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 ...