Performing #MeToo

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Performing #MeToo is a collection of incisive essays analysing global performances inspired by the #MeToo movement. It explores how artists and scholars engage with themes like celebrity feminism, protest, misogynistic speech, and the politics of performance to capture this cultural moment. Contributors offer thoughtful reflections on works they have performed, witnessed, or studied, providing a nuanced archive of activism and artistic expression.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in the intersection of social movements and the performing arts, including students, academics, and those engaged with feminist and contemporary cultural studies.

Voices from diverse cultural and environmental contexts writing on forms of engagement with the topic of performing #MeToo – testimony, witnessing, interpretation and field reports. Includes people who speak from personal experience, as well as allies, activists and scholars. Examines contemporary work, and work from the pre-#MeToo era. 25 b/w illus.

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This collection of essays applies a multinational lens to performances that explore the #MeToo movement.

In October 2017, a wave of sexual assault allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein prompted an outpouring of similar stories on Twitter and beyond, all bound by the same hashtag: #MeToo. The phrase, initially coined by activist Tarana Burke in 2006, reverberated across the internet and invigorated a movement. The essays in this volume engage with many of the performative interpretations of and responses to the #MeToo movement and invite reflection, discussion, and action.

Written by an international group of scholars and artists, the essays bring a global perspective to discussions on topics at the intersection of the #MeToo movement and the performing arts, including celebrity feminism, the practice of protest as a coping mechanism, misogynistic speech, the politics of performance, rehearsing and performing intimacy, and more. Contributors highlight works they have performed, witnessed, or studied, offering analysis and nuance while creating an archive of a powerful cultural moment.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781789387551

Publisher: Intellect

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 April 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Intellect Books

Edition: New edition

Illustration: 22 Halftones, black and white

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Edited by Judith Rudakoff

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 170.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 260

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Politics & Current Affairs

About the Author

Judith Rudakoff has worked as a developmental dramaturg with emerging and established playwrights and artists throughout Canada, Cuba, Denmark, South Africa, England and the United States. Her books include Performing Exile: Foreign Bodies (2017); Dramaturging Personal Narratives: Who am I and Where is Here? (2015); TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work (2012); Between the Lines: The Process of Dramaturgy (2002, co-editor Lynn M. Thomson); Questionable Activities: Canadian Theatre Artists in Conversation with Canadian Theatre Students (2000); Fair Play: Conversations with Canadian Women Playwrights (1989, co-editor Rita Much). Her articles have appeared in many journals, including The Drama Review (TDR), TheatreForum, Theatre Topics, and Canadian Theatre Review. She is the creator of The Four Elements and Elemental Lomograms, transcultural tools for initiating live performance, written work and visual art. She was the first Canadian honoured with the Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy for her work on South Asian choreographer Lata Pada’s multidisciplinary work, Revealed by Fire (2001). In 1999, she was the first foreigner designated an Honourary Member of Cuba’s acclaimed Teatro Escambray. Dr. Rudakoff is a member of Playwrights Guild of Canada, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. She is professor of theatre at York University in Toronto, Canada.