Title:
Performing Indigeneity
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
Toronto : Playwrights Canada Press, 2016.
©2016
Physical Description:
vii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781770915374
Abstract:
"This volume of newly commissioned essays about Indigenous performance is the first in which all of the contributors are Indigenous artists or academics. Scholars were invited to write essays on some aspect of Indigenous performance and artists were asked to contribute statements on whatever they felt was important to them as theatre creators. As with any good assembly of like-minded members, themes and observations emerged, dovetailing and echoing each other, touching on theatre training, cultural identity, Indigenous theatre history, and claiming space, among others. A companion to the existing two-volume anthology Staging Coyote's Dream, the authors gathered here--identifying as Cree, Mohawk, Creek, Ntlakapamux, Stó:lō, and many other nations--open a conversation, inviting more voices to join in illuminating the history of Indigenous performance in Canada and blazing a trail forward."--Publisher's website.
Contents:
General editor's preface / by Ric Knowles -- Acknowledgments -- Fyrst, an introduction / by Yvette Nolan -- Welcoming sovereignty / by Dylan Robinson -- Sovereign proclamations of the twenty-first century : scripting survivance through the language of soft power / by Jill Carter -- Kippmoojikewin : the things we carry with us / by Marrie Mumford -- The search for spiritual transformation in contemporary theatre practice / by Jani Lauzon -- On the trail of Native theatre / by Carol Greyeyes -- Saints and strangers : a rapprochement for Indigenous performance / by Michael Greyeyes -- Arthome / by Tara Beagan -- Thanksgiving / by Falen Johnson -- Bringing forth the sacred, speaking for the spirits : a brief braid / by Andréa Ledding -- Spine of the mother : moving mountains...creating dance / by Starr Muranko -- A comedic history of Aboriginal proportions / by Drew Hayden Taylor -- Native Earth Performing Art's Death of a chief : unearthing Shakespeare's Julius Caesar / by Jason Woodman Simmonds -- "That's who the stories are about" : Cree ways of knowing in Kent Monkman's Miss chief : justice of the piece / by June Schudeler -- (Re)animating the (un)dead / by Michelle La Flamme -- Tricksters and creatures and ghosts, ho-lee! intimations/imitations of the sacred / by Daniel David Moses -- #Myreconciliationincludes...just dance / by David Geary -- She begins to move / by Michelle Olson -- Works cited -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
Language:
English
