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In her landmark study Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theatre, Jill Dolan departed from historical writings on utopia, which suggest that social reorganization and the redistribution of wealth are utopian efforts, to argue instead that utopia occurs in fragmentary "utopian moments," often found embedded within performance. While Dolan focused on the utopian performative within a theatrical context, this volume, edited by Rachel Bowditch and Pegge Vissicaro, expands her theories to encompass performance in public life--from diasporic hip-hop battles, Chilean military parades, commemorative processions, Blackfoot powwows, and post-Katrina Mardi Gras to the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, Festas Juninas in Brazil, the Renaissance Fairs in Arizona, and neoburlesque competitions. How do these performances rehearse and enact visions of a utopic world? What can the lens of utopia and dystopia illuminate about the potential of performing bodies to transform communities, identities, values, and beliefs across time? Performing Utopia not only answers these questions, but offers a diverse collection of case studies focusing on utopias, dystopias, and heterotopias enacted through the performing body.

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Book category Books in English The arts Theatre studies

• Full title: Performing Utopia
• Author: Rachel Bowdich, Pegge Vissicaro, Rachel Bowditch
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780857423863
• ISBN: 085742386X
• ID: 11555947
• Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
• Weight: 530 g
• Dimensions: 152 × 227 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. January 2018

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