Embodying transformation: transcultural performance

"The essays in this collection explore transcultural events to reveal deeper understandings of the dynamic nature, power and affect of performance as it is created and witnessed across national and cultural boundaries. Focusing on historical and contemporary public events in multiple contexts, contributors offer readings of transcultural exchanges between Europe, Asia and the Middle East, between colonisers and the colonised and back again. In the process the authors explore questions of aesthetics, cultural anxiety, cultural control and how to realise intentions in performance practice."--Cover.

Introduction -- Arcadian scenes: Bougainville, Banks and theatrical perception in the South Pacific -- 'Notorious' mimics: mimetic performance for entertainment in the transcultural encounter in colonial Australia -- Embodied re-imaginings: Greek tragedy, Nietzsche and German expressionist theatre -- Re-citing Chekhov in Canada -- Christoph Schlingensief's 'Hamlet' in Switzerland: a theatrical 'resocialisation' -- Here be Taniwha: performance research on the edge of the world -- Re-framing Pākehā narratives: interweaving Māori-ness into performances of two plays by Gary Henderson -- In a fresh hue: an adaptation of Chaturanga -- From Naga Wong to The Message: the intercultural collaboration and transformation of Makhampom's contemporary likay performance -- Making space for international students: in your own words -- Reading Islamic identity in contemporary performance art and reconsidering the secular lens of western performance praxis -- Anti-transcultural performance: flashmobbing the Cape Town Opera's production of Porgy and Bess.