Performance in the Borderlands

Performance in the Borderlands
Author: R. Rivera-Servera
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2010-11-17
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0230294553

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A border is a force of containment that inspires dreams of being overcome and crossed; motivates bodies to climb over; and threatens physical harm. This book critically examines a range of cultural performances produced in relation to the tensions and movements of/about the borders dividing North America, including the Caribbean.

Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands

Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands
Author: Arturo J. Aldama
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2012-10-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0253002958

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In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of "borderlands." This volume features senior scholars and up-and-coming academics from cultural, visual, and performance studies, folklore, and ethnomusicology.

Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands

Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands
Author: Arturo J. Aldama
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 523
Release: 2012-10-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0253008778

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In this interdisciplinary volume, contributors analyze the expression of Latina/o cultural identity through performance. With music, theater, dance, visual arts, body art, spoken word, performance activism, fashion, and street theater as points of entry, contributors discuss cultural practices and the fashoning of identity in Latino/a communities throughout the US. Examining the areas of crossover between Latin and American cultures gives new meaning to the notion of "borderlands." This volume features senior scholars and up-and-coming academics from cultural, visual, and performance studies, folklore, and ethnomusicology.

The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies

The SAGE Handbook of Performance Studies
Author: D. Soyini Madison
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 592
Release: 2006
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780761929314

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Ecological Borderlands

Ecological Borderlands
Author: Christina Holmes
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2016-10-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0252098986

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Environmental practices among Mexican American woman have spurred a reconsideration of ecofeminism among Chicana feminists. Christina Holmes examines ecological themes across the arts, Chicana activism, and direct action groups to reveal how Chicanas can craft alternative models for ecofeminist processes. Holmes revisits key debates to analyze issues surrounding embodiment, women's connections to nature, and spirituality's role in ecofeminist philosophy and practice. By doing so, she challenges Chicanas to escape the narrow frameworks of the past in favor of an inclusive model of environmental feminism that alleviates Western biases. Holmes uses readings of theory, elaborations of ecological narratives in Chicana cultural productions, histories of human and environmental rights struggles in the Southwest, and a description of an activist exemplar to underscore the importance of living with decolonializing feminist commitment in body, nature, and spirit.

Borderlands Art Practice

Borderlands Art Practice
Author: Christen Garcia
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018
Genre:
ISBN:

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In this study, I perform identity as a shifting borderlands theorized through the process and product of art, performance, writing, and pedagogy. The importance of this study is to first, address a gap in the literature on border and Chicana/o artists in relation to borderlands theories. Second, this study considers what borderlands through food, art, and performance offer spaces of art education. For this study, I employ a methodology of borderlands art practice, a practice-based research that addresses border artist practices and undervisible borderlands spaces. I engage in practices of making food, images, video/GIFs, and performative writing. Next, I use theories and concepts that emerged from the art and performative processes as well as the disciplines of food, public, and border pedagogies to create an uncertain art pedagogy. A multiplicitous mass of doings emerged from this study that performed the borderlands of identity, race/ethnicity, authenticity, and hybrid and impure food practices of the in-between. The visual and performative outcome of this study is fragmented, ambiguous, uncertain, and ambivalent. These processes sit on the borderlands of art education and are comfortable with liminality and uncertainty. Through experience and conversation, hybridized food practices generate new knowledge, or rather, uncertain knowledge. This dissertation occupies an uncertain discipline space in-between art, art education, Chicana/o and Latina/o studies, and food studies. Neither fully art, art education, food nor Chicana/o/Latina/o studies, this study is what queer Chicana writer and feminist theorist Gloria Anzalda describes as a borderland, a vague and undetermined place.

Borderlands Children's Theatre

Borderlands Children's Theatre
Author: Cecilia Josephine Aragón
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022
Genre: American drama
ISBN: 9780367559199

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"This book chronicles the child performer as part of the Mexican-American/Chicana/o theatre experience. Borderlands Children's Theatre explores the phenomenon of the Mexican-American/Chicana/o child performer at the center of Chicana/o and Latina/o theatre culture. Drawing from historical and contemporary theatrical traditions to finally the emergence of Latina/o Youth Theatre and Latina/o Theatre for Young Audiences, it raises crucial questions about the role of the child in these performative contexts and about how childhood and adolescence was experienced and understood. Analyzing contemporary plays for Mexican-American/Chicana/o child performer, it introduces theorizations of "performing mestizaje" and "border crossing" borderlands performance, gender, and ethnic identity and investigates theatre as a site in which children and youth have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods. This book adds to the national and international dialogue in theatre and gives voice to Mexican-American/Chicana/o children and youth and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Theatre studies and Latina/o studies"--

Performance and Professional Wrestling

Performance and Professional Wrestling
Author: Broderick Chow
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2016-08-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1317385071

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Performance and Professional Wrestling is the first edited volume to consider professional wrestling explicitly from the vantage point of theatre and performance studies. Moving beyond simply noting its performative qualities or reading it via other performance genres, this collection of essays offers a complete critical reassessment of the popular sport. Topics such as the suspension of disbelief, simulation, silence and speech, physical culture, and the performance of pain within the squared circle are explored in relation to professional wrestling, with work by both scholars and practitioners grouped into seven short sections: Audience Circulation Lucha Gender Queerness Bodies Race A significant re-reading of wrestling as a performing art, Performance and Professional Wrestling makes essential reading for scholars and students intrigued by this uniquely theatrical sport.

Borderlands Children’s Theatre

Borderlands Children’s Theatre
Author: Cecilia Josephine Aragón
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2022-03-03
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1000533824

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This book chronicles the child performer as part of the Chicana/o/Mexican-American theatre experience. Borderlands Children’s Theatre explores the phenomenon of the Chicana/o/Mexican-American child performer at the center of Chicana/o and Latina/o theatre culture. Drawing from historical and contemporary theatrical traditions to finally the emergence of Latina/o Youth Theatre and Latina/o Theatre for Young Audiences, it raises crucial questions about the role of the child in these performative contexts and about how childhood and adolescence was experienced and understood. Analyzing contemporary plays for Chicana/o/Mexican-American child performer, it introduces theorizations of "performing mestizaje" and "border crossing" borderlands performance, gender, and ethnic identity and investigates theatre as a site in which children and youth have the opportunity to articulate their emerging selfhoods. This book adds to the national and international dialogue in theatre and gives voice to Chicana/o/Mexican-American children and youth and will be of great interest to students and scholars of Theatre studies and Latina/o studies.