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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
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 …
Fragmented Liveness / Mediated Moments, Kristen Lovell
Fragmented Liveness / Mediated Moments, Kristen Lovell
Kristen R Lovell
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The Activist Classroom: Performance And Pedagogy, Kim Solga
The Activist Classroom: Performance And Pedagogy, Kim Solga
Kim Solga
As teachers of theatre history, theory, and performance theory and practice we engage in crucial public work: the training of future audiences. Our labour, every day, is social activism, whether we call it that or not. The latest issue of Canadian Theatre Review celebrates this work, and explores its challenges from multiple perspectives. It includes contributions from performers, public arts workers, students, and scholars who work in theatre for education, performance studies, English literature, and more. The issue also features a forum on pedagogical innovation in the theatre studies classroom, as well as five short scripts developed by students at …
Building Utopia: Performance And The Fantasy Of Urban Renewal In Contemporary Toronto, Laura Levin, Kim Solga
Building Utopia: Performance And The Fantasy Of Urban Renewal In Contemporary Toronto, Laura Levin, Kim Solga
Kim Solga
Toronto markets itself as a city in renewal, a “creative city” of the future full of arts and culture. Alongside the official pitch, a number of street-level underground initiatives reimagine Toronto's utopic future in a different way by means of site-specific performances. But do these grassroots performance schemes necessarily create a more inclusive, more equitable city?
Performance And The City, Kim Solga, D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr
Performance And The City, Kim Solga, D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr
Kim Solga
Urban Studies has long understood the city as a 'text'. What would it mean now to rethink that metaphor? In answer to that question, Performance and the City, now in paperback and with a new preface by Susan Bennett, imagines civic spaces built on, and through, theatre and performance of all kinds. Featuring essays by Marla Carlson, Jen Harvie, D.J. Hopkins and Shelley Orr, Ric Knowles, Laura Levin, Michael McKinnie, Rebecca Rugg, Rebecca Schneider, Marlis Schweitzer, Kim Solga, Joanne Tompkins, and Klaus van den Berg, as well as an Afterword by Barbara Hodgdon, Performance and the City explores an interdisciplinary …
Dress Suits To Hire And The Landscape Of Queer Urbanity, Kim Solga
Dress Suits To Hire And The Landscape Of Queer Urbanity, Kim Solga
Kim Solga
As the story goes, the only good queer is an urban queer. But does the LGBTQ population of America really want to cede all that wide open space to straight-laced (and often violent) ideologies? The work of Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver has consistently challenged the perceived boundaries of lesbian experience; in this paper, I theorize the queer geography of their OBIE-winning hit, Dress Suits to Hire, via its 2005 anniversary revival in Austin, Texas.