Overview
- Focuses on the transformative power of performance outside the theatre as a way of engaging social problems
- Documents the broad range of the performance activist movement and its major variants around the world
- Combines an historical study of the processes
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development (PPLD)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Performance Leaves the Theatre and Joins the Revolution
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(Some of) What Performance Activism Does
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Re-performing the World
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About this book
This is the first book length study of performance activism. While Performance Studies recognizes the universality of human performance in daily life, what is specifically under investigation here is performance as an activity intentionally entered into as a means of engaging social issues and conflicts, that is, as an ensemble activity by which we re-construct/transform social reality. Performance Activism: Precursors and Contemporary Pioneers provides a global overview of the growing interface of performance with education, therapy, conflict resolution, civic engagement, community development and social justice activism. It combines an historical study of the processes by which, over the course of the 20th Century, performance has been loosened from the institutional constraints of the theatre with a mosaic-like overview of the diverse work/play of contemporary performance activists around the world.
Performance Activism will be of interest to theatre and cultural historians, performance practitioners and researchers, psychologists and sociologists, educators and youth workers, community organizers and political activists.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dan Friedman is the Artistic Director Emeritus of the Castillo Theatre in New York City, a lead organizer of the bi-annual Performing the World Conference, and is on the faculty of the East Side Institute, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performance Activism
Book Subtitle: Precursors and Contemporary Pioneers
Authors: Dan Friedman
Series Title: Palgrave Studies In Play, Performance, Learning, and Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80591-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80590-6Published: 04 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-80593-7Published: 05 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-80591-3Published: 02 December 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-2630
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 292
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Performing Arts, Contemporary Theatre, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development, Comparative Social Policy