Acting Together I: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict
by Cynthia Cohen, Roberto Gutierrez Varea, Polly O. Walker

Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict explores performance as a social justice, conflict resolution, and peace-building tool in regions fractured by violence, dislocation, poverty, and oppression. Nine case studies from six continents shape a vocabulary for evaluating community, artist, and ritual-based performance, giving voice to silenced truths.

Performative genres of positive resistance and peace building include traditional and nontraditional theater, storytelling, nonviolent protest, vigil, skateboarding, martial arts, and hip hop and rap. Photos and vivid firsthand accounts expose performance's unique ability to bypass polemics, heal wounds, and engender a more peaceful future in Argentina, Peru, Serbia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Palestine, India, Australia, and the United States.

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Publisher: New Village Press

Released: 2011