Jay Pather, Performance, and Spatial Politics in South Africa

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

AvKetu H. Katrak,Ketu H Katrak

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Jay Pather, Performance and Spatial Politics in South Africa offers the first full-length monograph on the award-winning choreographer, theater director, curator, and creative artist in contemporary global performance. Working within the contexts of African studies, dance, theater, and performance, Ketu H. Katrak explores the extent of Pather's productive career but also places him and his work in the South African and global arts scene, where he is considered a visionary. Pather, a South African of Indian heritage, is known as a master of space, site, and location. Katrak examines how Pather's performance practices place him in the center of global trends that are interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, collaborative, and multimedia and that cross borders between dance, theater, visual art, and technology. Jay Pather, Performance and Spatial Politics in South Africa offers a vision of an artist who is strategically aware of the spatiality of human life, who understands the human body as the nation's collective history, and who is a symbol of hope and resilience after the trauma of violent segregation.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-03-02
Mått152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt807 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieIndiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor436
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253053671

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Preface: Personal Journey to Discovering Jay PatherIntroduction: Pather's Spatial Politics within South Africa's Historical and Political LandscapeJourneys across Political, Socio-racial and Geographic Borderlines: Interconnecting the Present, Past, and Future1. Crossing (over): Indian Ocean Migrations Pather's Historical Dance-Dramas2. Race and Space Matter: Outdancing Apartheid's Grip (1980s and 1990s) The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Choreographed Critiques of Broken Promises Post-1994 Testimonies; Laws of Recall; Unclenching the Fist, Forked Tongues, Shifting Spaces, Tilting TimeThe Transitional and the In-between: Theoretical and Creative Engagements with Urban Geography (2000-2015)3. Site-Specific Cartographies of Belonging Cityscapes; Republic; Rite, Blind Spot4. Site-Responsive Works of History and Memory Home; The Beautiful Ones Must be Born; Body of Evidence; Qaphela CaesarCuratorial Choreographies: Challenges of Curating Public Art Festivals (2007–Present)5. A New Kind of Performance-Curation of Live Artists Director of the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (2010-2015), now the Institute for Creative Arts (2016 on) Spier Contemporary: Fostering New South African Arts Director of GIPCA 2010-2015; Institute for Creative Arts (2016 on)Conclusion: A Sense of EndingAppendix: Indians in South AfricaBibliographyIndex

Katrak's text offers the first sustained scholarly account of the disruptive subversion, generative promise, and persistently evolving performance manifestoes of one of South Africa's most prominent and prolific arts practitioners and thinkers.- Juanita Finestone-Praeg (Journal of the African Literature Association) This is a rich, complex book that tackles and criss-crosses race, space, social and gender divides across historic periods, continents, local and global contexts. This is what makes it amazing and also challenging to read. It is theoretically rich and at times challenging to hold the many different theorists, reviewers' views, and different paradigms being invoked at once.- Yvett Hutchison (South African Theatre Journal) With its historical, cultural, and spatial contextualization of an artist whose work has cross many gendered and racial boundaries, Katrak's Jay Pather, Performance, and Spatial Politics in South Africa is a benchmark for future scholarship on South African dance and performance.(Praxis)