Performing Turtle Island

Indigenous Theatre on the World Stage

Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber, Kathleen Irwin, Moira J. Day (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2019
University of Regina Press (Verlag)
978-0-88977-676-0 (ISBN)

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This anthology places Indigenous performance in dialogue with other nations, both on the shores of Turtle Island and on the world stage.

This book investigates theatre as a tool for community engagement, education, and resistance. Understanding Indigenous cultures as critical sources of knowledge and meaning, each essay addresses issues that remind us that the way to reconciliation between Canadians and Indigenous peoples is neither straightforward nor easily achieved. Comprised of multidisciplinary and diverse perspectives, Performing Turtle Island considers performance as both a means to self-empowerment and self-determination, and a way of placing Indigenous performance in dialogue with other nations, both on the lands of Turtle Island and on the world stage.

Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber is from oskana kâ-asastêki and is an associate professor of Indigenous literatures at First Nations University of Canada in Regina. He is the editor of kisiskâciwan: Indigenous Voices from Where the River Flows Swiftly and the writer and producer of the Making Treaty 4 performance project. Kathleen Irwin is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research in the Faculty of Media, Art, and Performance at the University of Regina. Moira J. Day is a professor of drama at the University of Saskatchewan, where she also serves as an adjunct member of Women's and Gender Studies, and the Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Unit. She lives in Edmonton.

Introduction: Perspectives on Current Practice
by Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber, Kathleen Irwin, Moira J. Day

PART I: CRITICAL SELF-REPRESENTATION IN PRODUCTION AND TRAINING
1. Stranger in a Strange Land: Views from an Indigenous Lens
by Michael Greyeyes
2. Making a Movie: How to Carry an Elephant up a Mountain
by Armand Garnet Ruffo
3. Decolonizing Counterpoints: Indigenous Perspectives and Representations in Classical Music and Opera
by Spy Dénommé-Welch and Catherine Magowan
4. Making Our Own Bundle: Philosophical Reflections on Indigenous Theatre Education
by Carol Greyeyes
5. Conversation with Daniel David Moses, August 2016
by Annie Smith and Daniel David Moses

PART II: PERFORMANCE IN DIALOGUE WITH THE TEXT
6. Performing the Bingo Game in Tomson Highway’s The Rez Sisters
by Jesse Rae Archibald-Barber
7. A Prayer for Rita Joe
by Yvette Nolan
8. Cradling Space: Towards an Indigenous Dramaturgy on Turtle Island
by Dione Joseph
9. Standing with Sky Woman: A Conversation on Cultural Fluency
by Kahente Horn-Miller
10. Resurgence, Recognition, and Remaining Settled Through Changes at UpFront ’91
by Megan Davies

CODA: THE DREAM OF AN IMPOSSIBLE THEATRE 11. Red People, Red Magic
by Floyd P. Favel

Acknowledgements
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.10.2019
Zusatzinfo	1 Tables, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Regina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 229 mm
Gewicht	560 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-88977-676-8 / 0889776768
ISBN-13	978-0-88977-676-0 / 9780889776760
Zustand	Neuware