Performance on Behalf of the Environment.

Performance on Behalf of the Environment.

Performance on Behalf of the Environment is a collection of essays from a diverse group of scholars representing the fields of art, communication studies, dance, environmental studies, performance studies, rhetoric, and theater. They explore critically the strengths, limitations, and processes of wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Besel, Richard D.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington Books, 2013.
Subjects:
Environment (Art)
Environmentalism in art.
Performance art.
ART > Performance.
ART > Reference.
Environmentalism in art
Performance art
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: performance on behalf of the environment / Jnan A. Blau and Richard D. Besel
  • pt. I. Performers and audiences. It's a party, not a protest: environmental community co-incident performance, and the San Jose Bike Party / David Terry and Anne Marie Todd ; Performing nonhuman liberation: how the ALF and ELF rupture the poltical imagination / Jason Dle Gandio ; Eco-comedy performance: an alchemy of environmentalism and humor / Alison Bodkin ; Embodied perspective by incongruity: environmental critique in an age of everyday performance / Richard D. Besel
  • pt. II. Places and spaces. Reinhabiting the land: from vacant lot to garden plot / Barbar Willard ; "Progress fell upon us": ecotourism, culture, and performance in the Peruvian Amazon / Jnan A. Blau ; "On finding ways of being": kinesthetic empathy in dance and ecology / Julia Handschuh ; Indeterminate hikdes+: hiking through urban wilderness / Leila C. Nadir and Cary Peppermint
  • pt. III. Materials and processes. Indigenous theatre in global times: situated knowledge and ecological communities in Salmon Is Everything and Burning Vision / Theresa J. May ; Staging sustainable Shakespeare: "Greening" the Bard while advancing institutional mission / Ray Schultz and Jess Larson ; Puppet planets and spirit soldiers: staging ecological representations in Baby Universe and Forgotten World / Courtney Ryan.

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