During the week before Labor Day every year, 35,000 people gather in Nevada s Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City. At the center of Black Rock City is a 40-foot wooden effigy of a man, an icon around which art, performance, and community revolve. Since 1986, the Burning Man Festival named for this effigy has evolved from founder Larry Harvey s personal healing ritual into a cultural movement where ceremony, religion, visual art, and performance converge on an epic scale.
In "On the Edge of Utopia," Rachel Bowditch performer, theatre director, scholar, and Burning Man participant...
During the week before Labor Day every year, 35,000 people gather in Nevada s Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City. At the center of Black R...
In her landmark study Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, Jill Dolan departed from historical writings on utopia, which suggest that social reorganization and the redistribution of wealth are utopian efforts, to argue instead that utopia occurs in fragmentary "utopian moments," often found embedded within performance. While Dolan focused on the utopian performative within a theatrical context, this volume, edited by Rachel Bowditch and Pegge Vissicaro, expands her theories to encompass performance in public life--from diasporic hip-hop battles, Chilean military parades,...
In her landmark study Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, Jill Dolan departed from historical writings on utopia, which suggest...
