Engaging Performance Av Jan (Syracuse University Usa) Cohen-Cruz

<P><EM>Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response</EM> presents a combined analysis and workbook to examine "socially engaged performance." It offers a range of key practical approaches, exercises, and principles for using performance to engage in a variety of social and artistic projects. Author</P><P>Jan Cohen-Cruz draws on a career of groundbreaking research and work within the fields of political, applied, and community theatre to explore the impact of how differing genres of theatre respond to social "calls."</P><P></P><P>Areas highlighted include:</P><P></P><UL><P><LI>playwrighting and the engaged artist</LI><P></P><P><LI>theatre of the oppressed</LI><P></P><P><LI>performance as testimonial</LI><P></P><P><LI>the place of engaged art in cultural organizing</LI><P></P><P><LI>the use of local resources in engaged art</LI><P></P><P><LI>revitalizing cities and neighborhoods through engaged performance</LI><P></P><P><LI>training of the engaged artist.</LI><P></P></UL><P></P><P>