In Negotiating Performance, major scholars and practitioners of the theatrical arts consider the diversity of Latin American and U. S. Latino performance: indigenous theater, performance art, living installations, carnival, public demonstrations, and gender acts such as transvestism. By redefining performance to include such events as Mayan and AIDS theater, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and Argentinean drag culture, this energetic volume discusses the dynamics of Latino/a identity politics and the sometimes discordant intersection of gender, sexuality, and nationalisms. The...
In Negotiating Performance, major scholars and practitioners of the theatrical arts consider the diversity of Latin American and U. S. Latino p...
In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical...
In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of perform...
In "The Archive and the Repertoire" preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical...
In "The Archive and the Repertoire" preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance ...
In "Disappearing Acts," Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship. The specific identity in question is that of Argentina, and Taylor s focus is directed toward the years 1976 to 1983 in which the Argentine armed forces were pitted against the Argentine people in that nation s "Dirty War." Combining feminism, cultural studies, and performance theory, Taylor analyzes the political spectacles that comprised the war concentration camps, torture, "disappearances" as well as the rise of theatrical productions, demonstrations,...
In "Disappearing Acts," Diana Taylor looks at how national identity is shaped, gendered, and contested through spectacle and spectatorship. The specif...
