Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with.
A wealth of contributions from directors, scholars and actor trainers address afrocentric processes and aesthetics, and interviews with key figures in Black American theatre illuminate their methods. This ground-breaking collection is an essential resource for teachers, students, actors and directors seeking to reclaim, reaffirm or even redefine the role and contributions of Black culture in theatre arts.
Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Table of Contents:
Order of Offerings
FOREWORD: The Blessing by Molefi Kete Asante
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION: The Affirmation by Sharrell D. Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer
Methods of Social Activism
OFFERING 1 The Hendricks Method
Sharrell D. Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer
OFFERING 2 SoulWork
Cristal Chanelle Truscott
OFFERING 3 Nudging the Memory-Creating Performance with the Medea Project:
Theatre for Incarcerated Women
Rhodessa Jones
OFFERING 4 Art Saves Lives: Rebecca Rice and the Performance of Black Feminist
Improv for Social Change
Lisa Biggs
Methods of Intervention
OFFERING 5 Seeing Shakespeare through Brown Eyes
Justin Emeka
OFFERING 6 Ritual Poetic Drama Within the African Continuum:
the journey from Shakespeare to Shange
Tawnya Pettiford-Wates
OFFERING 7 Remembering, Rewriting, and Re-Imagining: Afrocentric Approaches to
Directing New Work for the Theatre
Clinnesha Sibley
Methods of Cultural Plurality
OFFERING 8 The Hip Hop Theatre Initiative: We the ‘Griot’
Daniel Banks
OFFERING 9 Kadogo Mojo: Global Crossings in the Theatre
Aku Kadogo
OFFERING 10 #Unyielding Truth: Employing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Kashi Johnson and Daphnie Sicre
Reflections from Distinguished Practitioners
OFFERING 11 Rituals, Processes, and/or Methods from Distinguished Practitioners
Judyie Al-Bilali, Timothy Bond, Sheldon Epps, Shirley Jo Finney,
Nataki Garrett, Anita Gonzalez, Paul Carter Harrison, Robbie McCauley,
Seret Scott, Tommie ‘Tonea’ Stewart, Talvin Wilks
OFFERING 12 Words of Wisdom from Distinguished Practitioners
Judyie Al-Bilali, Timothy Bond, Walter Dallas, Sheldon Epps,
Shirley Jo Finney, Kamilah Forbes, Nataki Garrett, Anita Gonzalez,
Paul Carter Harrison, Ron Himes, Kym Moore, Seret Scott,
Talvin Wilks
APPENDIX: Recommendations for Acting/Performance Programs
that Seek to Provide Equitable Training
END NOTES
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
About the Author :
Sharrell D. Luckett is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies Scholarship at Muhlenberg College.
Tia M. Shaffer is Theatre Director and Fine Arts Chair at South Atlanta High School in Atlanta Public Schools. She also serves as Director for Youth and Children’s Ministries at Zion Hill Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA.
