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Shifting cultural power : case studies and questions in performance

Title
Shifting cultural power : case studies and questions in performance / Hope Mohr with contributions from participants in The Bridge Project ; foreword by Micháele Steinwald.
Author
Mohr, Hope
Publication
  • Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
Bridge Project (Dance company), contributor.
Description
xxi, 138 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
The NCCAkron Series in Dance
Uniform Title
NCCAkron Series in Dance.
Subject
  • Bridge Project (Dance company)
  • Dance > Social aspects
  • Performing arts > Social aspects
  • Arts > Finance > Social aspects
  • Decolonization in art
  • Dance
  • Performing arts
  • Arts > Finance
  • Arts
  • Social aspects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-133) and index.
Contents
Note on Engaging with this Book -- Dedication -- Note from NCCAkron -- Foreword: Curating Oneself Out of the Room -- Prologue: What Does It Mean to Have a Radical Body? -- Chapter 1: Curating as Community Organizing: What it Means and Why it Matters -- Chapter 2: Shifting Cultural Power through Transparency, Artist Power, and Distributed Leadership -- Transparency -- Artist Power -- Distributed Leadership -- Barriers to Change -- Chapter 3: Creating an Artist Commons -- Case Studies: Gathering around Questions -- Aesthetic Equity -- Reorganizing Ourselves -- Radical Movements: Gender and Politics in Performance -- Case Study: Supporting Refusal -- The Community Engagement Residency -- Refusing Pressures for Clarity and Urgency -- Refusing Pressures for Visibility -- Chapter 4: Inviting Difficult Conversations -- Case Study: Dancing Around Race -- Chapter 5: Facilitating Hybrid Forms -- Case Studies -- Paramodernities -- dance of darkness: a performance, a conversation, a rehearsal for the future -- Chapter 6: Expanding the Canon -- Case Studies -- Have We Come a Long Way, Baby? -- Ten Artists Respond to "Locus" -- Signals from the West: Bay Area Artists in Conversation with Merce Cunningham at 100 -- Chapter 7: Reckoning with Our Aesthetics -- Curatorial and Funding Practices: Troubling the Singular Standard -- Choreographic Practice: Summoning Poetic Nerve: A Body in the World -- A Dialogic Process -- Ethical Abstraction -- Decolonized Rigor -- Valuing Pause -- Conclusion -- Grounding Politics in the Body: Prompts for Studio Practice -- The Bridge Project 2010-2020: An Annotated Archive -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index of Artists Cited.
Call Number
*MGRZ 23-3844
ISBN
  • 9781629221175
  • 1629221171
LCCN
2021354831
OCLC
1247056913
Author
Mohr, Hope, author.
Title
Shifting cultural power : case studies and questions in performance / Hope Mohr with contributions from participants in The Bridge Project ; foreword by Micháele Steinwald.
Publisher
Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
The NCCAkron Series in Dance
NCCAkron Series in Dance.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-133) and index.
Added Author
Bridge Project (Dance company), contributor.
Other Form:
Electronic version: Mohr, Hope. Shifting cultural power. First edition. Akron, Ohio : University of Akron Press, 2021 9781629221182 (OCoLC)1262371094
Research Call Number
*MGRZ 23-3844
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