Black Acting Methods

Critical Approaches

Sharrell Luckett, Tia M. Shaffer, Sharrell Luckett, Tia M. Shaffer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781317441212
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Kunst
• Subtopic: Amerikanische Kunst

Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with.

A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics, and interviews with key figures in Black American theatre illuminate their methods. This ground-breaking collection is an essential resource for teachers, students, actors and directors seeking to reclaim, reaffirm or even redefine the role and contributions of Black culture in theatre arts.

Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Index

Page numbers in italics denote tables.

!?Cinderella?! (TheaRadical) 10

#Being Black at University of Michigan 184

#Black Lives Matter 190, 193, 198

#BringBackOurGirls 195

7 Stages 22

a cappella performances 9, 41, 189; see also Neo-Spirituals

ableism 197

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Australia 12, 169–73, 170, 172, 175

Abrams, Abiola 162, 164

accountability 128

Ackamoor, Idris 53, 65, 71

Act Like You Know HHT course (Johnson) 185, 186–7, 195, 196

Actor’s Studio 73

actors: culturally relevant pedagogy 11, 13; as liberators 124–5; words of wisdom for from distinguished practitioners 213–18; see also Black actors

Actors Equity Association 93

Adkins, Keith Josef 129

Advanced Public Speaking for Social Justice class (Sicre) 194–5, 197

Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, The (Sears) 178–9

adversity tactics 130

affect, as a dimension of African American culture 6

affirmation 31

African American culture 6, 39, 177, 181; see also Hip Hop

African American performance techniques 44; see also “SoulWork”

African American Ritual Mode 209

African Americans: female prison population 54; terminology 4

African Company 92

African continuum 149, 184; see also Ritual Poetic Drama Within the African Continuum (RPD)

African dances, Dunham’s movement vocabulary for 174

African Religions and Philosophies (Mbiti) 103

African tribes 129

Africanization of King Lear (Shakespeare) 98–9

Africans, in ancient America 98

Afro-Cubans 214

Afrocentric analysis 129–30

Afrocentric cognition 124–7

Afrocentricity 3, 168, 169, 182; Asante’s d...