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Stages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces.
List 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
About the author
Amy Mihyang Ginther is an assistant professor in the Department of Performance, Play & Design at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
Summary
Stages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces.
