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Theater and Dance Final
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Undergraduate 2
05/01/2009

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Judith Butler believes it is a “stylized repetition of acts.”
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Gender
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This type of art rejects unity, structure, and harmony.
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Dada
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This queer performer always gets naked during his shows.
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Tim Miller – because there is a prevalent notion that the male, gay body is corrupt with AIDS.
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To perform here, you must 1. Identify as a woman, 2. show up
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WOW Cafe
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She learned how to be a sanitation worker in order to make a dance with and about them.
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Allison Orr (or Forklift Danceworks)
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Boys in the Band and Last Summer at Bluefish Cove were written after this historic event
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The Stonewall Riots
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Richard Schechner says it is “twice-behaved behavior”
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Performance
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Interviews and performs multiple characters in Twilight: Los Angeles 1992
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Anna Devere Smith
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In this type of theatre, the story is seen through the character’s warped perception of the world
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Impressionism
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Interviews, trial transcripts, or news reports are often used in this type of performance
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Documentary Theatre
Term
1. Floor plans
2. Renderings
3. Model
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Scenic design process
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He is Merce Cunningham’s artistic collaborator who wrote 4.5 Minutes of Silence
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John Cage
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Example of Dada form: Butterfly lamp, Towel Visine, Telephone
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Chance poetry
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This play’s dialogue contains hidden innuendos that gay audience members would understand in the 1950’s and 60’s.
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The Zoo Story
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Wrote Los Vendidos
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Luis Valdez
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Farmworkers were the intended audience for this theatre group in the 1960’s
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El Teatro Campesino
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Believes that dance is people moving, and does not “mean” anything in particular
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Merce Cunningham
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Wrote and performed Menopausal Gentleman and founded WOW Café
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Peggy Shaw
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In the early 20th century, this was often used as a titillating way to drive the plot
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Homosexuality
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This play was based on the Sleepy Lagoon murder trials of the 1940’s
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Zoot Suit by Luis Valdez; used living newspaper techniques
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A dramatic form that is: Short, created collectively, focused on social action
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An acto
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This movement wanted to burn libraries and museums
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Futurism
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This type of theatre is cheap to produce and often autobiographical
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Solo performance
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