Performing Arts
Parallaxe: Celebrating the Provencher Bridge
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Terrance Heath
Border Crossings, vol. 23, no. 1, February 2004, pp. 86-89
Description
Review of the exhibition curated by Marie Bouchard, which celebrated the reconstruction of a bridge in St. Boniface, Manitoba, event included performance of Collette Jacques of northern Ontario.
Performing Aboriginality at the Venice Biennale: The Performance Art of Rebeca Belmore and James Luna
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Carla Taunton
Revista Mexicana de Estudios Canadienses, no. 13, New Series, primavera-verano, 2007, pp. 55-68
Description
Argues that the artists use a combination of storytelling and technology to express viewpoints on contemporary issues.
Performing Memory, Transforming Time: History and Indigenous North American Drama
Alternate Title
Indigenous North American Drama: A Multivocal History
[Native Traces]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Birgit Däwes
Description
Introduction to Indigenous North American Drama: A Multivocal History uses Gerald Vizenor's A Season for All Things to highlight certain themes in the book.
Performing the Native Woman: Primitivism and Mimicry in Early Twentieth-Century Visual Culture
Alternate Title
[Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Ruth B. Phillips
Description
Argues that during the period between the 1860s and the 1960s performance art offered the most favourable site for answering to stereotypes such as vanishing, pre-modern and degenerate races. Uses the careers of Ester Deer and Molly Nelson as examples.
Chapter from: Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity edited by Lynda Jessup
Performing the Problematics and Possibilities of Developing a Curriculum for Cultural Diversity
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Terry Carson
Ingrid Johnston
George Richardson
Jyoti Mangat
Jennifer Tupper ... [et al.]
Educational Insights, vol. 8, no. 2, 2003, pp. [1-18]
Description
Performance consisting of five linked scenes each attempting to represent a different aspect of developing a curriculum for cultural diversity in teacher education curriculum.
Play Provides Sex Education Roadmap
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Carmen Pauls Orthner
Windspeaker, vol. 25, no. 4, July 2007, p. 13
Description
Comments on the positive feedback the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company received when performing their interactive play on sex education to three schools in Saskatoon and La Ronge.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.13.
Poetry, Remnants and Ruins: Aboriginal Theatre in Canada
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Floyd Favel
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 139, Summer, 2009, pp. 31-35
Description
Author reflects on the defining characteristics and current status of Aboriginal theatre, as well elements needed to ensure it flourishes in the future.
Power and Privilege: The Role of the Reviewer in Responding to Indigenous Theatre
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dione Joseph
Te Kaharoa, vol. 9, Ka Haka: Empowering Performance, Māori and Indigenous Performance Studies Symposium, 2016, pp. [91]-106
Description
Comments on reviews by Pākehā critics of an Aboriginal Australian theatre work, HART based on testimonials from the Stolen Generation.
Qaggiavutt! Society for Nunavut Performing Arts: A Story of Artistic Dreams and Collaboration
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Laakku uk Williamson Bathory
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 2, Spring/Summer, 2014, pp. 24-29
Description
Discusses the roots of the performing arts group and the two main projects being concentrated on.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 24.
Rebecca Belmore: Vigil and the Named and the Unnamed, 2002
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Charo Neville
West Coast Line, vol. 41, no. 1, Representations of Murdered and Missing Women, Spring, 2007, pp. 52-57
Description
Looks at a performance artist whose work addresses the issue of missing and murdered women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Recent Indigenous Theatre in Australia: The Politics of Autobiography
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Hilary Glow
International Journal of the Humanities, vol. 4, no. 1, 2006, pp. [1]-7
Description
"This paper looks at the development of Indigenous theatre in Australia and considers how increased mainstream production opportunities have facilitated this expansion of Indigenous theatre practice."
Red Sky
Web Sites » Organizations
Author/Creator
Red Sky
Description
Red Sky is a Toronto-based company that shapes contemporary world Indigenous performance in dance, theatre and music. This website includes links to productions, touring, gallery, blog, navigate the treeline, community connections, and press.
Refiguring Indian Blood Through Poetry, Photography, and Performance Art
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Elizabeth Archuleta
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 17, no. 4, Winter, 2005, pp. 1-26
Description
Describes how Native American authors Paula Gunn Allen, Sherman Alexie, Elizabeth Woody, Teresa lyall-Santos, James Luna, Marie Annharte Baker, and Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie create oppositional models, which challenge current paradigms and understandings of Native American identity.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.
Remembering the Trickster in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lina Perkins
Modern Drama, vol. 45, no. 2, Summer, 2002, pp. 259-269
Description
Argues that the character of Nanabush is not identical to the figure found in traditional stories, and discusses his role in underlying temporal theme of the play.
Repositioning the Interface for Cross-Cultural Reception of Indigenous Australian Theatre
Alternate Title
Being There: After-Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Maryrose Casey
Description
Chapter from Being There: After-Proceedings of the 2006 Conference of the Australasian Association for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies edited by Ian Maxwell.
Resiliant Singer was Passionate About Healing
Alternate Title
Resilent Singer was Passionate About Healing
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dianne Meili
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 12, March 2013, p. 30
Description
Looks at a performer who used music and song to help overcome abuse, violence and trauma faced during her life.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.30.
Reviews
Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Jack D. Forbes
Jennifer McLerran
Mark A. Nicholas
Jaye T. Darby
MIchael D. Green
David Martìnez
Peter J. Garcia
Maria Orban
Crisca Bierwert
John Munro
et al.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 28, no. 3, 2004, pp. 121-178
Description
Book reviews of:
American Indians in U.S. History by Roger L. Nichols.
Blanket Weaving in the Southwest by Joe Ben Wheat.
Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield by Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney.
“The Cherokee Night” and Other Plays by Lynn Riggs.
Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World by Robbie Ethridge.
Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies edited by Bruce E. Johansen.
Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption by Enrique R.
Richard Wagamese 1: Performance Storytelling
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Richard Wagamese
Description
Video clip from the performance storytellling presentation An Evening with Richard Wagamese. In the video Richard, an Ojibway columnist / novelist / storyteller, expresses his views on language, orality and storytelling.
Scandalous Personas, Difficult Knowledge, Restless Images: The Work of Lori Blondeau
Articles » General
Author/Creator
Lynne Bell
Canadian Art, vol. 21, no. 4, Winter, 2004, pp. 48-53
Description
Discussion on Lori Blondeau’s work, which explores the influence of popular media and culture (contemporary and historical) on Aboriginal self-identity, self-image, and self-definition.