Utopia in Performance: Finding Hope at the Theater

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Index 225 Abrams, Josh, 140 affect, in performance, 65–66, 111, 130, 134, 149, 168–71 See also feelings; utopian performative Alfaro, Louis, 42 alienation effect. See Brecht, Bertolt American Dance Festival, 143 Anderson, Laurie, 18, 43 Angels in America (Kushner), 99, 125 Animals (Ann Carlson), 143 anti-Semitism, 4 See also Judaism Arabian Nights (Zimmerman), 151 Artaud, Antonin, 1, 149 See also Theater of Cruelty Atkins, Tom, 11–12 audience(s) and affect, 10, 27 citizenship and civic engagement, models of, 26, 28, 92, 101, 162 constructions of, 36, 94–112 gay and lesbian, 45–46, 62 See also queer audiences; queer identi‹cation; queer performance ; queer theory and practice geographies of, 16, 28, 116–37 participation, 54, 101–12, 131, 146–50 presence, importance of, 96–97 public feeling, formation of, 19 reception, 132–37 See also desire; performance; public(s); spectatorship Auslander, Philip, 40, 51 Austin, J. L., 5 See also utopian performative Austin Theater Alliance. See theaters, geography of authenticity in performance, 83, 102, 114 See also Def Poetry Jam; monopolylogues ; slam poetry “Auto-Archive,” 14 See also Theater Journal Baby boomers, 46 Baley, Shannon, 102 Ballet Trockaderos, 43 Bammer, Angelika, 6–7, 13 Bauman, Richard, 1 Beauty and the Beast (Margolin), 56 Becker, Carol, 154, 156 Bellamy, Edward. See utopia, de‹nitions of Benhabib, Seyla, 63 Benjamin, Walter, 60, 136, 142, 151 See also time, Einstein‘s theories of Bentley, Eric, 27 Berlant, Lauren, 100, 133 Bharucha, Rustom, 38 Black Ice, 102 See also Def Poetry Jam Blanket (Ann Carlson), 2, 20, 25, 29, 31, 32, 154, 162 American history evoked by, 145–46 soundscape, 144–50 staging of, 142–50 See also “Fresh Terrain” Blau, Herb, 41 Bloch, Ernst, 7–8, 89, 97–98, 103, 131, 141, 147, 165, 168 “anticipatory illumination,” 8, 104 “militant optimism,” 98, 139–65 See also Marxism, philosophy of; utopia; utopian performative Boal, Augusto, 7 Bogart, Anne, 39 bobrauschenbergamerica, 8 Bogosian, Eric, 67 See also monopolylogues, history of Bourdieu, Pierre, 24, 91 Bowling Alone (Putnam), 96 Brecht, Bertolt, 7, 161 alienation effect, 69, 104 Brechtian strategies, 116, 121, 127, 130, 132, 156 See also gestus Broadway musicals: Cats, 104; Jesus Christ Superstar , 15–16, 18–19; The Lion King, 17; Mamma Mia, 15; Les Miserables , 104; The Phantom of the Opera, 15; The Producers, 17, 43 racial politics of, 104–5 touring productions of, 15–16, 43 Brustein, Robert, 159 Buber, Martin, “fantasy pictures,” 111, 141, 163 Butler, Samuel. See utopia, de‹nitions of Cadenhead, MacKenzie, “phantom note,” 17–18 Cameron, Ben, 26–27, 79, 97 Carlson, Ann, 2, 25, 29, 31, 32, 142–50, 154, 155, 161, 164 Animals, 143 everyday life, choreography of, 142–50 Real People, 142 White, 143 See also Blanket; solo performance; time, simultaneity in performance Carlson, Marvin, 5, 14, 42 Carr, Tessa, 123–24 catharsis, 123, 151 See also Laramie Project, The; Metamorphoses Case, Sue-Ellen, 135–36 Chaikin, Joseph, 6 charisma, of performers, 52, 54, 77, 92 Chaudhuri, Una, 2 Chautauqua, 67 Chief, The, 11–12 Chin, Staceyann, 100–101 See also Def Poetry Jam Cho, Margaret, 43 citizen-scholar-artist, 36, 169 civic engagement. See audience(s), citizenship and civic engagement, models of; performance, citizenship and civic engagement, models of Clit Notes (Holly Hughes), 47 Cocteau, Jacques, 35 Coleman, Steve, 108 See also Def Poetry Jam communitas, 11, 12, 14, 21, 23, 26, 31, 55, 62, 73, 81, 133, 168–70 community, 2, 10–12, 134 attentive, model of, 110 civic, 105–6 constructions of, 23, 44, 111, 129, 133 dialogue between, 85 formation via performance, 68–88, 95, 99 gay, 163 rural/urban, 113–37 See also performance community-based theater, 115 Conquergood, Dwight, 82, 126 See also performance ethnography Cornerstone Theater, 116 See also community-based theater critical race theory, 170 Croce, Arlene, “victim art,” 105 See also Jones, Bill T. cultural capital, 17, 43–44, 91 See also Bourdieu, Pierre Cvetkovich, Ann, 169 Daly, Ann dance, criticism of, 9 writing and gesture, 168–69 Darlington, Madge, 27 See also Rude Mechanicals Davis, Angela, 142 Davis, Thulani, 150 Davy, Kate, 97 Def Poetry Jam, 2, 14, 20, 28, 80, 89–112, 114, 129 See also HBO; Simmons, Russell 226
Index Del Valle, Mayda, 108 See also Def Poetry Jam democracy, 36, 48, 94 participatory, models of, 28–29, 90–112, 116, 124 See also citizen-scholar-artist; Def Poetry Jam radical democracy, 11, 21, 91, 101, 103...