American Indian performing arts
Subtitle: critical directions
By: edited by Hanay Geiogamah and Jaye T. Darby
Contributors: University of California, Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center
Series: Native American performance and critical studies series -- 6; Native American performance and critical studies series -- 6.
Publisher: UCLA American Indian Studies Center
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Los Angeles, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780935626629; 9780935626636
Subjects: Indian theater; Indian dance; Indian arts; Indians in the performing arts
Description: "[The] essays in this new volume on Native performing arts bring much deserved critical attention to a fabulous and diverse group of Native performers and performances. The scope is exciting, both in what the essays focus on -- contemporary Native plays, an early 20th century Sun Dance opera, punk rock band musicians, turn-of-the-century jazz bands, contemporary modern dance -- and also in the issues the authors raise and consider. These include ways of acknowledging the spiritual power of Native performance in contemporary settings, as well as tendencies to exotify; the power of performance to transform, and the difference between this and concepts of theatricality as mimesis; tribally specific rhetorics for reading and staging works previously filtered through other frames; appropriation and encroachment, codes of conduct in Native theater production, and the possibilities of Native/non-Native collaboration. Discussion of some commonalities that many Native performances share weave throughout, such as the close interconnections among place, time, memory and language; Indigenous cosmologies; ancestral connections; incisive political critique; sly and wry humor"--Pub. info.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments / Hanay Geiogamah, Jaye T. Darby; title: Introduction / Jace Weaver.; title: Contemporary performances. The Te Ata world premiere : creations from a Native play / Christy Stanlake; title: Web/sites : Tomson Highway's and James Luna's remappings of space and time / Birgit Däwes; title: Into the sacred circle : homecomings in Native women's contemporary performance / Jaye T. Darby; title: Those long lonely nights at the diner : specificity of place, community, and home in Arigon Starr's The red road / Carolyn Dunn; title: Ritual and its deeper rhythms in ceremonial performance / Hanay Geiogamah; title: Two worlds on stage : working in collaboration to prevent encroachment, appropriation, and other maddening forms of imperialism / Margo Lukens and William S. Yellow Robe, Jr.; title: "How shall we honor them?" : empowerment and resistance in Blackfire's performative praxis / Jeff Berglund.; title: Historical stagings.  Zitkala-Ša's opera : staging strategies for American Indian survival in the early twentieth century / Katherine Young Evans; title: Ha'nts : the Booger dance rhetorics of Lynn Riggs's The Cherokee night / Qwo-Li Driskill; title: Performing Indianess and excellence : Nez Perce jazz bands of the twentieth century / Janis (Jan) Johnson; title: Dancing in four directions : the teaching/choreography/performance of Rosalie Jones in the Contact zone / Julie Pearson-Little Thunder; title: "We are not guilty!" : the creation of an Indigenous theatrical praxis / Courtney Elkin Mohler; title: About the contributors.