Performing Utopia / 
edited by Rachel Bowditch and Pegge Vissicaro 
 - 334 pàgines :  il·lustracions, fotografies en blanc i negre ;  23 cm 
 - Enactments .
 - Enactments .
<br/><br/>Inclou referències bibliogràfiques i índex 
<br/><br/>Conté: Introduction / Rachel Bowditch and Pegge Vissicaro. Part One: EMBODIED UTOPIAS. Learning from Ngātahi: rapumentary film, the utopian imagination and politics of the possible / Luis Alvarez -- 'Indians on parade': spectacular encounters in the Canadian west / Lisa Doolittle and Anne Flynn -- Quadrilhas caipiras: encountering the difference and making of creative communities in Festas Juninas, São Paulo, Brazil / Pegge Vissica. Part Two: UTOPIAN LAUGHTER FROM MINSTERLSY TO BURLESQUE. The Arizona Renaissance Festival: a performance in three movements / Kevin McHugh and Ann Fletchall -- The wenches of the Philadelphia Mummers Parade: a performance genealogy / Christian Ducomb -- Revealed spaces: the burlesque hall of fame weekend and neo-burlesque performance / Laura Dougherty. Part Three: HETEROTOPIAS AND DYSTOPIAS AS CONTEMPORARY SPACES OF HEALING. Heterotopias of power: miners, Mapuche, and soldiers in the production of the utopian Chile / Néstor Bravo Goldsmith -- Mourning en massed: Tucson's All Souls' Day procession / Rachel Bowditch -- Performing dystopia: Hurricane Katrina and the 2006 Mardi Gras Parade / Katherine Nigh 
<br/><br/> "In her landmark study Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater, Jill Dolan departs 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 a theatrical performance. While Dolan focuses on the utopian performative within a theatrical context, this volume expands her theories to encompass performance in public life - from diasporic hip hop battles, Chilean military parades, commemorative processions, Blackfoot pow-wows and post-Hurricane Katrina Mardi Gras to the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, Festas Juninas in Brazil, the Renaissance Fairs in Arizona and neo-burlesque 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 heteropias enacted through the performing body." -- Contracoberta 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780857423863 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2911586 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Teatre--Filosofia<br/>Teatre i societat<br/>Utopies--Filosofia
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>792.01