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Theater Intensive: Dramatic Articulations of Black Suffering (Theory of Black Theater and Performance Practice) (Englischsprachig)
Blockveranstaltung
ECTS: 3
Einzeltermine:
Do 09.05.13 18:00 - 21:00 GW2 B3010 (Kleiner Studierraum)
Fr 10.05.13 09:00 - 12:00 SpT C4180
Fr 10.05.13 14:00 - 17:00 SFG 1020
Sa 11.05.13 10:00 - 13:00 SFG 2070
Sa 11.05.13 14:00 - 16:00 SFG 2070
This workshop is designed to concertize with the important work in the context of INPUTS and Black Diaspora Studies at the University of Bremen to orient students to the vast complexities of "race", specifically as it concerns the world's relation to the Black. In particular, I will be introducing the students at Bremen to the way in which I am examining the condition of "antiblack racism" through my theoretical engagement with Black "American" playwrights' dramatic articulations of this condition.
_I will send along, by way of Professor Broeck, an ensemble of preliminary readings in anticipation of the seminar, please check back on Stud IP!!_
Throughout the course of the seminar, we will watch excerpts from dramatic renderings of plays by and interviews with George C. Wolfe, Suzan-Lori Parks, Kia Corthron and Lynn Nottage, among others, as well as excerpts from theoretical and activist lectures -- among them, Angela Davis, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Jared C. Sexton, Frank B. Wilderson on the manifestations of race and racism in the world.
In addition, our sessions will involve reading aloud together excerpts from several plays, including Wolfe's /The Colored Museum/; Parks' /Topdog/Underdog/; Corthron's /Breath, Boom,/ and Nottage's /Las Meninas/, among others, in order to explore the theoretical tensions that arise when the figure of the Black is examined in her/his/their absence In other words, what useful questions -- beyond geographical and so-called "cultural" difference -- are piqued by the act of non-Blacks performing/reading Black characters aloud? What are the spaces into which we might enter -- both dramatically /and/ theoretically -- that enable a different conversation; namely, about racism as a world-structuring apparatus? In what ways do these dramatists' works labor to demonstrate the tool that structuring has taken on both the Black striving to enter that world and the Black who already knows s/he/they cannot enter it?
To these ends, we will spend half our time "at the table" (as we say in theatre parlance) reading, discussing and placing these plays and theoretical texts in conversation, and half our time "on our feet", enacting excerpts from the plays.
It will be a rigorous and dynamic forum -- one that will bring a thesis to the table about how "black subjection" is enacted in these modern times, but it will also be a forum that invites students to openly engage with their interests, concerns, fears and confusions, in a space that welcomes as much as it challenges them.
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Jaye Austin Williams
Prof. Dr. Sabine Bröck
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_I will send along, by way of Professor Broeck, an ensemble of preliminary readings in anticipation of the seminar, please check back on Stud IP!!_
Throughout the course of the seminar, we will watch excerpts from dramatic renderings of plays by and interviews with George C. Wolfe, Suzan-Lori Parks, Kia Corthron and Lynn Nottage, among others, as well as excerpts from theoretical and activist lectures -- among them, Angela Davis, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Jared C. Sexton, Frank B. Wilderson on the manifestations of race and racism in the world.
In addition, our sessions will involve reading aloud together excerpts from several plays, including Wolfe's /The Colored Museum/; Parks' /Topdog/Underdog/; Corthron's /Breath, Boom,/ and Nottage's /Las Meninas/, among others, in order to explore the theoretical tensions that arise when the figure of the Black is examined in her/his/their absence In other words, what useful questions -- beyond geographical and so-called "cultural" difference -- are piqued by the act of non-Blacks performing/reading Black characters aloud? What are the spaces into which we might enter -- both dramatically /and/ theoretically -- that enable a different conversation; namely, about racism as a world-structuring apparatus? In what ways do these dramatists' works labor to demonstrate the tool that structuring has taken on both the Black striving to enter that world and the Black who already knows s/he/they cannot enter it?
To these ends, we will spend half our time "at the table" (as we say in theatre parlance) reading, discussing and placing these plays and theoretical texts in conversation, and half our time "on our feet", enacting excerpts from the plays.
It will be a rigorous and dynamic forum -- one that will bring a thesis to the table about how "black subjection" is enacted in these modern times, but it will also be a forum that invites students to openly engage with their interests, concerns, fears and confusions, in a space that welcomes as much as it challenges them.