Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange

1. Introduction
Mike Sell

Part I. Intersections

2. Introduction
James M. Harding

3. From Italy and Russia to France and the U.S.: “Fascist” Futurism and Balanchine’s “American” Ballet
Patricia Gaborik, Andrea Harris

4. Confessions of a Failed Theatre Activist: Intercultural Encounters in Uganda and Rwanda
Laura Edmondson

5. The Living Theatre’s Arrested Development in Brazil: an Intersection of Activist Performances
Cindy Rosenthal

Part II. Translations

6. Introduction
Jean Graham-Jones

7. “Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought”: Anarchism and the Introduction of Modern Western Theatre to China
Siyuan Liu, Andrea Harris

8. Translation, Typography, and the Avant-Garde’s Impossible Text
Sarah Bay-Cheng

9. Maoist Performativities: Milton Acorn and the Canadian Liberation Movement
Alan Filewod

Part III. Divergences

10. Introduction
Alan Filewod

11. Avant-Garde Becomes Nationalism: Immortalizing Nam June Paik in South Korea
Esther Kim Lee

12. The Avant-Garde of Necessity: the Protest Theatre Movement in Zimbabwe
Praise Zenenga

13. The Ians in the Audience: Punk Attitude and the Influence of the Avant-Garde
Graham White

14. Afterword The Avant-Garde and Vector Studies: A Roundtable
Alan Filewod, James M. Harding, Jean Graham-Jones, Kimberly Jannarone, Mike Sell

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Performing Arts, Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Film History