Performing the Intercultural City
Performing the Intercultural City

Author: Richard Paul Knowles

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2017-09-08

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 0472053604

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Explores how theater in Toronto, the world's most multicultural city, vibrantly reflects its diversity and cultural makeup

Moving Together
Moving Together

Author: Allana C. Lindgren

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2021-05-11

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1771124849

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Moving Together: Dance and Pluralism in Canada explores how dance intersects with the shifting concerns of pluralism in a variety of racial and ethnic communities across Canada. Focusing on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, contributors examine a broad range of dance styles used to promote diversity and intercultural collaborations. Examples include Fijian dance in Vancouver; Japanese dance in Lethbridge; Danish, Chinese, Kathak, and Flamenco dance in Toronto; African and European contemporary dance styles in Montréal; and Ukrainian dance in Cape Breton. Interviews with Indigenous and Middle Eastern dance artists along with an artist statement by a Bharata Natyam and contemporary dance choreographer provide valuable artist perspectives. Contributors offer strategies to decolonize dance education and also challenge longstanding critiques of multiculturalism. Moving Together demonstrates that dance is at the cutting edge of rethinking the contours of race and ethnicity in Canada and is necessary reading for scholars, students, dance artists and audiences, and everyone interested in thinking about the future of racial and ethnic pluralism in Canada.

Interculturalism and Performance Now
Interculturalism and Performance Now

Author: Charlotte McIvor

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-12-29

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 303002704X

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This book is the first edited collection to respond to an undeniable resurgence of critical activity around the controversial theoretical term ‘interculturalism’ in theatre and performance studies. Long one of the field’s most vigorously debated concepts, intercultural performance has typically referred to the hybrid mixture of performance forms from different cultures (typically divided along an East-West or North-South axis) and its related practices frequently charged with appropriation, exploitation or ill-founded universalism. New critical approaches since the late 2000s and early 2010s instead reveal a plethora of localized, grassroots, diasporic and historical approaches to the theory and practice of intercultural performance which make available novel critical and political possibilities for performance practitioners and scholars. This collection consolidates and pushes forward reflection on these recent shifts by offering case studies from Asia, Africa, Australasia, Latin America, North America, and Western Europe which debate the possibilities and limitations of this theoretical turn towards a ‘new’ interculturalism.

A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age
A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age

Author: Kim Solga

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-08-08

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1350135488

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To call something modern is to assert something fundamental about the social, cultural, economic and technical sophistication of that thing, over and against what has come before. A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of theatre and performance in their social and material contexts from the late 19th century through the early 2000s, emphasizing key developments and trends that both exemplify and trouble the various meanings of the term 'modern', and the identity of modernist theatre and performance. Highly illustrated with 40 images, the ten chapters each take a different theme as their focus: institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of performance; and knowledge transmission.

Western Theatre in Global Contexts
Western Theatre in Global Contexts

Author: Yasmine Marie Jahanmir

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-08-12

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0429534000

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Western Theatre in Global Contexts explores the junctures, tensions, and discoveries that occur when teaching Western theatrical practices or directing English-language plays in countries that do not share Western theatre histories or in which English is the non-dominant language. This edited volume examines pedagogical discoveries and teaching methods, how to produce specific plays and musicals, and how students who explore Western practices in non-Western places contribute to the art form. Offering on-the-ground perspectives of teaching and working outside of North American and Europe, the book analyzes the importance of paying attention to the local context when developing theatrical practice and education. It also explores how educators and artists who make deep connections in the local culture can facilitate ethical accessibility to Western models of performance for students, practitioners and audiences. Western Theatre in Global Contexts is an excellent resource for scholars, artists, and teachers that are working abroad or on intercultural projects in theatre, education and the arts.

Canadian Multiculturalism @50
Canadian Multiculturalism @50

Author: Augie Fleras

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-07-26

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9004466568

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Canadian Multiculturalism @50 offers a critically-informed overview of Canada’s official multiculturalism against a half-century of successes and failures, benefits and costs, contradictions and consensus, and criticism and praise. Admittedly, not a perfect governance model, but one demonstrably better than other models.

The Bombay Plays
The Bombay Plays

Author: Anosh Irani

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781770917668

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From renowned author Anosh Irani comes an updated edition of The Bombay Plays featuring two plays that explore the depths of the back alleys of Bombay.