Black Acting Methods
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Black Acting Methods

Critical Approaches

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eBook - ePub

Black Acting Methods

Critical Approaches

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9781138907638
eBook ISBN
9781317441212
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Performance Art

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...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of figures
  7. Notes on contributors
  8. Foreword: the Blessing
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction: the Affirmation
  11. Methods of social activism
  12. Methods of intervention
  13. Methods of cultural plurality
  14. Reflections from distinguished practitioners
  15. Appendix: recommendations for acting/performance programs that seek to provide equitable training
  16. Index

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