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"A valuable and timely collection." - Alan D. Filewod , author of
Committing Theatre Following the Final Report on Truth and
Reconciliation, Performing Turtle Island 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. "Brilliantly introduces pedagogies that
jump scale; a bundling project for future ancestors revealing
knowledges for flight into kinstillatory relationships." - Karyn
Recollet , co-author of In This Together: Blackness, Indigeneity,
and Hip Hop "An important resource for those who want to introduce
or incorporate Indigenous artistic perspectives in their course or
work." - Heather Davis-Fisch , author of Loss and Cultural Remains
in Performance "A very significant and welcome contribution to the
growing body of work on Indigenous theatre and performance in the
land now called Canada." - Ric Knowles , author of Performing the
Intercultural City
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.
"Sighting/Citing/Siting "is a broad contextualization of an
interdisciplinary, cross-cultural performance entitled
Crossfiring/Mama Wetotan. Produced by Knowhere Productions Inc. at
the Claybank Brick Plant National Historic Site (Saskatchewan,
Canada) in 2006, this site-specific event explored the significance
of the Dirt Hills to pre-contact aboriginal culture and to the
non-aboriginals who have proliferated there since the
mid-nineteenth century. The negotiation between practise and
theory, in particular the desire to privilege neither, is
represented in the book's design; its collection of critical
articles, full-colour catalogue, and DVD of artist interviews and
performances describe the interaction of a range of site-specific
practises focusing on collaboration and interdisciplinarity.
This book is pertinent to those interested in non-conventional
performance, site-specific practise, post-colonial history, labour
history, cultural geography, and eco-tourism--and to all who
understand the beauty of the Canadian prairies. DVD included.
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