Black Acting Methods

<p><em>Black Acting Methods</em> seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p> <p>Order of Offerings</p><p>FOREWORD: <i>The Blessing</i> by Molefi Kete Asante</p><p>ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS </p><p>INTRODUCTION:<i> The Affirmation </i>by Sharrell D. Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer</p><p>Methods of Social Activism</p><p>OFFERING 1 <i>The Hendricks Method </i></p><p>Sharrell D. Luckett and Tia M. Shaffer</p><p>OFFERING 2 <i>SoulWork</i></p><p>Cristal Chanelle Truscott</p><p>OFFERING 3 <i>Nudging the Memory-Creating Performance with the Medea Project: </i></p><p>Theatre for Incarcerated Women </p><p>Rhodessa Jones </p><p>OFFERING 4 <i>Art Saves Lives: Rebecca Rice and the Performance of Black Feminist </i></p><p>Improv for Social Change </p><p>Lisa Biggs </p><p>Methods of Intervention</p><p>OFFERING 5 <i>Seeing Shakespeare through Brown Eyes</i> </p><p>Justin Emeka</p><p>OFFERING 6 <i>Ritual Poetic Drama Within the African Continuum:</i></p><p>the journey from Shakespeare to Shange</p><p>Tawnya Pettiford-Wates </p><p>OFFERING 7 <i>Remembering, Rewriting, and Re-Imagining: Afrocentric Approaches to </i></p><p>Directing New Work for the Theatre</p><p>Clinnesha Sibley </p><p>Methods of Cultural Plurality</p><p>OFFERING 8 <i>The Hip Hop Theatre Initiative: We the ‘Griot’</i></p><p>Daniel Banks </p><p>OFFERING 9 <i>Kadogo Mojo: Global Crossings in the Theatre</i></p><p>Aku Kadogo</p><p>OFFERING 10 <i>#Unyielding Truth: Employing Culturally Relevant Pedagogy</i></p><p>Kashi Johnson and Daphnie Sicre</p><p>Reflections from Distinguished Practitioners</p><p>OFFERING 11 <i>Rituals, Processes, and/or Methods from Distinguished Practitioners</i></p><p>Judyie Al-Bilali, Timothy Bond, Sheldon Epps, Shirley Jo Finney, </p><p>Nataki Garrett, Anita Gonzalez, Paul Carter Harrison, Robbie McCauley,</p><p>Seret Scott, Tommie ‘Tonea’ Stewart, Talvin Wilks</p><p>OFFERING 12 <i>Words of Wisdom from Distinguished Practitioners</i></p><p>Judyie Al-Bilali, Timothy Bond, Walter Dallas, Sheldon Epps, </p><p>Shirley Jo Finney, Kamilah Forbes, Nataki Garrett, Anita Gonzalez, </p><p>Paul Carter Harrison, Ron Himes, Kym Moore, Seret Scott, </p><p>Talvin Wilks</p><p>APPENDIX: <i>Recommendations for Acting/Performance Programs </i></p><p>that Seek to Provide Equitable Training </p><p>END NOTES</p><p>LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS</p><p>INDEX</p>