http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75067 2026-04-11T04:43:26Z 2026-04-11T04:43:26Z Belliveau, George White, Vincent http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75231 2026-03-04T18:13:23Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Performer and Audience Responses to Ethnotheatre: Exploring Conflict and Social Justice Authors: Belliveau, George; White, Vincent Abstract: George and Vince are engaged in a dialogue in which they reflect on meaningful ways that ethnotheatre can be employed as both a research methodology and a form of dissemination. In addition to examining some of the literature available on ethnotheatre, their discussion highlights some of the ethical and methodological issues that may arise when using this approach to conduct research. The authors share examples of how each of them have engaged in ethnodrama pieces, discussing why this approach proved a viable means to explore their respective research contexts. Feedback from participants and audience members who witnessed the ethnodrama performances provide insightful perspectives to critically examine the efficacy and potential of ethnotheatre.

2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Smithner, Nancy Putnam http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75230 2026-03-04T18:12:46Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Women’s Project: A Director’s Perspective on Creating a Performance Collage Authors: Smithner, Nancy Putnam Abstract: This article details the process of mounting original works created by women, for the NYU Forum for Ethnotheatre and Theatre for Social Justice. Exploring notions of culture and identity, the material represented the female narrative in performance through autoethnographies, spoken word poetry, rants, monologues, and the use of shifting characterization and movement. The director and performers paid critical attention to the body as an instrument through which meaning is generated, representing the power of the solo voice in the context of the ensemble. The performers’ artistic backgrounds, modes of solo performance, and the challenges and triumphs of re-envisioning and re-enacting social and cultural contexts are also discussed.

2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Saldaña, Johnny http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75229 2026-03-04T18:12:17Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Reflections on an Ethnotheatre Aesthetic Authors: Saldaña, Johnny Abstract: The author proposes through five assertions that an ethnotheatre aesthetic emerges from theatre artists’: 1) creative approaches to stage productions of natural social life; 2) application of available and new theatrical forms, genres, and styles onto the ethnodramatic play script and its production; 3) integrity to truthfulness as well as truth; 4) capacities for thinking theatrically as well as ethnographically; and 5) production and publication of research and creative activity in the genre to advance the field and to encourage dialogue among its practitioners. The author’s personal goal as an artist is to develop an ethnotheatre aesthetic that captures on stage a complex rendering of ethnotainment.

2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Marín, Christina http://hdl.handle.net/2451/75228 2026-03-04T18:11:44Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Editorial Authors: Marín, Christina Abstract: In this editorial, the editor reflects on the 2006 NYU Forum on Ethnotheatre and Theatre for Social Justice and introduces the three articles in this issue.

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