The first volume to focus exclusively on lesbian performance work,
Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance draws on the
experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners
and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and
gender on performance. It examines essays, dialogues, and
performance texts from theater directors, performers, theorists,
playwrights, and performance writers against social and cultural
constructs and performance theories to produce a diverse and
challenging portrait of lesbian live performance art. The book's
penetrating scope covers drag queens, lesbian vampires,
representations of lesbian sex, solo artists, the art of
collaboration, lesbian aesthetics, and lesbian playwrights writing
straight and illustrates why live performance is one of the most
dynamic forums in which women can create, control, and produce
their work without artistic constraint.Acts of Passion explodes
binary definitions of gender and sexuality by destabilizing
familiar notions of the 'real'and creating new production values
and aesthetics in the process. The relationships between experience
and expression, sexuality and cultural placing, context and
artistic control, representation and self-representation become
clearer as the book discusses: the manner in which women are
represented as absent in the signifying system of patriarchal
society how questions of purity, 'authenticity,'and self-definition
complicate the field of representation the power of lesbian dance
performance to make the lesbian body culturally visible several
'new wave'performers--creating work, getting seen, showing flesh,
doing politics, and making money the projections, preconceptions,
expectations, and general baggage attached to the performing
lesbian body what the term 'lesbian playwright'means within
contemporary culture 'It's Queer Up North'--a British National Arts
Organization the arguments for and against mainstreaming lesbian
performanceAnyone interested in theater and performance, cultural
studies, gender issues, and the politics of 'positive
representation'--whether playwright, performer, director, writer,
academic, student, or theatre goer--will find Acts of Passion a
powerful step in wrenching the power of representation away from
the dominant culture. Defiant, saucy, sexy, and smart, the
contributors appropriate their own spaces, identities, crafts, and
languages, both within this book and without.
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