Performing the Nonhuman - Towards a Theatre of Transformation

This book radically reimagines theatre/performance pedagogy and dramaturgy in response to the accelerating climate crisis.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Embracing Eco-theatre and Its Pedagogy
Chapter 1: Theorizing the Nonhuman/Posthuman
Chapter 2: The Master and His Emissary
Chapter 3: Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being
Chapter 4: Performing in Response to the Nonhuman
Chapter 5: Grotowski Recalled and Reconsidered
Chapter 6: Theatre and/as Ritual
Chapter 7: Mineral, Vegetable, Animal
Coda: A Theatre of Healing and Resilience
Work cited
Index

About the author

Conrad Alexandrowicz is a Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.

Summary

This book radically reimagines theatre/performance pedagogy and dramaturgy in response to the accelerating climate crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Conrad Alexandrowicz
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032547503
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3254750-3
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, ART / Performance, Theatre Studies, Performance Art, theatre;transformation