Black Acting Methods : Critical Approaches /
Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with. A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics, and interviews with key figures in Black America...
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| Format: | Electrònic eBook |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Milton :
Taylor and Francis,
2017
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| Accés en línia: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Taula de continguts:
- Foreword: the blessing / Molefi Kete Asante
- Introduction: the affirmation / Sharrell D. Luckett and Tia M. Schaffer
- Part 1. Methods of social activism 1. The Hendricks method / Sharrell D. Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer
- 2. SoulWork / Cristal Chanelle Truscott
- 3. Nudging the memory: creating performance with the Medea Project: theatre for incarcerated women / Rhodessa Jones
- 4. Art saves lives: Rebecca Rice and the performance of Black feminist improv for social change / Lisa Biggs
- Part 2. Methods of intervention
- 5. Seeking Shakespeare through brown eyes / Justin Emeka
- 6. Ritual poetic drama within the African continuum: the journey from Shakespeare to Shange / Tawnya Pettiford-Wates
- 7. Remembering, rewriting, and re-imagining: Afrocentric approaches to directing new work for the theatre / Clinnesha D. Sibley
- Part 3. Methods of cultural plurality
- 8. The Hip Hop Theatre Initiative: we the Griot / Daniel Banks
- 9. Kadogo Mojo: global crossings in the theatre / Aku Kadogo
- 10. #UnyieldingTruth: employing culturally relevant pedagogy / Kashi Johnson and Daphnie Sicre
- Part 4. Reflections from distinguished practitioners
- 11. Rituals, processes, methods / Judyie Al-Bilali, Tim Bond, Sheldon Epps, Shirley Jo Finney, Nataki Garrett, Anita Gonzalez, Paul Carter Harrison, Robbie McCauley, Seret Scott, Tommie "Tonea" Stewart and Talvin Wilks
- 12. Words of wisdom for actors / Talvin Wilks, Sheldon Epps, Shirley Jo Finney, Walter Dallas, Kamilah Forbes, Kym Moore, Judyie Al-Bilali, Tim Bond, Nataki Garrett, Paul Carter Harrison, Anita Gonzalez, Ron Himes and Seret Scott
- Appendix: recommendations for acting/performance programs that seek to provide equitable training.