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OverviewThis volume documents the creation of Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way, a play written and performed by Monique Mojica with collaborators from diverse disciplines. Inspired by the pictographic writing and mola textiles of the Guna, an indigenous people of Panama and Colombia, the book explores Mojica’s unique approach to the performance process. Her method activates an Indigenous theatrical process that privileges the body in contrast to Western theater’s privileging of the written text, and rethinks the role of land, body, and movement, as well as dramatic story-structure and performance style. Co-authored with anthropologist Brenda Farnell, the book challenges the divide between artist and scholar, and addresses the many levels of cultural, disciplinary, and linguistic translations required to achieve this. Placing the complex intellect inherent to Indigenous Knowledges at its center, the book engages Indigenous performance theory, and concepts that link body, land, and story, such as terra nullius/corpus nullius, mapping, pattern literacy, land literacy, and movement literacy. Enhanced by contributions from other artists and scholars, the book challenges Eurocentric ideologies about what counts as “performance” and what is required from an “audience,” as well as long-standing body-mind dualisms. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Monique Mojica , Brenda FarnellPublisher: The University of Michigan Press Imprint: The University of Michigan Press ISBN: 9780472056217ISBN 10: 0472056212 Pages: 164 Publication Date: 31 July 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Foreword…Forward: Earth Divers in the House of Balu Wala (Jill Carter) Prologue: Verbing Art (Monique Mojica) Chapter 1 Mola Dulad Agbanaed (Living Mola Moving): Reclamations, Reenactments and Creating an Embodied Script Chapter 2 Dule Wagan Reading Molas (with Sue Patricia Haglund and Gloria Miguel) Chapter 3 The Road to Gunayala Chapter 4 Working Process for Mapping Embodied Performance (with JosÉ A. Colman and Sue Patricia Haglund) Chapter 5 The Making of Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Towards a Culturally Specific Dramaturgy (Ric Knowles) Chapter 6 Scoring the Body: The Mola Dulad as Movement Score Chapter 7 Intersections: Pattern Literacy, Metaphor and Mapping Chapter 8 Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way – Vocal Script References Cited IndexReviewsAuthor InformationMonique Mojica is an independent actor, playwright, dramaturg, theater instructor, lecturer, and artist-scholar. Brenda Farnell is Professor of Socio-Cultural & Linguistic Anthropology and American Indian Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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