An encounter with Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes of La Pocha Nostra.
| Artist / Author | Dorothy Max Prior |
|---|---|
| Reference | A0225 |
| Date | 2008 |
| Journal | Total Theatre |
| Journal date | Autumn 2008 |
| Type | Article |
Performance Research Vol 6. No. 1. Spring 2001
Departures
The first of three related issues which engage with the migrations of people, performance and performance cultures, generating writing around differing geographies and histories of travel and travelling performance in a diversity of written and visual forms.
Leaving Berlin : On the Performance of Monumental Change
Nicolas Whybrow
pp. 37 – 45
A critical examination of the varieties of multiculturalism and the way they structure difference.
Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary.
Provides a comprehensive overview of the development, theory and definitive characteristics of a rapidly developing and popular area of practice.
An exploration of what it means to be fabulous—and why eccentric style, fashion, and creativity are more political than ever.
Explains how Latinx political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje—“mixedness” or “hybridity”—and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding bilingual, bicultural Latin cultures and politics and a challenge to America’s infamously black–white racial regime.
Shows why cognitive injustice underlies all other dimensions; global social justice is not possible without global cognitive justice.
A sweeping account of the way lesbian, gay, and bisexual people have challenged and changed society.
Examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape (2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib.
Wild, hilarious and shameless account of Jayne’s life from her cissy-boy childhood in Georgia to her 90s renaissance, as a new wave of superstars claim her as their inspiration.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)
Short programme of the project which saw 2DL invite other artists into a conversation on identity.