Performing migrancy and mobility in Africa
Subtitle: Cape of flows
By: edited by Mark Fleishman
Series: Studies in international performance
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781137379337
Subjects: Theater; History; Theater and society; PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism
Description: "Performing Migrancy and Mobility in Africa focuses on a body of performance work, the work of Magnet Theatre in particular but also work by other artists in Cape Town and other parts of the continent or the world, that engages with the Cape as a real or imagined node in a complex system of migration and mobility. Located at the foot of the African continent, lodged between two oceans at the intersection of many of the earth's major shipping lanes, Cape Town is a stage for a powerful mixing of cultures and peoples and has been an important node in a network of flows, circuits of movement and exchange. The performance works studied here attempt to get to grips with what it feels like to be on the move and in the spaces in-between that characterises the lives, now and for centuries before, of multiple peoples who move around and pass through places like the Cape. The contributors are a broad range of mostly African authors from various parts of the continent and as such the book offers an insight into new thinking and new approaches from an emerging and important location. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 217-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction; Mark Fleishman; title: 2. Dramaturgies of Displacement in the Magnet Theatre Migration Project; Mark Fleishman; title: 3. 'Peel the Wound'- Cape Town as Passage, Threshold, and Dead-End: Performing the Everyday Traumas of Mobility and Dislocation; Miki Flockemann; title: 4. Creating Communitas: The Theatre of Mandla Mbothwe; Mandla Mbothwe and Hazel Barnes; title: 5. Embodiment, Mobility and the Moment of Encounter in Jonathan Nkala's The Crossing; Samuel Ravengai; title: 6. (Re)-membering the Cape and the Performance of Belonging(s); Pedzisai Maedza; title: 7. Uhambo: Pieces of a Dream - Waiting in the Ambiguity of Liminality; Sara Matchett and Awino Okech; title: 8. Mobility, Migration and 'Migritude' in Afrocartography: Traces of Places and All Points in Between; Mwenya Kabwe; title: Mamma Africa: A Theatre of Inclusion, Hope(lessness) and Protest; Shannon Elizabeth Hughes; title: 9. On Familiar Roads: The Fluidity of Cape Coloured Experiences and Expressions of Migration and Reclamation in the Performances of the Kaapse Klopse in Cape Town; Amy Jephta; title: 10. Tall Horse, Tall Stories ; Jane Taylor; title: 11. Playtext: The Life and Work of Petrovic Petar; Sanjin Muftic; title: Works Cited; title: Index.