Literary Nonfiction. Drama. RADICAL ACTS is an exciting and innovative compilation of essays and interviews about how feminist approaches to teaching theater challenge and engage students, teachers, and audiences alike. Contributors include theater practitioners working in a wide variety of settings (university, community, high school, and professional theaters) and with diverse social groups (disabled, working class, people of color), offering not only bracing critiques of mainstream theater institutions and practices, but inspiring and energizing accounts of how to create a more inclusive,...

The Alexander Technique is a specific form of mind/body practice that focusses on improving efficiency through learning and understanding movement and behavior. Galvanizing Performances applies the teachings of this practice to the performing arts. Through theatre, music, and dance, the contributors, all artists themselves, demonstrate how deliberate movement can improve an individual's art and benefit their general health and wellbeing. Using specific case examples and in-depth analysis over a range of performance arts, this book supports instruction of effective movement and the...