Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange Vectors of the Radical

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of #x1C;vectors of the radical#x1D; 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.

Mike Sell is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA, where he teaches modern world drama, performance studies, the Black Arts Movement, and the avant-garde. He is author of Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism (2005) and The Avant-Garde: Race Religion War (forthcoming). He is editor of Ed Bullins: Twelve Plays and Selected Writings (2006).

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
Index