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Performing Utopia
Rachel Bowditch (Ed.)
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Description for Performing Utopia
Paperback. Editor(s): Bowditch, Rachel. Series: SB - Enactments. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: AN; AS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
228
Condition
New
Series
SB - Enactments
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857423863
SKU
V9780857423863
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About Rachel Bowditch (Ed.)
Rachel Bowditch is a theater director and associate professor in the School of Film, Dance, and Theatre at the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. She is the author of On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man, also published by Seagull Books. Pegge Vissicaro is director of the Office for Global ... Read more
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