Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right
Title | Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right PDF eBook |
Author | Kimberly Jannarone |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2015-11-06 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0472119672 |
Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right challenges assumptions regarding “radical” and “experimental” performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The book brings to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes the performances intended to oppose. In so doing, the volume explores a central paradox: how innovative performances that challenge oppressive power structures can also be deployed in deliberate, passionate support of oppressive power. Essays by leading international scholars pose engaging questions about the historical avant-garde, vanguard acts, and the complex role of artistic innovation and live performance in global politics. Focusing on performances that work against progressive and democratic ideas (including scripted drama, staged suicide, choral dance, terrorism, rallies, and espionage), the book demonstrates how many compelling performance ideals—unification, exaltation, immersion—are, in themselves, neither moral nor immoral; they are only emotional and aesthetic urges that can be powerfully channeled into a variety of social and political outlets.
Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right
Title | Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right PDF eBook |
Author | Kimberly Jannarone |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2015-11-06 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0472121391 |
Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right challenges assumptions regarding “radical” and “experimental” performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The book brings to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative values, or have been effectively snapped up by right-wing regimes the performances intended to oppose. In so doing, the volume explores a central paradox: how innovative performances that challenge oppressive power structures can also be deployed in deliberate, passionate support of oppressive power. Essays by leading international scholars pose engaging questions about the historical avant-garde, vanguard acts, and the complex role of artistic innovation and live performance in global politics. Focusing on performances that work against progressive and democratic ideas (including scripted drama, staged suicide, choral dance, terrorism, rallies, and espionage), the book demonstrates how many compelling performance ideals—unification, exaltation, immersion—are, in themselves, neither moral nor immoral; they are only emotional and aesthetic urges that can be powerfully channeled into a variety of social and political outlets.
Theatre Symposium, Vol. 30
Title | Theatre Symposium, Vol. 30 PDF eBook |
Author | Chase Bringardner |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2023-05-09 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 081737017X |
Illustrates how theatre's engagement with politics changes over time
Artaud and His Doubles
Title | Artaud and His Doubles PDF eBook |
Author | Kimberly Jannarone |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2012-06-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0472035150 |
DIVA radical re-thinking of one of the most canonized figures in theater history, theory, and practice/div
Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
Title | Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 752 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women
Title | Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women PDF eBook |
Author | Penny Farfan |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 327 |
Release | 2021-07-22 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 047205435X |
Explores how women playwrights illuminate the contemporary world and contribute to its reshaping
Supercorp
Title | Supercorp PDF eBook |
Author | Rosabeth Moss Kanter |
Publisher | Profile Books |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2010-10-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1847652298 |
Throughout her extraordinary career, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter has always pushed the boundaries through her high-level field research, and her breakthrough ideas with practical applications for a broad audience. One of the world's bestselling business thinkers, her work on leadership and change management has influenced the most enlightened and successful executives and entrepreneurs. Supercorp, based on a three-year worldwide research program, provides the answer to a question crucial to both business and society more broadly: as a company grows, how can it avoid becoming a lumbering, corrupt giant? Companies such as IBM, Procter & Gamble, Mexican-based Cemex and Japanese-based Omron provide the models that businesses small and large can use to stay on track, outstrip the competition, and attract and motivate the new generation of talent. And, Professor Kanter provides the evidence of the powerful synergy between the financial success shareholders want and social conscience - it is only these 'vanguard companies' that are big but human, efficient but innovative, global but local, that will succeed in the future.