Remapping Performance Common Ground, Uncommon Partners

Completing a trilogy of works by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Remapping Performance focuses on the work of artists and experts who collaborate across fields to address social issues. The book explores work of a range of artists who employ artistic training, methodologies and mind-sets in their work with experts from other sectors such as medicine and healthcare and from other disciplines, to draw an expanded map of performance platforms including university/ community partnerships, neighbourhood-bases, and cultural diplomacy. Case studies include ArtSpot Productions/Mondo Bizarro's Cry You One about climate change in southern Louisiana, incorporating theatrics and organizing; Michael Rohd/Sojourn Theatre's social and civic practices; Anne Basting's University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee-based integration of performance and creative aging; and the collaborative cultural diplomacy experiment, smARTpower. Short companion pieces add expertise from Helen Nicholson, Todd London, Julie Thompson Klein, Nancy Cantor, Maria Rosario Jackson, and Penny Von Eschen. Jan Cohen-Cruz ends with suggestions for fully integrating performance in cross-sector initiatives. This latest book by a leading figure in engaged/ applied theatre and performance builds on its predecessors by offering a future-oriented perspective, a vision of art and performance interacting with a range of social sectors and with an emphasis on HE in such partnerships, and will be a 'must-read' for all students and scholars working in this field.

Jan Cohen-Cruz is a Professor of Drama at Syracuse University, USA. She edits Public: a Journal of Imagining America and her areas of practice and research are community-based theater, street performance, public scholarship and creative practice, and active culture. Her books include Local Acts, Engaging Performance, Radical Street Performance, and, co-edited with Mady Schutzman, Playing Boal and A Boal Companion.

PART I: GROUNDING
Introduction: A Vibrant Hybridity
'The Silence within the Noise: Reflections from the UK on 'A Vibrant Hybridity''
by Helen Nicholson
1. The Breadth of Theatrical Territory
'Remapping US Theater': Q & A with Todd London
2. Partnering
'From Multidisciplinarity to Boundary Work' by Julie Thompson Klein
PART II: PLATFORMS
3. Universities, Performance, and Uncommon Partnerships
Q & A with Chancellor Nancy Cantor
4. Art and Culture in Neighborhood Ecosystems
Q and A with Maria Rosario Jackson
5. Cultural Diplomacy and Collaboration
Q and A with Penny Von Eschen
Coda
6. The Future of Performance with Uncommon Partners
Notes
Bibliography
Index