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On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man (Seagull Books - Enactments)
Rachel Bowditch
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Description for On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man (Seagull Books - Enactments)
Hardcover. Since 1986, the Burning Man Festival has evolved from founder Larry Harvey's personal healing ritual into a cultural movement where ceremony, religion, visual art, and performance converge on an epic scale. This work explores the spectrum of performance and ritual practices within Black Rock City from the everyday to wild spectacle. Series: SB - Enactments. Num Pages: 364 pages, 70 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; AB; ASZP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 163 x 38. Weight in Grams: 850.
During the week before Labor Day every year, nearly fifty thousand people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City. At the center of Black Rock City is a forty-foot wooden effigy of a man, an icon around which art, performance, and community revolve. Since 1986, the Burning Man Festival has evolved from founder Larry Harvey's personal healing ritual into a cultural movement where ceremony, religion, visual art, and performance converge on an epic scale. In "On the Edge of Utopia", Rachel Bowditch - performer, theater director, scholar, and Burning Man participant - explores the spectrum of ... Read more
During the week before Labor Day every year, nearly fifty thousand people gather in Nevada's Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City. At the center of Black Rock City is a forty-foot wooden effigy of a man, an icon around which art, performance, and community revolve. Since 1986, the Burning Man Festival has evolved from founder Larry Harvey's personal healing ritual into a cultural movement where ceremony, religion, visual art, and performance converge on an epic scale. In "On the Edge of Utopia", Rachel Bowditch - performer, theater director, scholar, and Burning Man participant - explores the spectrum of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Seagull Books
Condition
New
Series
SB - Enactments
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906497255
SKU
V9781906497255
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Ref
99-12
About Rachel Bowditch
Rachel Bowditch is assistant professor at Arizona State University in the School of Theatre and Film. She is artistic associate of Schechner's East Coast Artist Exchange and associate of RoseLee Goldberg's Performa.
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