Ethnicity and Identity : Global Performance
Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Trans-action, encounter and traditional space: 1. Revisiting ancient tradition: the modern Laban/Bartenieff system as applied in practice to Indian classical dance/Ciane Fernandes. 2. The soul of the story: Blending Hart, Bogart and Suzuki in a curricular shift for the globalized American actor/Diane Smith-Sadak. 3. Creating the cognitive space of the character/Erik Rynell. 4. Theatresports and live performance in contemporary western culture/Matthijs Engelberts. 5. Understanding understanding: phenomenological hermeneutics in Thomas Lehmen's clever/Nigel Stewart. 6. I saw it with my own eyes: the power of messenger reports and Teichoscopies on stage/Peter G.F. Eversmann. 7. Ballet Frankfurt and the re-branding of Frankfurt's changing identity/Robyn Marie Campbell. II. Political polarities and identity formation: 8. Reclaiming cultural identity: the upsurge of 'coloured' theatre in South Africa since 1990/Bett Pacey. 9. Faking truth: the 'problem' of 'theatricality'/Glen McGillivray. 10. Materialism, intellectualism and the dialectics of The Oriki of a Grasshopper/John Warrick. 11. Post-operatic encounters with history/Nicholas Till. 12. Intimate interactions: spatializing a postmodern sociology of theatre/Rebecca Caines. 13. Surviving the monoculture: land, language, identity corpses, Zombies or life after McDonald's/Tim Prentki. 14. Ethnic symbolism in the plays of Wole Soyinka/Vibha Sharma. III. Ethnic issues and challenges: 15. Ethnicity and style in productions at the Royal Court Theatre, London, 1956-1966/Amelia Howekritzer. 16. Cultural memory and ethnic surrogation in sleep deprivation chamber/Elizabeth Bonjean. 17. Un-presented reality: on self-identification of the polish society in drama after 1989/Ewa Wachocka. 18. An echo of phenomenological reflection in the analysis of the Butoh Bodily states/Jelena Rajak. 19. The Fadime Sahindal Story: honour killings as "death by culture" in Sweden 2002/Tiina Rosenberg. 20. A Bizarre entrance of the ethnic other/Yael Feiler. IV. Ethnic roots and cultural confrontation: 21. Performance, context, power and transformation: a study based on two performances in Kerala/B. Ananthakrishnan. 22. Writing back from the empire: Indian images on the English stage/Christopher Innes. 23. Fritz Benewitz in India: a Co-operative Research Project/David G. John. 24. Bombay dreams: commodity production/David Whitton. 25. Indra: "The Drinker of Soma" and his role in Indian theatre/Elzabieta Koldrzak. 26. Image of the string puppet: female sacrifice and the case of Queen Padmini of Chittor/Poh Sim Plowright. 27. Re-dressing Shakespeare: ethnic identity and costume in Indian performances of Shakespeare/Poonam Trivedi. 28. Towards a multicultural theatre: the changing audience for contemporary Indian drama in English/Radha Ramaswamy. 29. Identity crisis in multicultural society: the case of Parsi Theatre/Ranbir Sinh. 30. Subaltern theatre: parallels in Jewish and Bengali theatres/Seth L. Wolitz. V. Subjugation of identities and ethnic icons: 31. Tehrik-e-Niswan: theatre of identity/Asma Mundrawala. 32. Emptying the sea by the bucketful: a difficult phase in Cambodian Theatre or the creation of a culture of dependency/Catherine Diamond. 33. Performing Taiwan: The Taipei Theatre in New York and cultural propaganda/Chai-Hsin Chou. 34. A breathing space where anything can happen...: travelling theatre in Japan, China, India and Bangladesh in a contextual perspective/Christina Nygren. 35. Modernity vs. tradition: a case study of Wu Hsing-Kuo's stage presentation/Li, Ruru. 36. Wayang Kulit as contact zone: tradition in global flux/Matthew Issac Cohen. 37. Okinawan drama: its ethnicity and identity under assimilation to Japan/Shoko Yonaha.
"The major issues in cultural practice today include identity crisis, creation of a new national culture, conflicts derived from regional imbalance in economic development and power sharing, fear of erosion of indigenous values and problems of morals and cultures in the waves of cyber streams and globalization. However, these issues, are invariably related to the key issues of cultural identity and ethnicity. The identity that defines the sense of nation, community and ethnic roots is generally linked to the politics of nationalism, national integration and political contests.
The purpose of the texts included in this book is to highlight these points and treat the intercultural phenomenon carefully, to reflect on what it implies on social, political as well as aesthetic levels." (jacket)
