Utopia In Performance

Download Utopia In Performance full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Utopia In Performance ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Utopia in Performance

Author : Jill Dolan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472025570
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Utopia in Performance by : Jill Dolan

Download or read book Utopia in Performance written by Jill Dolan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Performance, Space, Utopia

Author : S. Jestrovic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137291672
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Performance, Space, Utopia by : S. Jestrovic

Download or read book Performance, Space, Utopia written by S. Jestrovic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Utopia in Performance

Author : Jill Dolan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472069071
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (69 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Utopia in Performance by : Jill Dolan

Download or read book Utopia in Performance written by Jill Dolan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2005-11-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate book that underscores the critical contribution that the theater arts can make to imagining a more just world

Performing Utopia

Author : Rachel Bowditch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857423863
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (238 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Performing Utopia by : Rachel Bowditch

Download or read book Performing Utopia written by Rachel Bowditch and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Illusive Utopia

Author : Suk-Young Kim
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472117084
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Illusive Utopia by : Suk-Young Kim

Download or read book Illusive Utopia written by Suk-Young Kim and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare glimpse into North Korean propaganda—in parades, posters, murals, theater, and films

Cruising Utopia

Author : José Esteban Muñoz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814757286
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cruising Utopia by : José Esteban Muñoz

Download or read book Cruising Utopia written by José Esteban Muñoz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-11-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printbegrænsninger: Der kan printes 10 sider ad gangen og max. 40 sider pr. session

Cruising Utopia

Author : José Esteban Muñoz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814796001
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Cruising Utopia by : José Esteban Muñoz

Download or read book Cruising Utopia written by José Esteban Muñoz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its future. He considers the work of seminal artists and writers such as Andy Warhol, LeRoi Jones, Frank O’Hara, Ray Johnson, Fred Herko, Samuel Delany, and Elizabeth Bishop, alongside contemporary performance and visual artists like Dynasty Handbag, My Barbarian, Luke Dowd, Tony Just, and Kevin McCarty in order to decipher the anticipatory illumination of art and its uncanny ability to open windows to the future. In a startling repudiation of what the LGBT movement has held dear, Muñoz contends that queerness is instead a futurity bound phenomenon, a "not yet here" that critically engages pragmatic presentism. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, Cruising Utopia argues that the here and now are not enough and issues an urgent call for the revivification of the queer political imagination.

Utopia

Author : Thomas More
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8027303583
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (273 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Utopia by : Thomas More

Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

On the Edge of Utopia

Author : Rachel Bowditch
Publisher : Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781906497255
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (972 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis On the Edge of Utopia by : Rachel Bowditch

Download or read book On the Edge of Utopia written by Rachel Bowditch and published by Seagull Books Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing arts.

Strains of Utopia

Author : Caryl Flinn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400820650
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Strains of Utopia by : Caryl Flinn

Download or read book Strains of Utopia written by Caryl Flinn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1992-06-15 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dmitri Tiomkin thanked Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, and Richard Wagner upon accepting the Academy Award for his score of The High and the Mighty in 1954, he was honoring a romantic style that had characterized Hollywood's golden age of film composition from the mid-1930s to the 1950s. Exploring elements of romanticism in film scores of composers ranging from Erich Korngold to Bernard Herrmann, Caryl Flinn argues that films tended to link music to the sense of an idealized, lost past. Just as the score of Gone with the Wind captured the grandeur of the antebellum South, others prompted flashbacks or suggested moments of emotional intensity and sensuality. Maintaining that many films treated this utopian impulse as a female trait, Flinn investigates the ways Hollywood genre films--particularly film noir and melodrama--sustained the connection between music and nostalgia, utopia, and femininity. The author situates Hollywood film scores within a romantic aesthetic ideology, noting compositional and theoretical affinities between the film composers and Wagner, with emphasis on authorship, creativity, and femininity. Pointing to the lasting impact of romanticism on film music, Flinn draws from poststructuralist, Marxist, feminist, and psychoanalytic criticism to offer fresh insights into the broad theme of music as an excessive utopian condition.

Seven Days in Utopia

Author : David L. Cook
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310336198
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Seven Days in Utopia by : David L. Cook

Download or read book Seven Days in Utopia written by David L. Cook and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Golfers and non-golfers alike will be moved by this powerful story of transformation revealing the secrets to success in life beyond success in our game or work. Luke Chisolm is a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. But when his first big shot turns into a very public disaster, he escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas. There, he meets Johnny Crawford, an eccentric rancher with a passion for teaching truth, whose faith forces Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future. Written by author and performance psychologist Dr. David Cook--who has worked with NBA World Champions, National Collegiate Champions, PGA Tour Champions, Olympians, and many Fortune 500 companies--this remarkable and encouraging story reminds us to get our game, and our life, back on course. Now a major motion picture starring Academy Award Winner Robert Duvall and Lucas Black! Also published as Golf's Sacred Journey.

Precarious Forms

Author : Candice Amich
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810141827
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (418 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Precarious Forms by : Candice Amich

Download or read book Precarious Forms written by Candice Amich and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

American Utopia

Author : David Byrne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635576695
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis American Utopia by : David Byrne

Download or read book American Utopia written by David Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Feminist Spectator as Critic

Author : Jill Dolan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472081608
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (816 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Feminist Spectator as Critic by : Jill Dolan

Download or read book The Feminist Spectator as Critic written by Jill Dolan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extends the feminist analysis of representation to the realm of performance

A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias

Author : Angela Jones
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137311975
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias by : Angela Jones

Download or read book A Critical Inquiry into Queer Utopias written by Angela Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is a symposium on queer space and queer utopias. Through the presentation of empirical work by contemporary queer theorists this book aims to create a critical dialogue about the emergence of queer spaces and the ways in which they aim to further queer futurity.

Meeting the Moment

Author : Jan Cohen-Cruz
Publisher : New Village Press
ISBN 13 : 1613321546
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (133 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Meeting the Moment by : Jan Cohen-Cruz

Download or read book Meeting the Moment written by Jan Cohen-Cruz and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Composes the recollections of socially engaged theater makers and performers to discuss the challenges and adaptations of the field. Meeting the Moment explores experiences of a diverse range of progressive theater and performance makers in the U.S., in their own words, since 1965. These performers, often unknown beyond their immediate audience, articulate diverse influences. Curated stories from over 75 interviews and informal exchanges offers insight into the field and point out limitations due to discrimination and unequal opportunity for performance artists over the past 55 years. They also reflect on how artists are educated and supported, what content is deemed valuable and how it is brought to bear, as well as which audiences are welcome and whether cross-community exchange is encouraged. The book's voices from the field point to more diverse and inclusive practices and give hope for the future of the art"--

The Performance of Power

Author : Sue-Ellen Case
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587290340
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Performance of Power by : Sue-Ellen Case

Download or read book The Performance of Power written by Sue-Ellen Case and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1991-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently in the field of theatre studies there has been an increasing amount of debate and dissonance regarding the borders of its territory, its methodologies, subject matter, and scholarly perspectives. The nature of this debate could be termed "political" and, in fact, concerns "the performance of power"—the struggle over power relations embedded in texts, methodologies, and the academy itself. This striking new collection of nineteen divergent essays represents this performance of power and the way in which the recent convergence of new critical theories with historical studies has politicized the study of the theatre. Neither play text, performance, nor scholarship and teaching can safely reside any longer in the "free," politically neutral, self-signifying realm of the aesthetic. Politicizing theatrical discourse means that both the hermeneutics and the histories of theatre reveal the role of ideology and power dynamics. New strategies and concepts—and a vital new phase of awareness—appear in these illuminating essays. A variety of historical periods, from the Renaissance through the Victorian and up to the most contemporary work of the Wooster group, illustrate the ways in which contemporary strategies do not require contemporary texts and performances but can combine with historical methods and subjects to produce new theatrical discourse.