Description
Book SynopsisStages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces.
This book provokes embodied and intellectual discomfort for the reader to take risks with their ideologies, identities, and practices and to make new pedagogical choices for students with racialized identities. Centering the voices of actor trainers of color to acknowledge their personal experience and professional pedagogy as theory, this volume illuminates actionable ideas for text work, casting, voice, consent practices, and movement while offering decolonial approaches to current Eurocentric methods. These offerings invite the reader to create spaces where students can bring more of themselves, their communities, and their stories into their training and as fodder for performance making that will lead to a more just world.
This book is for people in high/secondary schools, higher education, and private training studios who wish to teach
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword: navigating liberation: a conversation between friends
Nicole Brewer and Walton Wilson
Introduction: why this book now?
Amy Mihyang Ginther
PART I
Distilling/grounding/performing identities
1 Black queer autoethnographies: tools for equitable teaching and learning in predominantly white institutions
Gregory King
2 Societal othering of Asian Americans and its perpetuation through casting
Joy Lanceta Coronel
3 Embodying racial consciousness: white allyship as given circumstance and objective for the casting and coaching of scenework
Rachel E. Blackburn
PART II
Embodying disruption/abstention/resistance
4 I’mma do me: code-switch resistance as collective liberation in voice and speech classes
Alicia Richardson
5 The erotic of abstinence: refusing the white-possessive and embracing settler abstinence in performance pedagogy
Maria Teresa Houar
6 Nepantla: lingering in-between to embody our voice
Sayda Trujillo
PART III
Traveling across time/space/language
7 Representation matters: the why and how of decolonizing Stanislavski actor training
Alison Nicole Vasquez
8 Empowering the somatically othered actor through multilingual improvisation in training
Kristine Landon-Smith and Chris Hay
9 The possibilities of paradox: decolonial Shakespeare process in practice
Amy Mihyang Ginther
PART IV
Transforming across/through/around disciplinarity
10 A time of protest: exploring activism and acting through Hip-Hop Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed
Daphnie Sicre
11 Whose body is dis: taksu, ase, Black queer intersections, and the awakening of the actor’s spiritual practice
Budi Miller
12 Stigmata: biography of an Arab female body in pain
Maiada Aboud
Afterword: morning rain, parting clouds, and what is to come
Amy Mihyang Ginther and Celia Mercedes Espinosa
Index
