Socially Engaged Creative Practice

This isthe second book in the Performance and Communities series. An edited collection from academics and artistsengages with both these notions ofperformance - that of identities in and throughtime and space - and of more formal instances ofspecific time-limited performances; textual, embodied, visual and communal. Each chapterfocuses on an individual or group's mode ofworking and methodological practice ofperformance across a range of modes, disciplinesand media - from community opera to onlinequeer performance, from anti-racist class-room pedagogy to 1980s cabaret in nightclubs, fromcommunity art projects in schools to communitywriting projects in transport interchanges, theperformers, writers and creators represented hereall engage and grapple with contemporaryperformance as a situated practice and as aproblematic. The personal perspective of eachperformer - directors, librettists, producers,writers, performers - is explicitly located in acommunity and the book offers a series of casestudies detailing socially engaged work that alignswith concepts of performance and community.