On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man (Enactments) - Hardcover

Bowditch, Rachel

 
9781906497255: On the Edge of Utopia: Performance and Ritual at Burning Man (Enactments)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1906497257 ISBN 13: 9781906497255
Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

During the week before Labor Day every year, 35,000 people gather in Nevada&;s Black Rock Desert and build Black Rock City. At the center of Black Rock City is a 40-foot wooden effigy of a man, an icon around which art, performance, and community revolve. Since 1986, the Burning Man Festival named for this effigy has evolved from founder Larry Harvey&;s personal healing ritual into a cultural movement where ceremony, religion, visual art, and performance converge on an epic scale.

In On the Edge of Utopia, Rachel Bowditch&; performer, theatre director, scholar, and Burning Man participant&;explores the spectrum of performance and ritual practices within Black Rock City from the everyday to wild spectacle, the profane to the sublime. Bowditch argues that Burning Man can be understood as a contemporary galaxy of happenings, a revival of the ancient Roman Saturnalia, a site for rehearsals of utopia, and a secular pilgrimage. As Burning Man continues to grow, it will create new paradigms for performance, installation art, community, and invented rituals that bridge ancient traditions to the twenty-first century.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Rachel Bowditch is Assistant Professor at Arizona State University in the School of Theatre and Film. She is Artistic Associate of Schechner&;s East Coast Artist Exchange and Associate of RoseLee Goldberg&;s Performa.



Rachel Bowditch is a performer, theatre director, performance studies scholar and an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University in the School of Theatre and Film. She has presented her research at national and international conferences in Singapore, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil and London. Her directorial work has been seen in American Theatre (January 2009) and Live Design (October 2008) for her innovative use of multimedia.

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Verlag
Seagull Books London Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1906497257
ISBN 13 
9781906497255
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
365
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