... Rachel Rusch Black and White Fires Tragedia Endogonidia: L. #09 directed by Romeo Castellucci Montclair State University/Peak Performances October 2005 4.48 Psychose directed by Claude Régy Brooklyn Academy of Music October 2005 There are two ways the heart can stop: It can slow...

...), and information storage and retrieval systems, without permission from Marc Bamuthi Joseph, c/o MAPP International Productions, 140 Second Avenue, Suite 502, New York, ny 10003. © 2012 by Marc Bamuthi Joseph 2012 red, black, and green: a blues, created by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Yerba Buena...

...Hannah Hurtzig © 2014 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2014 Portfolio Black Market Knowledge Performances curated and introduced by Hannah Hurtzig The installation works by Hannah Hurtzig and Mobile Academy Berlin showcased in this portfolio of photographs deal...

...Thomas F. DeFrantz © 2017 by Thomas F. DeFrantz 2017 American Realness, Abrons Arts Center, New York, 2016. Photo: Ian Douglas Thomas F. DeFrantz I Am Black (you have to be willing to not know) The discourse of race in contemporary performance falls apart when whites try...

...Suzan-Lori Parks Copyright © THEATER 1990 1990 The Death of the Last Black Man THE SECTIONS The black man moves his hands. in the Whole Entire World is QUEEN-THEN-PHARAOH scheduled to be staged at BACA...

.... The second: the Black Collectivity Project, a movement-based ensemble led by Nia-Amina Minor, David Rue, marco farroni, and Akoiya Harris, which conducted historical research about the lives and movements of twentieth century Seattle-based Black artists, including dancer Syvilla Fort, and staged...

...Amiri Baraka Copyright © THEATER 1978 1978 On Black Theater Amiri Baraka (The following is excerpted from a conversation held between scheme. This is the time to bring that back. The Depression Baraka, Asante Scott, and Joel Schechter in December, 1977...

...Jamil Jude; Sheila Kay Davis; Ty Jones; Guinea Bennett-Price; Ron Himes; Margo Hall; Rebecca Flemister Macbeth, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Harlem, ny, 2016. Photo: Richard Termine Interviews Mor e Than a Spac e Conversations with Artistic Directors of Black Theater Companies Jamil Jude...

...: Maria Baranova-­Suzuki Forum Bl ac k Theat er, under Pr e ssur e Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Mart ine Kei Gr een-­R o g ers, Jame s Ijame s, Khal id Yaya Long, Tor i Sampson, Lisa B. Thompson, Loy A. Webb, and Nia O. Witherspoon Edited and introduced by Isaiah Matthew Wooden Black...

...Jay Pather Using the protests of the Fees Must Fall movement as his starting point, Jay Pather examines the contradictions inherent within the culturally and politically loaded black body of postapartheid South Africa. Pather discusses the works of Brett Murray, Chuma Sopotela, Themba Mbuli...

...Robert Kimball; William Bolcom Copyright © by yale/theatre 1973 1973 Reminiscing with Side and Blake: The Black Musical in America Robert Kimball WiNiam Boloom It is now more than fifty-seven years ago that Noble Sissle, a twenty-five-year-oldsinger and lyricist from...

...André M. Zachery © 2016 by André M. Zachery 2016 André M. Zachery Artist’s Journal Futurity and the Containment of Blackness in Twenty-First-­ Century­ Performance The term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in his 1994 Flame Wars chapter “Black to the Future.”1...

...M. Lamar; Tucker Culbertson M. Lamar and Tucker Culbertson elaborate on M. Lamar’s aesthetics of Negrogothic cinema, music, and performance. The Negrogothic, explain the authors, is an approach to representation in which the black body verges on disappearance and the interior of the black psyche...

...Faedra Chatard Carpenter In Carpenter’s musings on the dramaturgical discomfort of staging black suffering and subjugation, she takes on the task of identifying ways to make space for the dysfluency of black life in America on stage. Using the model of Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm’s tragicomedy...

...Thomas F. DeFrantz This essay begins by outlining the forces of assimilation and dissent within the history of black American performance artistry since the 1960s. DeFrantz proposes a shift in curators' priorities away from representing multiculturalism in national presenting organizations in favor...

...André Lepecki In a talk originally presented at the 2015 Munich conference for the “Show Me a World” project, scholar André Lepecki, drawing from postcolonial theory and critical black studies, puts forth a critique of the colonial tendencies within curatorial practice and the art system. Lepecki...

... western playwrights, in another, that “pioneered by my grandfather, by Nat Turner, by Denmark Vesey, by Martin Delaney, Marcus Garvey, and the Honorable Elijah Muhammad.” Wilson called the Black Power movement of the ’60s “the kiln in which I was fired” and said: “It is difficult to disassociate...

... . Arena . New York: Duell, Sloan and Pierce, 1940 . Fraden , Rena . Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre, 1935–1939 . Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 1994 . France , Richard . The Theatre of Orson Welles . Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1977 . Hill , Abram , and John Silvera...

..., music, While Zpi-Tombi does not purport to be a pre- and dance. Such works have often proved finan- cise documentary account of the lives of blacks in cially successful in both South Africa and abroad. South Africa, it does lead us to believe that the They have been a conspicuous element...

... production work for the tour. I perform some became my life’s work. Confronting, talking excerpts from My Father and the Wars. They about, and attempting to change every vestige are warmly received, the audience largely facul- of ignorance about African black people being...