Dancing Communities: Performance, Difference, and Connection in the Global City

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Staging International Feminisms: Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Bloody Aprons: Suzan-Lori Parks, Deborah Warner and Feminist Performance in the Age of Globalisation....Pages 9-22
Mind Yourself: On Soundwalking, Race and Gender....Pages 23-36
Globalising Neoliberalism, Travelling Feminisms: Pollesch@Prater....Pages 37-51
The Queer Globe Itself....Pages 52-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Actress Stories: Binodini and Amal Allana....Pages 67-75
Stockholm Interventions: Feminist Activist Performance....Pages 76-85
Women’s Writing for Performance Project: ‘Making’ a Feminist Intervention....Pages 86-94
Reconstructing a Diasporic Female Self in O Kyong-Sook’s Dictee — A Speaking Woman....Pages 95-103
Giving Back to Judith: Laura Curino’s Una stanza tutta per me/A Room of My Own....Pages 104-112
Anticipating Globalisation: Rosamond Gilder and the International Theatre Institute....Pages 113-120
Exile and the Elusive Qualities of Time....Pages 121-131
Cultural Memory in El Séptimo Cielo: An Intercultural Staging of Caryl Churchill’s Cloud Nine....Pages 132-139
Stretching Medea to Postmodern Sensibilities....Pages 140-150
A Journey towards Sensitisation and Empowerment: Feminist Performance and Intervention Theatre in the City of Jaipur....Pages 151-160
‘The Demon’s Nuns’: Petrona de la Cruz Cruz and Isabel Juárez Espinosa (Mexico)....Pages 161-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Reflection on the Work that is Being Done within FOMMA with Respect to Women, Gender and Patriarchy, Change, New Generations and New Technologies....Pages 171-173
MAKE SOMETHING: A Manifesto for Making Performance about Making Change....Pages 174-183
Pakistani Muslim Theatre at Home and Abroad: A Critical Manifesto for a Feminist Homecoming....Pages 184-193
Reflections on My Literary Performance Theatre: A Manifesto for Nigerian Women....Pages 194-202
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
A Manifesto for an Israeli She Monster....Pages 203-211
Feminist Performance and Utopia: A Manifesto....Pages 212-221
Back Matter....Pages 223-232