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Community Performance

An Introduction
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Community Performance: An Introduction by Petra Kuppers is a thorough and accessible guide ideal for students and practitioners involved in community arts, dance, and theatre. It offers practical tools alongside ethical reflections, featuring international case studies, first-person accounts, sample exercises, study questions, and insights from both theorists and practitioners. The second edition includes over 25% new content addressing contemporary developments such as social media, social justice contexts, and evolving professional standards. This book serves as both a classroom textbook and a practitionerโ€™s handbook.
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Suitable for students, educators, and practitioners engaged in community arts and performance, especially those interested in ethical practice and current trends in social and cultural contexts.

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Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, dance and theatre. The second edition aligns itself with a changed world of social media engagement, funding shifts, and new opportunities for people to reflect on the social power of perf

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Community Performance: An Introduction is a comprehensive and accessible practice-based primer for students and practitioners of community arts, dance, and theatre, offering reflection on the ethical issues inherent to the field. It is both a classroom-friendly textbook and a handbook for the practitioner, perfectly answering the needs of a field where teaching is orientated around practice.

Offering a toolkit for students interested in running community arts groups or community performance events, this book includes:

  • International case studies and first-person stories by practitioners and participants
  • Sample exercises, both practical and reflective
  • Study questions
  • Excerpts of illustrative material from theorists and practitioners

This second edition has been completely revised with over 25% new content to bring the book up to date with developments in both society and performance, including the rise of social media, updates in the contexts of social justice, new standards and norms in social practice, and the changing faces of funding, evaluation, and professional development.

The book can be used as a standalone text or together with its companion volume, Community Performance: A Reader, to provide an excellent introduction to the field of community arts practice.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367184360

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 May 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 91 Halftones, black and white; 92 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 558g

Pages: 266

About the Author

Petra Kuppers is an internationally active disability culture activist, a community performance artist, Artistic Director of The Olimpias performance research collective, and a Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also teaches on the low-residency MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College.

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