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... of three years. Each production will be rooted in the indigenous cultural context of the individual city; it will be performed by an actress belonging to the city, who will shape Kroetz's text according to her own needs and tensions, her own sense of history. Totally wordless, Kroetz's monodrama focuses...

... by foundational promises from a few hundred years ago. This reminder, useful as it was and is, contains restric- tions embedded within it. For with a dream of freedom, a dream deeply rooted in the American dream, this dream is and was made manifest, activated on erasures and attempted eliminations of Indigenous...

... to be souring, fast. As I began writing this essay, rail line blockades had been erected on Indigenous land all around the country in response to invasions by the rcmp, Canada s national police force, of unceded territory in British Columbia. Today the Seven s land- scapes don t only look sublimely lonely...

... when I describe her gestures. Instead I center my role of being a witness to my uncle Joseph Naytowhow sharing a Nehiyew Sky Woman story that was given to him by Elder Yvonne Chamakese, from Pelican Lake which is located two hours from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. This writing highlights Indigenous...

... Mu s­ yoki. I m a PhD candidate at the University of Alberta. My research is in Afrocentric dramaturgy, intervention, and interweaving relations. I also work with Old Stories in New Ways, a project in Kenya that works with Indigenous storytelling. Last fall, I joined another project in Uganda, which...

.... On day 1 of his government, Lula presented the most diverse cabinet the country had ever seen, including the Indigenous leader Sônia Guajajara as minister of Indigenous people, Black activist Anielle Franco as minister of racial equality, and Afro-B­ razilian singer Margareth Menezes leading...

... work, Anzaldúa has given me the words to understand my experience as a queer Latinx immigrant with indigenous heritage, battling identity and cultural hybridity while surviving and existing within multiple worlds. In my work I utilize my body in a political and criti- cal way as an instrument...

... Germain Machuca is a Peruvian performance artist and activist, whose work for lgbtq rights has tirelessly demanded more humane politics toward communities living with hiv/aids. They have performed artistic protests against Peruvian state violence toward the most vulnerable populations: Indigenous...

... it in three situations — hospital, jungle, and city (or the city jungle) — that open up the text to a plurality of associations connected to the Brazilian context and its first matrix, indigenous culture. Even as the three narratives have cannibalism in com- mon, the theme unfolds in each one...

..., it is the undernourished modern and elitist theatre that has attracted Western critics looking for something new (but familiar) on the “dark continent.” By adapting Nigerian novels or folk tales to the stage, some modern dramatists try to create an indigenous dra- ma. But a play peopled by Nigerian...

... piece of legislation designed to protect Indigenous children and prioritize their well-b­ eing by maintaining connections to their cultural heritage and communities and by settling temporarily in homes with many lgbtqia+ families, as American society had laws in place banning lgbtqia+ families from...

..., deserved to be lampooned. This indigenous theater did not strive for political meaningfulness or profundity, which made it a more potent vehicle of transfor- mation. It critically depicted the lives of the people, using those theatrical and linguistic codes that were commonly shared by the rest...

... of popular theater was one of progressive indigenization. The concert party, the dominant folk art of the postwar period, was a fusion of local Fanti culture (especially the trickster tales featuring Ananse the spider) and vaudeville minstrelsy exported from the West in the 1920s as entertainment...

... (dramaturg) Interviewed and introduced by Sebastián Eddowes-­Vargas In 2019, Between Two Knees, a new play written by the Indigenous collective The 1491s (Migizi Pensoneau, Bobby Wilson, Sterlin Harjo, Dallas Goldtooth, and Ryan RedCorn) and directed by Eric Ting, premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival...

... on relationships between creative practice and political agency, especially when it comes to live forms. Bodies are vulnerable subjects under siege today: Black and brown bod- ies. Women s bodies. Queer bodies. Migratory and indigenous bodies. Disabled bodies. Muslim bodies. Bodies make movements when they form...

... many different ethnicities, Slabolepszy offered a tax- onomy of one-dimensional ethnic stereotypes. And in the much-lauded first indigenous South African opera, The Orphans ofQumbu, librettist...

... of wayward participation, attention to noncompliance reveals its crucial role in destabilizing power dynamics that can perpetuate oppression in collaborative practices. Motivated by scholarship in Black studies and critical Indigenous studies, I understand noncompliance as an act of refusal. While the exact...

... books example, La FOMMA (The Strength of the Mayan Woman), a theater collective that creates plays that make visible hidden and often unrecognized violence against women within indigenous communities. The play included in this anthology, A Des­ perate Woman, tracks how violence...

... women in the historical destruction of Black and Indigenous communities in the Americas.4 She denounces the blindness that many fellow white women have in thinking about the category women without considering the brutal differences between women in this colonized territory. She states...

.... Alternatively, it has served as a training regimen that, as it interacts with various regional and indigenous dances, transforms them into balleticized versions of those dances. In this interaction, the bodily shapings are ren- dered more geometric, the timings of steps more precise, and the spatial...