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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780976605447 03 01 New Village Press 01 GCOI 97660100011050 02 0976605449 03 9780976605447 15 9780976605447 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textcase="02">Performing Communities</TitleText> <Subtitle textcase="02">Grassroots Ensemble Theaters Deeply Rooted in Eight U.S. Communities</Subtitle> 1 A01 Kilkelly, Ann Ann Kilkelly Ann Kilkelly is a professor of performance studies in the Department of Theatre Arts and in the Women's Studies Program in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech. She is recognized nationally as a scholar and performer of jazz-tap dancing and history, performance studies, and interactive performance techniques. She has received Smithsonian Senior Fellowships and a National Endowment for the Humanities Collaborative Research Grant, and performs and gives master classes in jazz tap around the country. At Virginia Tech, she served as the director of women's studies for six years. Kilkelly continues to teach and direct multimedia performance concerts at Virginia Tech, and recently created the Diversity Training Laboratory to help students and faculty use performance techniques to examine diversity issues. Kilkelly also served as a site visitor for Roadside Theater for Performing Communities. 2 A01 Leonard, Robert H. Robert H. Leonard Robert H. Leonard is a professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at Virginia Tech where he directs the master of fine arts program in directing and public dialogue. He brings thirty years of experience as the founding artistic director of the Road Company, a nationally recognized theater ensemble (1972-1998) based in Johnson City, Tennessee, which created and produced two dozen original plays reflecting the history and issues of the Upper Tennessee Valley and Central Appalachia. Leonard served as a site visitor for WagonBurner Theater Troop, and currently serves as a member of the national board of Theatre Communications Group. 3 A24 Cohen-Cruz, Jan Jan Cohen-Cruz Jan Cohen-Cruz is a scholar and practitioner of activist and community-based performance. She is currently director of Imagining America, a national consortium of colleges and universities working to strengthen democratic public participation in the humanities, arts, and design. Cohen-Cruz is also a professor at Syracuse University, where Imagining America is housed. Most recently, she was a professor in theDrama Department at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she directed the Office of Community Connections. She participated in the founding of the Center for Art and Public Policy at NYU and has taught and/or directed in prisons, colleges, psychiatric facilities, migrant camps, theatres, schools, senior centers, and parks. Grounded in the resistant theatre of the late 1960s and early 1970s, she was a member of the NYC Street Theatre/Jonah Project, and has been a freelance practitioner of the techniques of Augusto Boal since bringing him to the US in 1989. Eclectic in her application of the arts to social situations, she is also versed in techniques grounded in storytelling and in the adaptation of existing texts. From 1995 to 1997, she codirected the Tisch School of the Arts' AmeriCorps project, focusing on violence reduction through the arts. Cohen-Cruz coedited Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism (1994) and A Boal Companion: Dialogues on Theatre and Cultural Politics (2006), with Mady Schutzman; edited Radical Street Performance: An International Anthology (1998); and wrote Local Acts: Community-Based Performance in the United States (2005) and Engaging Performance: Theatre as Call and Response (2010). Her essays have appeared in numerous national publications. 4 B01 Burnham, Linda Frye Linda Frye Burnham Linda Frye Burnham is a writer of national reputation on a variety of subjects, with special emphasis in artists working in community, education and activism. She has also written extensively on performance art and feminism and multiculturalism in the arts. She was the founder of High Performance magazine (1978), The 18th St. Arts Complex (with Susanna Dakin, 1988), Highways Performance Space (with Tim Miller, 1989), Art in the Public Interest (with Steven Durland, 1995) and the Community Arts Network (with Durland, Bob Leonard and Ann Kilkelly, 1999). She is the editor of APInews on the Community Arts Network, a contributing writer for national arts publications, a writer on general subjects for The Independent Weekly of North Carolina, editor (with Durland) of The Citizen Artist: 20 Years of Art in the Public Arena: An Anthology from High Performance Magazine 1978-1998 (1998), and author of Bob & Bob: The First Five Years, 1975-1980 (1980). She has served as contributing editor to the Drama Review and staff writer for Artforum. Her writing has appeared in numerous art magazines in the US and UK. 01 eng 240 00 240 03 12 25 PER011000 10 ART060000 10 POL034000 20 citizen artist;commons;community arts;community building;cultural development;cultural studies;dance;democracy;diversity;ensemble theater;healing arts;human rights;interdisciplinary arts;music;neighborhood;participatory;performing arts;poetry;political activism;political art;reconciliation;restorative arts;social activism;social change;social justice;storytelling;theater 24 Internet Arts 24 Internet Community Building 24 Internet Social Justice 01 Ensemble theater is one of the hottest, most engaging American performance forms today. It's more than art — it's a movement. Performing Communities is an inquiry into a genre of theater that arises from and empowers the grassroots. The book profiles established ensemble groups from inner-city Los Angeles, small-town northern California, African-American South, multicultural southern Texas, low-income central Appalachia, economically struggling South Bronx New York, and cross-continental Native America. This compendium of critical writing about the role these theaters play in building community shows how these artist groups are forged by working in and with their communities over time. Ensemble theater is discovered to be neither alternative nor marginalized, but vanguard, a natural evolution of the movement that propelled regional theater "away from the commercial restraints of New York and toward a theater expressive of the rich diversity of American culture." It is theater that is politically and emotionally charged. It can be cathartic, healing, and has a proven ability to effect social change. The book Performing Communities is a project of the Community Arts Network. It has been created from interviews, analytical essays, and play excerpts from the "Grassroots Theater Ensemble Research Project," an inquiry into American ensemble theaters that have been working in communities for 10 to 35 years. Although originating from a scholarly report, the language has been edited for a popular audience and offers an intimate glimpse into each local ensemble community. The book will appeal to followers of contemporary and popular theater, social change activists, community building specialists, and a public curious about cultural development in the United States. 02 Ensemble theater is one of the most vibrant, meaningful American performance forms today. It's more than art — it's a social movement. 04 Acknowledgement Editor's Preface by Linda Frye Burnham Introduction: The Ecology of Theater-in-Community by Jan Cohen-Cruz Findings: Knowing the Secrets Behind the Laughter by Robert H. Leonard and Ann Kilkelly Eight Grassroots Ensemble Theaters: 1. Carpetbag Theater Company: Cheerleader for the Revolution 2. Cornerstone Theater Company: Love and Respect at Work in the Creative Process 3. The Dell'Arte Company: Damn Good Theater -- What It Is and How to Get It in Blue Lake, California 4. Jump-Start Performance Co.: Magic Glue -- The Politics and Personality of Jump-Start 5. Los Angeles Poverty Department: Theater as an Act of Citizenship 6. Teatro Pregones: The Twin Rigors of Art and Community, or Not the People Who Said Green 7. Roadside Theater: Little Epiphanies 8. 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