“The Whole Thing You’re Doing Is White Man’s Ways”: fareWel’ s Northern Tour
The emergence of Native performance on Canadian stages in the late twentieth century is determined by some to be a “logical extension” of the practice of First Nations storytelling (Taylor 140). First Nations performances have certainly incorporated culturally specific aspects, and some tribes, like...
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crunivtoronpr:10.3138/ctr.108.009 2023-12-31T10:06:53+01:00 “The Whole Thing You’re Doing Is White Man’s Ways”: fareWel’ s Northern Tour Lenze, Christine 2001 http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/ctr.108.009 https://ctr.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/ctr.108.009 en eng University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) Canadian Theatre Review volume 108, page 48-51 ISSN 0315-0836 1920-941X Visual Arts and Performing Arts journal-article 2001 crunivtoronpr https://doi.org/10.3138/ctr.108.009 2023-12-01T08:18:09Z The emergence of Native performance on Canadian stages in the late twentieth century is determined by some to be a “logical extension” of the practice of First Nations storytelling (Taylor 140). First Nations performances have certainly incorporated culturally specific aspects, and some tribes, like the Kwakiutl of British Columbia, have performed ritual dramas for hundreds of years. In an interview with Hartmut Lutz, however, playwright Daniel David Moses remains hesitant about linking structural categories like “drama” to First Nations performance. As Moses explains, I’m not sure whether it’s ... a natural resistance to codifying something that seems to be in the process of developing. You don’t want to give something a wrong name before it’s really been born.... I think [First Nations writers] have an opportunity here with the influence of an oral aesthetic, to develop things that go beyond those genres, which are categories that are very much a result of a book culture.(163) Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations University of Toronto Press (U Toronto Press - via Crossref) Canadian Theatre Review 108 48 51 |
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The emergence of Native performance on Canadian stages in the late twentieth century is determined by some to be a “logical extension” of the practice of First Nations storytelling (Taylor 140). First Nations performances have certainly incorporated culturally specific aspects, and some tribes, like the Kwakiutl of British Columbia, have performed ritual dramas for hundreds of years. In an interview with Hartmut Lutz, however, playwright Daniel David Moses remains hesitant about linking structural categories like “drama” to First Nations performance. As Moses explains, I’m not sure whether it’s ... a natural resistance to codifying something that seems to be in the process of developing. You don’t want to give something a wrong name before it’s really been born.... I think [First Nations writers] have an opportunity here with the influence of an oral aesthetic, to develop things that go beyond those genres, which are categories that are very much a result of a book culture.(163) |
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