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Full Description
In Exercises for Rebel Artists, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes use their extensive teaching and performance experience with La Pocha Nostra to help students and practitioners to create 'border art'.
Designed to take readers right into the heart of radical performance, the authors use a series of crucial practical exercises, honed in workshops worldwide, to help create challenging theatre which transcends the boundaries of nation, gender, and racial identity.
The book features:
Detailed exercises for using Pocha Nostra methods in workshops
Inspirational approaches for anyone creating, producing or teaching radical performance
A step-by-step guide for large-scale group performance
New, unpublished photos of the Pocha Nostra method in practice
Exercises for Rebel Artists advocates teaching as an important form of activism and as an extension of the performance aesthetic. It is an essential text for anyone who wants to learn how use performance to both challenge and change.
Contents
Intro by Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Aims and Objectives. Preparing a Performance Workshop. Notes to the Workshop Participants. The Workshop. Performance Exercises, Rituals and Games To Cross Borders. Part One: 'Hands On', Physical and Perceptual Exercises. Part Two: Conceptual and Poetic Exercises. Part Three: Living Images and Exercises to Generate Performance Material. Part Four: Designing and Fleshing Out Performance Personas. Part Five: Preparing a Performance Salon. The Syllabus. Quick and Dirty Exercises. In Permanent Process Of Reinvention: A Pedagogical Travelogue. Tips for Young Live Artists. Letter from Oaxaca.
