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OverviewIn 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, commemorative processions, Blackfoot powwows, and post-Katrina Mardi Gras to the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, Festas Juninas in Brazil, the Renaissance Fairs in Arizona, and neoburlesque competitions. How do these performances rehearse and enact visions of a utopic world? What can the lens of utopia and dystopia illuminate about the potential of performing bodies to transform communities, identities, values, and beliefs across time? Performing Utopia not only answers these questions, but offers a diverse collection of case studies focusing on utopias, dystopias, and heterotopias enacted through the performing body. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rachel Bowditch , Pegge VissicaroPublisher: Seagull Books London Ltd Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd Dimensions: Width: 1.50cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 2.30cm Weight: 0.510kg ISBN: 9780857423863ISBN 10: 085742386 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 12 January 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsPerforming Utopia [is] an insightful reminder of the broad range of activities that can be analyzed through a utopian lens and the responsibility to address the dystopias and heterotopias that are often unintended byproducts of utopia. -- Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism Author InformationRachel Bowditch is a theater director and associate professor in the School of Film, Dance, and Theatre at the Herberger Institute of Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. She is the author of On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man, also published by Seagull Books. Pegge Vissicaro is director of the Office for Global Dance Research and Creative Partnerships, Arizona State University. She is the author of Studying Dance Cultures around the World. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |