The Color of Theater Race, Culture and Contemporary Performance

by Uno, Roberta; Burns, Lucy Mae San Pablo

• ISBN13: 9780826478818
• ISBN10: 0826478816
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-12-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The Color of Theater presents a range of essays, interviews and performance texts that illustrate and examine the process, evolution and dynamics of making theater in the dawning moments of the 21st century. It brings together writings by artists, intellectuals and art activists exploring contemporary practices within multicultural, intercultural and ethnically specific theaters. This provocative and dynamic resource brings forth critical issues of cultural aesthetics engaging theatre as a crucial site for examining the intricate intersections of race, gender, class, sexuality and national and global politics. Contributors include Rustom Bharucha, Thulani Davis, Harry Elam, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Velina Hasu Huston, Cherríe Moraga, David Román, Sekou Sundiata, Diana Taylor, Una Chaudhuri, Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez and lê thi diem thúy.

Table of Contents

Notes on contributors	vii
Acknowledgments	xv
Part I: Introduction
The color of theater
Roberta Uno	3	(18)
Part II: Essays
1. Theater beyond borders: reconfiguring the artist's relationship to community in the twenty-first century moving beyond bantustans
Thulani Davis	21	(6)
2 Interculturalism and multiculturalism in an age of globalization: discriminations, discontents, and dialogue
Rustom Bharucha	27	(12)
3 Staging social memory: Yuyachkani
Diana Taylor	39	(22)
4 Re-imagining the stager tradition and transformation in Native theater
Jaye T. Darby	61	(22)
5 Notes from a cosmopolite
Velina Hasu Houston	83	(8)
6 Towards a new territory in 'multicultural' theater
Harry J. Elam, Jr.	91	(24)
7 Sour grapes: the art of anger in America
Cherrie Moraga	115	(20)
Part III: Interviews
8 'Some place to be somebody': La MaMa's Ellen Stewart
Alvin Eng	135	(10)
9 Uncovering and displaying our universes: Jesusa Rodriguez in/on Mexico
Roselyn Costantino	145	(14)
10 Gendering Chiapas: Petrona de la Cruz and Isabel J.F. Juárez Espinosa of La FOMMA (Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya/Strength of the Mayan Woman)
Harley Erdman	159	(12)
11 'Who's doing it now?': conversations with Brian Freeman on the politics of Black gay performance
Marlon M. Bailey	171	(24)
12 Something larger than ourselves: interview with Nobuko Miyamoto
Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns	195	(12)
13 Theater and activism: conversation with Chuck Mike
Awam Amkpa	207	(12)
14 Weaving a legacy: an interview with Muriel Miguel of the Spiderwoman Theater
Ann Haugo	219	(18)
15 Los Angeles intersections: Chay Yew
David Román	237	(18)
Part IV: Performance Texts
Quinceañera	255	(58)
16 Collaboration/celebration: introduction to Quinceañera
Joe Salvatore	257	(4)
17 Quinceañera
Alberto Antonio Araiza, Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Michael Marinez, and Danny Bolero Zaldivar	261	(42)
18 Quinceañera: a Latino queer and transcultural party for AIDS
Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez	303	(10)
the bodies between us	313	(32)
19 Meditations on the exilic condition: introduction to the bodies between us
Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns	315	(22)
A note on the bodies between us lê thi diem thúy	319	(4)
20 the bodies between us lê thi diem thúy	323	(14)
21 'look at my bones': theater as contact zone in the bodies between us
Una Chaudhuri	337	(8)
BORDERscape 2000	345	(38)
22 Pocha Nostra's apocalyptic landscape: introduction to BORDERscape 2000
Lisa Wolford	347	(1653)
A note on BORDERScape 2000
Guillermo Goméz-Peña	350	(1650)
23 BORDERscape	2000
Guillermo Goméz-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes	353	(22)
24 Audioscape 2000: the Pocha Nostra and the performance of sound
Josh D. Kun	375	(8)
Elijah	383	(42)
25 Elijah's journey: introduction to Elijah
Talvin Wilks	385	(4)
26 Elijah
Sekou Sundiata	389	(20)
27 Conversations with history: Sekou Sundiata, Craig Harris, and Elijah
Joni L. Jones	409	(12)
28 Afterword on Uclu, formerly Elijah
Sekou Sundiata	421	(4)
Selected bibliography	425