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Speaking And Sensing The Self In Authentic Movement: The Search For Authenticity In A 21st Century White Urban Middle-Class Community, Seran Schug Aug 2013

Speaking And Sensing The Self In Authentic Movement: The Search For Authenticity In A 21st Century White Urban Middle-Class Community, Seran Schug

Seran E Schug Ph.D.

Speaking and Sensing the Self in Authentic Movement The Search for Authenticity in a 21st Century White Urban Middle-Class Community Seran Endrigian Schug Asif Agha and Rebecca Huss-Ashmore This ethnography is about Authentic Movement, a ritual form of dance and self-narrative in which a participant performs free association through trancelike movement in the presence of a “compassionate” witness as a means toward the discovery of an authentic self. Rooted in anti-modernist social movements in late 19th century urban middle- and upper-class communities in the United States, Authentic Movement brings to light a central paradox of modern life—though it is through …


Review, The Spirits And The Law: Vodou And Power In Haiti, Gina Ulysse Jun 2013

Review, The Spirits And The Law: Vodou And Power In Haiti, Gina Ulysse

Gina Athena Ulysse

Book review, Kate Ramsey, The Spirits and The Law: Vodou and Power in Haiti (UChicago 2011).


Process Drama: Bridging The Arts And The Sciences, Chamkaur Gill Feb 2013

Process Drama: Bridging The Arts And The Sciences, Chamkaur Gill

Chamkaur Gill

Process drama involves participants using improvisation techniques in role-play to enact real-life scenarios. It focuses on the process rather than the final product and therefore allows students and teachers to simulate actual situations experientially and, in the process, develop problem-solving skills. It has been used as learning and teaching strategy in various disciplines in the arts and the sciences. Students enjoy situated learning through contextualisation of concepts within their fields, acting out scenes that deal with issues pertaining to their fields of study. Process drama is, in essence, learning by doing while at the same time creating a real-life environment …


’Tis Pity She’S A Realist: A Conversational Case Study In Realism And Early Modern Theater Today, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker, Cary Mazer Dec 2012

’Tis Pity She’S A Realist: A Conversational Case Study In Realism And Early Modern Theater Today, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker, Cary Mazer

Kim Solga

No abstract provided.


“Peer Reviewed: Elizabeth Inchbald’S Shakespeare Criticism", Karen Gevirtz Dec 2012

“Peer Reviewed: Elizabeth Inchbald’S Shakespeare Criticism", Karen Gevirtz

Karen Bloom Gevirtz

No abstract provided.


Early Modern Drama And Realist Performance On The Contemporary Stage, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker Dec 2012

Early Modern Drama And Realist Performance On The Contemporary Stage, Kim Solga, Roberta Barker

Kim Solga

No abstract provided.


Beautiful Evil: (Re)Covering The Subversive Rhetorics Of Adah Isaacs Menken, Jeanne Bohannon Dec 2012

Beautiful Evil: (Re)Covering The Subversive Rhetorics Of Adah Isaacs Menken, Jeanne Bohannon

Jeanne Law Bohannon

No abstract provided.


Performing Survival In The Global City: Theatre Isôko’S The Monument”, Kim Solga, Jennifer Capraru Dec 2012

Performing Survival In The Global City: Theatre Isôko’S The Monument”, Kim Solga, Jennifer Capraru

Kim Solga

No abstract provided.


Neoliberal Pleasure, Global Responsibility, And The South Sudan Cymbeline, Kim Solga Dec 2012

Neoliberal Pleasure, Global Responsibility, And The South Sudan Cymbeline, Kim Solga

Kim Solga

Tackling vital issues of politics, identity and experience in performance, this book asks what Shakespeare's plays mean when extended beyond the English language. From April to June 2012 the Globe to Globe Festival offered the unprecedented opportunity to see all of Shakespeare's plays performed in many different world languages. Thirty-eight productions from around the globe were presented in six weeks as part of the World Shakespeare Festival, which formed a cornerstone of the Cultural Olympics. This book provides the only complete critical record of that event, drawing together an internationally renowned group of scholars of Shakespeare and world theatre with …