Stages of Reckoning

Antiracist and Decolonial Actor Training
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-22543-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: Routledge Series in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Theatre and Performance

Stages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces.

This book provokes embodied and intellectual discomfort for the reader to take risks with their ideologies, identities, and practices and to make new pedagogical choices for students with racialized identities. Centering the voices of actor trainers of color to acknowledge their personal experience and professional pedagogy as theory, this volume illuminates actionable ideas for text work, casting, voice, consent practices, and movement while offering decolonial approaches to current Eurocentric methods. These offerings invite the reader to create spaces where students can bring more of themselves, their communities, and their stories into their training and as fodder for performance making that will lead to a more just world.

This book is for people in high/secondary schools, higher education, and private training studios who wish to teach and direct actors of color in ways that more fully honor their multiple identities.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mihyang Ginther, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Schauspieltechnik, Theaterpädagogik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theaterregie, Theaterproduktion

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword: navigating liberation: a conversation between friends

Nicole Brewer and Walton Wilson

Introduction: why this book now?

Amy Mihyang Ginther

PART I

Distilling/grounding/performing identities

1 Black queer autoethnographies: tools for equitable teaching and learning in predominantly white institutions

Gregory King

2 Societal othering of Asian Americans and its perpetuation through casting

Joy Lanceta Coronel

3 Embodying racial consciousness: white allyship as given circumstance and objective for the casting and coaching of scenework

Rachel E. Blackburn



PART II

Embodying disruption/abstention/resistance

4 I’mma do me: code-switch resistance as collective liberation in voice and speech classes

Alicia Richardson

5 The erotic of abstinence: refusing the white-possessive and embracing settler abstinence in performance pedagogy

Maria Teresa Houar

6 Nepantla: lingering in-between to embody our voice

Sayda Trujillo



PART III

Traveling across time/space/language

7 Representation matters: the why and how of decolonizing Stanislavski actor training

Alison Nicole Vasquez

8 Empowering the somatically othered actor through multilingual improvisation in training

Kristine Landon-Smith and Chris Hay

9 The possibilities of paradox: decolonial Shakespeare process in practice

Amy Mihyang Ginther



PART IV

Transforming across/through/around disciplinarity

10 A time of protest: exploring activism and acting through Hip-Hop Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed

Daphnie Sicre

11 Whose body is dis: taksu, ase, Black queer intersections, and the awakening of the actor’s spiritual practice

Budi Miller

12 Stigmata: biography of an Arab female body in pain

Maiada Aboud

Afterword: morning rain, parting clouds, and what is to come

Amy Mihyang Ginther and Celia Mercedes Espinosa

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amy Mihyang Ginther is an assistant professor in the Department of Performance, Play & Design at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.