UID:
almahu_9949383673002882
Format:
1 online resource (xix, 245 pages)
ISBN:
9780429948275
,
0429948271
,
9780429488221
,
042948822X
,
9780429948282
,
042994828X
,
9780429948268
,
0429948263
Content:
"Casting a Movement brings together US-based actors, directors, educators, playwrights, and scholars to explore the cultural politics of casting. Drawing on the notion of a 'welcome table'--a space where artists of all backgrounds can come together as equals to create theatre--the book's contributors discuss casting practices as they relate to varying communities and contexts, including Middle Eastern American theatre, disability culture, multilingual performance, Native American theatre, color- and culturally-conscious casting, and casting as a means to dismantle stereotypes. Syler and Banks suggest that casting is a way to invite more people to the table so that the full breadth of US identities can be reflected onstage, and that casting is inherently a political act; because an actor's embodied presence both communicates a dramatic narrative and evokes cultural assumptions associated with appearance, skin color, gender, sexuality, and ability, casting choices are never neutral. By bringing together a variety of artistic perspectives to discuss common goals and particular concerns related to casting, this volume features the insights and experiences of a broad range of practitioners and experts across the field. As a resource-driven text suitable for both practitioners and academics, Casting a Movement seeks to frame and mobilize a social movement focused on casting, access, and representation"--
Note:
Foreword : from "I love your freckles" to "representation matters" / Liesl Tommy -- The welcome table : casting for an integrated society / Daniel Banks -- The chasm between / Ayanna Thompson -- Playing with "race" in the new millennium / Justin Emeka -- Nevertheless, whiteness persisted / Brian Eugenio Herrera -- Casting pearls before authenticity / Yussef El Guindi -- Reorienting : a Middle Eastern American casting case study / Torange Yeghiazarian -- Casting Middle Eastern American theatre : cultural, academic, and professional challenges / Michael Malek Najjar -- Casting disabled actors : taking our rightful place onstage / Christine Bruno -- The difference disability makes : unique considerations in casting performers with disabilities / Carrie Sandahl -- A great and complicated thing : reimagining disability / Victoria Lewis -- The sea will listen / Caridad Svich -- Setting a global table with multilingual theatre / Eunice S. Ferreira -- Creating emergent spaces : casting, community-building, and extended dramaturgy / Ann Elizabeth Armstrong -- Journey / Ty Defoe (Giizhig) -- Native voices at the Autry : casting the room / Randy Reinholz (Choctaw) and Jean Bruce Scott -- Decolonial practices for contemporary native theatre / Courtney Elkin Mohler -- Whose story is this to tell? / Mei Ann Teo -- Casting, cross-racial performance, and the work of creativity / Dorinne Kondo -- Artists of color/cross-racial casting / Donatella Galella -- Reaparecer / Elaine Ávila -- Collidescope 2.0 : performing the "alien gaze" / Priscilla Page -- The spatio-temporal logics of collidescope's welcome table / Brandi Wilkins Catanese.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Casting a movement London ; Routledge, 2019. ISBN 9781138594470
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9780429488221
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429488221
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