1st Edition

Collaborative Performance for Social Justice In Classrooms, on Campuses, and with Communities

By Tessa Carr, Deanna Shoemaker Copyright 2025
212 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

212 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This engaging book offers a broad spectrum of collaborative and accessible performance-based practices that promote social justice within college classrooms, rehearsal spaces, campus stages and local communities. Performance is an inherently collective and embodied endeavor. As a form of communication activism, performance also serves as a powerful mode of teaching and learning that demands... Read more

1. Introduction to Collaborative Performances for Social Justice

2. Putting Embodied and Collaborative Performance Pedagogies into Practice in Classrooms

3. Staging Interruptions, Deconstructions, and Reimaginings through Feminist Direction

4. Feminist Devising Methods as Situational/Relational Praxis

5. Activating the Archive through Adaptation (Collaged Collaborative Performances)

6. Community Performance Collaborations for Social Justice: Spectrums of Democratic Engagement

Biography

Tessa Carr is a Professor of Theatre and Dance at Auburn University, U.S.A.

Deanna Shoemaker is a Professor of Communication and Performance Studies at Monmouth University, U.S.A.