The ancient avant garde

Name: The ancient avant garde
Uploaded: 2018-03-03T07:00:46+11:00
Channel: Robert Reid
Description: Witness Histories Part 2: Jacob Boehme talks to Robert Reid about 80,000 years of Indigenous performance history in Australia. Modernism? Post-dramatic theatre? What makes Europeans think that these are new ideas?

by Robert Reid March 3, 2018 0 comments

Part 2: Modernism? Post-dramatic theatre? What makes Europeans think that these are new ideas? Choreographer and creative director of the Yirramboi First Nations Festival Jacob Boehme talks to Robert Reid about 80,000 years of Indigenous performance history in Australia.

Part 1: 80,000 years of performance history: an overview
Witness Histories 0: An introduction. Theatre: Why do we care?

australian theatre history indigenous performance jacob boehme

Robert Reid

Robert Reid is co-editor and co-founder of Witness and runs our educational resources. He is a playwright, director and academic. His award-winning plays have been produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company and his own independent companies. He is artistic director of the games-based performance company, Pop Up Playground, and his Platform Paper on theatre and digital marketing was published by Currency Press in 2011. He recently completed his PhD in Australian Theatre History.

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