Год выпуска: 2013 Автор: Mark James Hamilton Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 316 ISBN: 9783659346606
Описание
This book examines two dance theatre productions created for international touring: Mika HAKA (NZ); The Sound of Silence (India). The companies, Torotoro & Samudra, make dance from their hereditary martial arts – expressive disciplines involving practitioners in displays of prowess that are always spectacles contiguous with dance. The productions examined also use movement practices in global circulation, & are often presented before predominantly white audiences. They are generically unstable works – the product of cultural interactions in which contradictory agendas converge. The productions propagate images of idealised men that create statements of national & cultural identity. They are implicated in the performative construction of gender, ethnicity & race. Torotoro & Samudra’s performances, influenced by queer-feminist agendas, offer insights into martial dance theatre’s potential contribution to the intercultural negotiation of identities. European theatre practitioners have...
