Community Performance: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780367184360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 266 str.

Petra Kuppers

Opis

Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, dance and theatre. The second edition aligns itself with a changed world of social media engagement, funding shifts, and new opportunities for people to reflect on the social power of perf

Spis treści

List of Illustrations  Preface to Second Edition  1. Introduction  2. Remembering histories  3. Setting up and running a group  4. Finding motivations: images, sounds, tastes, touches  5. Finding inspirations: stories, legends, myths  6. Documentation, evaluation, reporting  7. Building sustainability  Epilogue  References Index

O autorze

Petra Kuppers is an internationally active disability culture activist, a community performance artist, Artistic Director of The Olimpias performance research collective, and a Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also teaches on the low-residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College.