Girls, Performance, and Activism Demanding to be Heard
Auteur : Edell Dana
Girls, Performance, and Activism offers artists, activists, educators, and scholars a comprehensive analysis, celebration, and critique of the ways in which teenage girls create and perform activist theater.
Girls, particularly Black and Latinx teenagers, are using the tools of performance to share their stories, devise new ones, and use the stage to advocate for social change. Interweaving interviews, poetic text, drama, and theory, this book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how and why this field erupted and the ways in which girls are using performance to transform themselves and enact change in their communities. As a white woman who has collaboratively created theater with hundreds of girls of color over the past 20 years, Dana Edell offers strategies for engaging with girls across difference through an intersectional lens in order to acknowledge the ways in which race, gender, age, class, ability, and sexuality influence girls? experiences and relationships with adult collaborators as they work to create meaningful, impactful, and often personal activist performances.
This is the go-to handbook for teachers, theater directors, and performance makers who want to create politically engaged work with teenage girls.
1 "Under Construction": Girls, Performance, and Activism 2 "This is Not a Safe Space": Principles of Theatermaking with Girls 3 "Real Im(PERFECT)ions": Performing Confidence, Expressing Agency 4 "Held Momentarily": For an Audience of One… Plus 5 "Shut Up and Listen!": Performance in Public Spaces 6 "Finally Someone Hears Us": Considering Our Audiences
Dana Edell is an assistant professor of Applied Theatre at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
Date de parution : 08-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 08-2021
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de Girls, Performance, and Activism :
Mots-clés :
Black Girls; Real Girls; Make Up; White Savior Complex; viBe Show; UN; Extracurricular; Wo; Hip Hop; Young Men; White Supremacy Culture; Nonprofit Industrial Complex; NBC Nightly News; AOC; Teen Vogue; Applied Theatre Projects; Adolescent African American Women; Hip Hop Feminism; Jesmyn Ward; LGBTQ Mental Health; APA Task Force; Applied Theatre; Zoom Interface; Pussy Hat; Sexualized Attire