Exercises for Rebel Artists

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Radical Performance Pedagogy

By: Guillermo Gomez Pena, Roberto Sifuentes

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Paperback | 20 September 2011 | Edition Number 1

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In Exercises for Rebel Artists, Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes use their extensive teaching and performance experience with La Pocha Nostra to help students and practitioners to create 'border art'.

Designed to take readers right into the heart of radical performance, the authors use a series of crucial practical exercises, honed in workshops worldwide, to help create challenging theatre which transcends the boundaries of nation, gender, and racial identity.

The book features:

Detailed exercises for using Pocha Nostra methods in workshops

Inspirational approaches for anyone creating, producing or teaching radical performance

A step-by-step guide for large-scale group performance

New, unpublished photos of the Pocha Nostra method in practice

Exercises for Rebel Artists advocates teaching as an important form of activism and as an extension of the performance aesthetic. It is an essential text for anyone who wants to learn how use performance to both challenge and change.

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment Art Forms Non-Graphic Art Forms Performance Art Acting & Theatre Studies Other Graphic Art Forms Dance & Other Performing Arts History of Art & Design Styles Art from 1900 to Current Art from 1960 General Issues in Art

List of illustrations	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Special thanks y muchas gracias	p. xvii
Introduction: Performance as radical pedagogy - a brief history of the "Pocha method"	p. 1
Aims and motivations of a Pocha Nostra performance workshop	p. 10
Notes to producers and workshop facilitators: useful suggestions for preparing a performance workshop inspired by La Pocha Nostra	p. 13
Identifying and preparing the space	p. 17
Important notes to workshop participants	p. 23
Words to try to avoid when conducting a workshop	p. 33
Performance exercises, rituals, and games to cross borders	p. 35
Part 1: "Hands-on" physical and perceptual exercises	p. 39
Part 2: Conceptual and poetic exercises	p. 75
Part 3: Exercises to generate performance material and living images	p. 99
Part 4: The infamous Pocha "jam sessions"	p. 133
Part 5: Preparing for a public performance	p. 153
Syllabus for performance workshops	p. 175
Humble advice for emerging performance artists	p. 184
In a permanent process of reinvention (a conversation)	p. 189
Part 1: The beginning of a new era	p. 190
Part 2: Opening up the methodology	p. 195
Part 3: Inclusivity and the performance "moment"	p. 203
Part 4: Strategies for negotiating external and internal border issues in a Pocha workshop setting	p. 209
Letter from Oaxaca: performing in the flames	p. 216
Mapping territories of inquiry: poetic/performance texts generated by workshop participants	p. 221
Index	p. 231
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