Collaborative Performance for Social Justice

This engaging book offers a broad spectrum of collaborative, accessible performance-based practices to promote social justice and activist communication in the college classroom and campus, and local communities. It is essential for scholars and practitioners of communication, theater and performance studies, and more.

This engaging book offers a broad spectrum of collaborative and accessible performance-based practices that promote social justice within college classrooms, rehearsal spaces, campus stages and local communities.

Performance is an inherently collective and embodied endeavor. As a form of communication activism, performance also serves as a powerful mode of teaching and learning that demands equitable relationships and mutually established group norms that offer all a seat at the table. Informed by intersectional feminist and antiracist theories, the authors present collaborative performance case studies, ranging from interventions into local histories of oppression to creative protests of campus and cultural practices, to staged interruptions of social discourses and representational systems that perpetuate structural inequities. Illustrating the multiple possibilities of performance, the book offers adaptable tools, evocative stories, and vivid examples from diverse bodies of work. This engaged scholarship is committed to honoring multiple forms of knowledge, acknowledging and building the capacities of individuals and organizations, identifying and developing more spaces for critical dialogue, and envisioning and performing a more socially just world.

This book is essential reading for scholars and practitioners of communication, theater, performance studies, arts-based education, and social justice activism.

Autorentext

Tessa Carr is a Professor of Theatre and Dance at Auburn University, U.S.A.

Deanna Shoemaker is a Professor of Communication and Performance Studies at Monmouth University, U.S.A.

Inhalt

1. Introduction to Collaborative Performances for Social Justice 2. Putting Embodied and Collaborative Performance Pedagogies into Practice in Classrooms 3. Staging Interruptions, Deconstructions, and Reimaginings through Feminist Direction 4. Feminist Devising Methods as Situational/Relational Praxis 5. Activating the Archive through Adaptation (Collaged Collaborative Performances) 6. Community Performance Collaborations for Social Justice: Spectrums of Democratic Engagement