quickly, you must know the answers to these questions. Complete Web Monitoring demonstrates how to measure every aspect of your web presence -- including analytics, backend performance, usability, communities, customer feedback, and competitive analysis -- whether you're running an e-commerce site, a community, a media property, or a Software-as-a-Service company. This book's concrete examples, clear explanations, and practical recommendations make it essential for anyone who runs a website. With this book you will: Discover how visitors use and interact with your site through web analytics, segmentation, conversions, and user interaction analysis Find out your market's motivations with voice-of-the-customer research Measure the health and availability of your website with synthetic testing and real-user monitoring Track communities related to your online presence, including social networks, forums, blogs, microblogs, wikis, and social news aggregators Understand how to assemble this data into clear reports tailored to your organization and audience You can't fix what you don't measure. Complete Web Monitoring shows you how to transform missed opportunities, frustrated users, and spiraling costs into online success. "This is a very comprehensive view of just about everything one needs to know about how websites work and what one needs to know about them. I'd like to make this book required reading for every employee at Gomez."-- Imad Mouline, CTO of Gomez

Teaching Critical Performance Theory

Author : Jeanmarie Higgins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000045226
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Critical Performance Theory written by Jeanmarie Higgins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teaching Critical Performance Theory offers teaching strategies for professors and artist-scholars across performance, design and technology, and theatre studies disciplines. The book’s seventeen chapters collectively ask: What use is theory to an emerging theatre artist or scholar? Which theories should be taught, and to whom? How can theory pedagogies shape and respond to the evolving needs of the academy, the field, and the community? This broad field of enquiry is divided into four sections covering course design, classroom teaching, the studio space, and applied theatre contexts. Through a range of intriguing case studies that encourage thoughtful theatre practice, this book explores themes surrounding situated learning, dramaturgy and technology, disability and inclusivity, feminist approaches, race and performance, ethics, and critical theory in theatre history. Written as an invaluable resource for professionals and postgraduates engaged in performance theory, this collection of informative essays will also provide critical reading for those interested in drama and theatre studies more broadly.

Performing Democracy

Author : Susan C. Haedicke
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472067602
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (676 download)

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Community Performance

Author : Petra Kuppers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429590032
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Community Performance written by Petra Kuppers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, dance, and theatre, offering reflection on the ethical issues inherent to the field. It is both a classroom-friendly textbook and a handbook for the practitioner, perfectly answering the needs of a field where teaching is orientated around practice. Offering a toolkit for students interested in running community arts groups or community performance events, this book includes: international case studies and first-person stories by practitioners and participants sample exercises, both practical and reflective study questions excerpts of illustrative material from theorists and practitioners This second edition has been completely revised with over 25% new content to bring the book up to date with developments in both society and performance, including the rise of social media, updates in the contexts of social justice, new standards and norms in social practice, and the changing faces of funding, evaluation, and professional development. The book can be used as a standalone text or together with its companion volume, Community Performance: A Reader, to provide an excellent introduction to the field of community arts practice.

Communities, Performance and Practice

Author : Kerrie Schaefer
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030957568
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Communities, Performance and Practice written by Kerrie Schaefer and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how a predominantly negative view of community has presented a challenge to critical analysis of community performance practice. The concept of community as a form of class-based solidarity has been hollowed out by postmodernism’s questioning of grand narratives and poststructuralism’s celebration of difference. Alongside the critique of a notion of community has been a critical re-signification of community, following the thinking of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy who conceives of community not as common being but as being-in-common. The concept of community as being-in-common generates questions that have been taken up by feminist geographers, J.K. Gibson-Graham, in theorising a post-capitalist approach to community-based development. These questions and approaches guide the analyses in researched case studies of community performance practice. The book revises theoretical debates that have defined the field of community theatre and performance. It asks how the critical re-signification of community aligns with these debates and, at the same time, opens new modes of critical analysis of community theatre and performance practice.