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1 online resource (257 pages) |
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Cover; Exercises for Rebel Artists; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Special thanks y muchas gracias; Introduction; Aims and motivations of a Pocha Nostra performance workshop; Notes to producers and workshop facilitators; Identifying and preparing the space; Important notes to workshop participants; Words to try to avoid when conducting a workshop; Performance exercises, rituals, and games to cross borders; Part 1: "Hands-on" physical and perceptual exercises; Part 2: Conceptual and poetic exercises; Part 3: Exercises to generate performance material and living images |
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Part 4: The infamous Pocha "jam sessions"Part 5: Preparing for a public performance; Syllabus for performance workshops; Humble advice for emerging performance artists; In a permanent process of reinvention (a conversation); Part 1: The beginning of a new era; Part 2: Opening up the methodology; Part 3: Inclusivity and the performance "moment"; Part 4: Strategies for negotiating external and internal border issues in a Pocha workshop setting; Letter from Oaxaca; Mapping territories of inquiry; Index |
| Summary |
In Exercises for Rebel Artists, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes use their extensive teaching and performance experience with La Pocha Nostra to help students and practitioners to create 'border art'. Designed to take readers right into the heart of radical performance, the authors use a series of crucial practical exercises, honed in workshops worldwide, to help create challenging theatre which transcends the boundaries of nation, gender, and racial identity. The book features:Detailed exercises for using Pocha Nostra methods in workshopsInspirational approaches for anyone creating, p |
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Print version record |
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Performance art -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs
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Experimental theater -- Study and teaching -- Activity programs
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Multicultural education -- Activity programs.
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Artists -- Training of
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Cross-cultural orientation.
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ART -- Mixed-Media.
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Artists -- Training of
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Cross-cultural orientation
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Multicultural education -- Activity programs
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sifuentes, Roberto
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| ISBN |
9781136822230 |
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1136822232 |
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