Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange Vectors of the Radical [Hardcover]

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays?explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde.Introduction; M.Sell PART I: INTERSECTIONS Introduction; J.Harding From Italy and Russia to France and the U.S.: 'Fascist' Futurism and Balanchine's 'American' Ballet; P.Gaborik & A.Harris Confessions of a Failed Theatre Activist: Intercultural Encounters in Uganda and Rwanda; L.Edmondson ? The Living Theatre's Arrested Development in Brazil: An Intersection of Activist Performances; C.Rosenthal PART II: TRANSLATIONS Introduction; J.Graham-Jones 'Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought': Anarchism and the Introduction of Modern Western Theatre to China; S.Liu Translation, Typography, and the Avant-Garde's Impossible Text; S.Bay-Cheng Maoist Performatives: Milton Acorn and the Canadian Liberation Movement; A.Filewod PART III: DIVERGENCES Introduction; A.Filewod ? Avant-Garde Becomes Nationalism: Immortalizing Nam June Paik in South Korea; E.Kim Lee The Avant-Garde and the Arab World; M.Sell The Avant-Garde of Necessity: The Protest Theatre Movement in Zimbabwe; P.Zenenga Punk Attitude: The Influence of the Avant-Garde and the Case of Ian Stuart Donaldson; G.White Afterword The Avant-Garde and Vector Studies: A Roundtable IndexLAURA EDMONDSON Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, USAALAN FILEWOD Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, CanadaPATRICIA GABORIK Independent Scholar, ItalyJEAN GRAHAM-JONES Professor of Theatre, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USAJAMES HARDING Professor of English, University of Mary Washington, USAANDREA HARRIS Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USAKIMBERLY JANNARONE Associate Professor of Theater Arts, University of California, Santalc%