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Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange M. Sell

Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange By M. Sell

Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange by M. Sell


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Summary

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde.

Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange Summary

Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical by M. Sell

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde.

About M. Sell

LAURA EDMONDSON Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, USA ALAN FILEWOD Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Canada PATRICIA GABORIK Independent Scholar, Italy JEAN GRAHAM-JONES Professor of Theatre, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA JAMES HARDING Professor of English, University of Mary Washington, USA ANDREA HARRIS Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA KIMBERLY JANNARONE Associate Professor of Theater Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA ESTHER KIM LEE Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and the Asian American Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA SIYUAN LIU Assistant Professor of Theatre, University of British Columbia, Canada. CINDY ROSENTHAL Associate Professor of Drama and Dance, Hofstra University, USA GRAHAM WHITE Reader in Drama and Creative Practice, Roehampton University, UK PRAISE ZENENGA Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Program, University of Arizona at Tucson, USA

Table of Contents

Introduction; M.Sell PART I: INTERSECTIONS Introduction; J.Harding From Italy and Russia to France and the U.S.: 'Fascist' Futurism and Balanchine's 'American' Ballet; P.Gaborik & A.Harris Confessions of a Failed Theatre Activist: Intercultural Encounters in Uganda and Rwanda; L.Edmondson The Living Theatre's Arrested Development in Brazil: An Intersection of Activist Performances; C.Rosenthal PART II: TRANSLATIONS Introduction; J.Graham-Jones 'Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought': Anarchism and the Introduction of Modern Western Theatre to China; S.Liu Translation, Typography, and the Avant-Garde's Impossible Text; S.Bay-Cheng Maoist Performatives: Milton Acorn and the Canadian Liberation Movement; A.Filewod PART III: DIVERGENCES Introduction; A.Filewod Avant-Garde Becomes Nationalism: Immortalizing Nam June Paik in South Korea; E.Kim Lee The Avant-Garde and the Arab World; M.Sell The Avant-Garde of Necessity: The Protest Theatre Movement in Zimbabwe; P.Zenenga Punk Attitude: The Influence of the Avant-Garde and the Case of Ian Stuart Donaldson; G.White Afterword The Avant-Garde and Vector Studies: A Roundtable Index

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NLS9781349317073
9781349317073
1349317071
Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange: Vectors of the Radical by M. Sell
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2011-01-01
228
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