
Queering the Stage
Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality
Adi Cabral(Author)
Focal Press
1st Edition
Published on 13. December 2024
Book
Hardback
306 pages
978-1-032-35120-9 (ISBN)
Description
Queering the Stage: Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality addresses a history of stereotyping and provides inclusive approaches to navigating gender and sexuality in a way that does not reduce the broad spectrum of LGBTQ+ communities into a single monolith.
Butch it up! Be more manly! Add a little swish! Queen out! These instructions make performers feel minimized, erased, and forced to fit in a binary that encourages underdeveloped portrayals of queer identities. This book will guide the reader in performance techniques for confidently embodying the masculine/ feminine, gay/ straight binaries - as concepts of chosen choreography rather than reductive prescriptions - while also providing non- binary exercises to explore and expand the use of the body, voice, heart, and mind to bring life to characters of sexual orientations and gender identities that do and do not align with the actors' lived experiences. The reader will be presented with multiple tools for analyzing, developing, and embodying a diverse array of characters, empowering them to make their own choices when it comes to performance. While there is no "right" way to teach performance, this book will present tools rooted in trauma- informed practices that aim to prevent and undo harm in a group setting with a facilitator, or individually.
This book is written for instructors of theatre performance and acting wishing to expand their curriculum to include queer concepts in their classroom, and actors working in the industry who want to improve their ability performing characters of diverse genders and sexualities.
A companion website, available at www.adicabral.com/queering-the-stage, provides additional materials to support exercises given throughout the book.
Butch it up! Be more manly! Add a little swish! Queen out! These instructions make performers feel minimized, erased, and forced to fit in a binary that encourages underdeveloped portrayals of queer identities. This book will guide the reader in performance techniques for confidently embodying the masculine/ feminine, gay/ straight binaries - as concepts of chosen choreography rather than reductive prescriptions - while also providing non- binary exercises to explore and expand the use of the body, voice, heart, and mind to bring life to characters of sexual orientations and gender identities that do and do not align with the actors' lived experiences. The reader will be presented with multiple tools for analyzing, developing, and embodying a diverse array of characters, empowering them to make their own choices when it comes to performance. While there is no "right" way to teach performance, this book will present tools rooted in trauma- informed practices that aim to prevent and undo harm in a group setting with a facilitator, or individually.
This book is written for instructors of theatre performance and acting wishing to expand their curriculum to include queer concepts in their classroom, and actors working in the industry who want to improve their ability performing characters of diverse genders and sexualities.
A companion website, available at www.adicabral.com/queering-the-stage, provides additional materials to support exercises given throughout the book.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
General, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
2 s/w Zeichnungen, 10 s/w Tabellen, 22 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 24 s/w Abbildungen
10 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 22 Halftones, black and white; 24 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
619 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-35120-9 (9781032351209)
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Person
Adi Cabral (they/ them) is the Associate Professor of Voice
and Movement in the Department of Theatre and Dance at
the University of Nevada, Reno, and works professionally
as a Dialect Coach, Intimacy Professional, and Audiobook
Narrator. Their professional credits include productions at
Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Alliance
Theatre, Houston Stages, Theatre Squared, Utah Shakespeare
Festival, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Repertory
Theatre of St. Louis, New Repertory Theatre, Mildred's
Umbrella Theatre Company, Stage Q, New Hazlett Theater,
Hangar Theatre Company, Central Square Theatre, Edinburgh
Fringe Festival, and Darlinghurst Theatre. Their research and
publications focus on cultural competency in performance
training with a focus on Spanish accents and queer inclusivity.
They are a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, Knight-
Thompson Speechwork, a Reiki Master, and a proud member
of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and SAGAFTRA.
For more information, visit www.AdiCabral.com.
and Movement in the Department of Theatre and Dance at
the University of Nevada, Reno, and works professionally
as a Dialect Coach, Intimacy Professional, and Audiobook
Narrator. Their professional credits include productions at
Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Alliance
Theatre, Houston Stages, Theatre Squared, Utah Shakespeare
Festival, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Repertory
Theatre of St. Louis, New Repertory Theatre, Mildred's
Umbrella Theatre Company, Stage Q, New Hazlett Theater,
Hangar Theatre Company, Central Square Theatre, Edinburgh
Fringe Festival, and Darlinghurst Theatre. Their research and
publications focus on cultural competency in performance
training with a focus on Spanish accents and queer inclusivity.
They are a certified teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, Knight-
Thompson Speechwork, a Reiki Master, and a proud member
of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and SAGAFTRA.
For more information, visit www.AdiCabral.com.
Content
1. Introduction 2. Should I Part 1: Unlocking the Mind 3. Inventory of Choice 4. Performing Beyond the Binary Part 2: Expanding the Heart 5. The (Ab)Normal Heart - (Classwork, Dramaturgy, Research) 6. Let's Talk About Sex, Baby Part 3: Choreographing Gender and Sexuality 7. Gender Affirming Movement 8. Embodying the Binary 9. Queering the Body Part 4: Codeswitching Gender and Sexuality 10. Owning Your Voice 11. Binary Dialects 12. Queering the Voice Part 5: Putting it Together 13. You've Been Cast, Now What?