1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance Volume Two – Brazil, West Africa, South and South East Asia, United Kingdom, and the Arab World
The Routledge Companion to Applied Performance provides an in-depth, far-reaching and provocative consideration of how scholars and artists negotiate the theoretical, historical and practical politics of applied performance, both in the academy and beyond.
These volumes offer insights from within and beyond the sphere of English-speaking scholarship, curated by regional experts in applied performance. The reader will gain an understanding of some of the dominant preoccupations of performance in specified regions, enhanced by contextual framing. From the dis(h)arming of the human body through dance in Colombia to clowning with dementia in Australia, via challenges to violent nationalism in the Balkans, transgender performance in Pakistan and resistance rap in Kashmir, the essays, interviews and scripts are eloquent testimony to the courage and hope of people who believe in the power of art to renew the human spirit.
Students, academics, practitioners, policy-makers, cultural anthropologists and activists will benefit from the opportunities to forge new networks and develop in-depth comparative research offered by this bold, global project.
Introduction to volume two
PART I Brazil
Introduction to Brazil and West Africa
Marina Henriques and Taiwo Afolabi
Chapter 1 Pombas Urbanas: Sowing wings in a banished city
Adailtom Alves Teixeira and Alexandre Falcão de Araújo
Chapter 2 Interview with the Canto da Lagoa Community Theatre Group
Marcia Pompeo Nogueira
Chapter 3 Theatre crossed by the territory in the work of Grupo Código
Jorge Braga Jr.
Chapter 4 On fantastical journeys, who would save the adolescents from Maré?
Marina Henriques
Chapter 5 Every patrol car has a little of the slave ship: The emergency of the listening place
Altemar Di Monteiro
Chapter 6 The memory of the Contestado War in the musical theatre of youth from rural settlements in the south of Brazil
Elaine Cristina da Silva and Tereza Mara Franzoni
Chapter 7 Paraíso do Tuiuti: “I am not a slave of no master”: The carnival of 2018 stars in the political debate about the 2016 coup in Brazil
Fátima Costa de Lima
Chapter 8 The power of subtle learning: Directions and achievements of the Heliópolis Theatre Company
Maria Fernanda Vomero
PART II
West Africa
Chapter 9 Functional arts: Theatre praxis in Burkina Faso
Taiwo Afolabi
Chapter 10 Conversation: A folktale-based community play as a model for stimulating community development
Isi Agboaye
Chapter 11 Geographies of conflict: Resolving farmer-herdsmen conflict through street theatre
Alex C. Asigbo and Tochukwu J. Okeke
Chapter 12 Politics of/and performance spaces in the Theatre of Social Action: Two decades of Segun Adefila’s Crown Troupe of Africa
Tunji Azeez
Chapter 13 Applied performances in Burkina Faso: Methodological and topographical overview and challenges
Annette Bühler-Dietrich
Chapter 14 The Anglophone problem in Cameroon: Participatory theatre and video construal
Tume Fondzeyuf K.
PART III South Asia
Introduction to Part III: Framing the South Asian Discourse
Syed Jamil Ahmed
Chapter 15 Queer performativities in contemporary Pakistan: A genealogical approach
Fawzia Afzal-Khan
Chapter 16 Of stones, songs, and freedom: Languages of resistance in Kashmir
Tanveer Ajsi
Chapter 17 Curfews of thought
Ruwanthie de Chickera
Chapter 18 Towards a pedagogic analysis of dance and movement therapy
Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
Chapter 19 Street theatre in Afghanistan: A roundtable
Sadeq Naseri (chair)
Chapter 20 A conversation: The Third Tune (Teesri Dhun)
Claire Pamment, Iram Sana, Naghma Gogi, Neeli Rana, Jannat Ali, Anaya Sheikh, Lucky Khan, and Sunniya Abbasi
Chapter 21 Shat Bhai Chompa: A sociodrama in an urban slum of Dhaka City
Ashfique Rizwan, Rukhshan Fahmi, Tanzir Ahmed Tushar, Abdul Jabbar, Arifur Rahman Apu, A. S. M. Easir Arafat, Atonu Rabbani, and Malabika Sarker
Chapter 22 Storytelling through Playback Theatre: Building a collective consciousness to promote social cohesion in Nepal
Nar Bahadur Saud
Chapter 23 Transforming trauma in post-conflict settings: Ethnographic evidence from a social circus project in Afghanistan
Annika Schmeding
24 Short essays
PART IV The Arab World
Chapter 25 Empowerment, capacity building, and freedom: Expression of women through theater
Marina Barham and Amira Barham
Chapter 26 Street theater in Tunisia: Fanni Raghman Anni (case study)
Seif Eddine Jlassi
PART V The United Kingdom
Introduction to Part V: Performances of Age (UK)
Caoimhe McAvinchey
Chapter 27 Six Songs for Paul: How The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company transform experience into expertise
Ali Campbell
Chapter 28 ‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love’: Staging relational care with Lois Weaver and Split Britches
Jen Harvie
Chapter 29 Welcome to The Posh Club: How high status and low stakes can help build better worlds for marginalised people
Ben Walters
Chapter 30 In the company of others: Entelechy Arts, co-creating with older people
Sue Mayo
Chapter 31 Magic Me: Interview with Chuck Blue Lowry, Kate Hodson, Susan Langford, Sue Mayo and Julian West
Caoimhe McAvinchey
Chapter 32 Having dementia shouldn’t exclude you from cultural experiences: An interview with Nicky Taylor, theatre and dementia research associate, Leeds Playhouse
Caoimhe McAvinchey
PART VI South East Asia
Introduction to Part VI: South East Asia and China: performances of age
June Wee
Chapter 33 Putting dialogue in context: Negotiating contextual influence in applying dialogue theatre
Richard Barber and Pongjit Saphakhun
Chapter 34 Crisis of representation of Afghan culture: an anlysis of Kaikavus and Heartbeat: Silence after the Explosion
Edmund Chow
Chapter 35 Glowing with age
Peggy Ferroa
Chapter 36 Contemporary issues and challenges in applying performance: The case of theatre in education in Hong Kong
Muriel Yuen-Fun Law
Chapter 37 Deceptive simplicity
Michelle Ngu
Chapter 38 Rethinking the research on Both Sides, Now: An arts-based community engagement project on end-of-life in Singapore
Charlene Rajendran and Prue Wales
Chapter 39 Performances of ‘what if ’ and ‘as if ’: Exploring plausible futures through imaginal and vicarious experiences in playbuilding
Jennifer Wong
Biography
Tim Prentki is Emeritus Professor of Theatre for Development at the University of Winchester. He is the co-editor of The Applied Theatre Reader (2008), author of Applied Theatre: Development (2015) and The Fool in European Theatre: Stages of Folly (2011), and co-editor with Ananda Breed of Performance and Civic Engagement (2018).
Ananda Breed is Professor in Theatre at the University of Lincoln. She is the author of Performing the Nation: Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation (2014), co-editor with Tim Prentki of Performance and Civic Engagement (2018), and Principal Investigator of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project Mobile Arts for Peace (MAP): Informing the National Curriculum and Youth Policy for Peacebuilding in Kyrgyzstan, Rwanda, Indonesia and Nepal (2020-2024).
