53rd state press chicago il (21 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In a roving, shimmering conversation that took place in May 2021, scholar, poet, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs and playwright, songwriter, performance artist, and educator Daniel Alexander Jones discuss love as a foundational principle of artistic practice and societal change. Reflecting on Love Like Light, Daniel Alexander Jones's collection of seven plays and performance texts (published by 53rd State in July 2021), DAJ and APG illuminate the ways in which an attention to care, community, nuance, invitation, perceptual particularities, and embodied conditions can resist the profoundly extractive context in which life is lived and art is made. As they discuss the work of Audre Lorde, Billie Holiday, Beah Richards, Bayard Rustin, and Malcolm X, as well as that of DAJ's grandma Daisy Mae and APG's grandmother, aunt, and niece, DAJ and APG propose that love, like light, suffuses everything, and that love, like light, creates a field in which transformation, justice, healing, and radical beauty are not just possiblethey are already, now. A companion volume to Love Like Light that features a book-length conversation between Daniel Alexander Jones and poet, scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs about Daniel's work. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a recipient of Yale's Wyndham-Campbell Prize. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. SKiNFoLK: An American Show by Jillian Walker Is a quilted ritual of liberation, bearing witness to the playwright-performers identity, heritage and legacy as a Black woman in this America. This ancestor-revering epic collides with blues, jazz, neosoul, pop, rock, and spiritual Black legacies. What will you see in the archive? Who will you meet? What is down at the root? What color is the sky, again? A wide-sweeping concert/play structured in seven movements that explores the questions and limits (?) of blackness, performance, and country in a sensuous and reflective cabaret experience. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. bull-jean & dem/dey back collects two performance/novels centering Sharon Bridgforths southern-Black-butch-sheroe, bull-jean.First published by RedBone Press in 1998, the Lambda Literary Award-winning the bull-jean stories chronicles the course of lovve returning in the Life-times of bull-dog-jean. Set in the rural 1920s south, the bull-jean stories is an act of griot-anthropology, remembering the ancestor we never knew but always knew we neededthe raucous, sweet-talking, heart-aching womn-lovvn-womn bull-dog-jean and the fierce and beautiful community that surrounds her.Twenty-two years later, bull-dog-jean returns in bull-jean/we wake. Grieving the loss of their elders, seeking healing, the Narrator calls forward bull-jean. Through a series of dreams, porch prayers, and visitations from cussing conjurers, Black Mermaids, children that fly, and shape-shifting ole folk, bull-jean and dem guide the Narrator towards a realization of the sustaining power of love, memory, community, ritual, and spiritual binding. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. For each edition of the Occasional, guest editors invite artists, thinkers, and members of our community to consider questions that we have and topics that move us. For Occasional No. 3, playwrights Lucas Baisch and Emma Horwitz have invited Liza Birkenmeier, Theresa Buchheister, Lisa D'Amour, dots, Diane Exavier, Zoe Geltman, Miguel Gutierrez, nazareth hassan, Orlando Hernandez, Julia Izumi, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Kate Kremer, Lisa Kron, Shayan Lotfi, Sam Max, Kate McGee, Eli Nixon, Marissa Joyce Stamps, reid tang, Jesus I. Valles, Noah Weinman, and Bailey Williams to respond to the question, What are you obsessed with? And how are you holding it? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Context, Synecdoche, Homonym, and Polyseme live in a house laden with clutter, but Etymology keeps bringing new deliveries for Context: a blank book, a conversation with the dentist, a key. Homonym and Polyseme sort and rearrange; they send what they can to the cloud (via helium balloon); occasionally they smuggle out old things, lost for years, and new things they know Context will never need. Synecdoche tries to hold it all together and sings. Meanwhile, Context wonders whether listening is work-if it is labor, if it matters, and if what matters (if it matters) can be retrieved from the ever-accumulating material of living. meronymy is a kaleidoscopic, audiovisual performance-portrait of the technologies, ancient and modern, by which we cling to what we might otherwise forget. With wry tenderness and formal dexterity, Jendrzejewski builds a space in which to reckon with memory, loss, intrusion, and overflow amidst the cacophonic practice of living in language together. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. La Guia de campo de iLANDing contiene 75partituras para la investigacion de espacios urbanos que fueron desarrolladas alo largo de diez anos por el Laboratorio Interdisciplinario de Arte, Naturalezay Danza. En estos laboratorios, artistas y cientificos generaban metodologiashibridas para un acercamiento a la ecologia urbana fundamentado en la danza ydisenado para cualquiera que desee experimentar la incursion de la naturalezaen la ciudad o descentrar los metodos antropocentricos habituales de navegarpor el mundo. Lleva una introduccion de la fundadora de iLAND, Jennifer Monson. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. By combining literary and dramatic narrative with eye-witness accounts of Sasquatch encounters culled from the internet, The Securely Conferred, Vouchsafed Keepsakes of Maery S. reinventsas many versions of the Frankenstein author Mary Shelley as there aredefinitions of the word Gothic. In this work, a string of financial,maternal, and familial misfortunes causes Shelleyreferred to in thisproduction as Maery S.to spawn a monstrous creative expression, whichtakes on its own life and violent history. Maery cannot help but fall in love with her Monster, only to see it collected and imprisoned bycharitable funding at a mandatory artists residency. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In this collection of interviews conducted between 2019-2021 with New York theater artists who have spent their lives working in and inventing the avant-garde, playwright Sara Farrington brings to light a series of "lost conversations" about class, race, difficulty, endurance, and privilege in the New York avant-garde of the past fifty years, as well as conversations about the ephemerality, the always-about-to-be-lostness of the medium itself. Featuring conversations with Joanne Akalaitis, Anne Bogart, Lee Breuer, Ping Chong, Richard Foreman, Andre Gregory, Deborah Hay, Bill T. Jones, Adrienne Kennedy, Lola Pashalinksi, Jennifer Tipton, Kate Valk, Mac Wellman, and Robert Wilson, The Lost Conversation is also a record both of the avant-garde's past and of its urgent present. A collection of interviews with New York theater artists who have spent their lives working in and inventing the avant-garde. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Trainedin classical piano and Marxism and raised on jazz, gospel, pop, hiphop, and Black revolutionary politics, Pulitzer Prize finalist EisaDaviss plays are marked by her stunning intimacy with the praxis ofmusic alongside radical change. In Angela's Mixtape, time shifts like a mixtape, and like a mixtape, the play is both a memoir and a giftfor us, of course, and for Daviss aunt, activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis, under whose tutelage Davis reads Das Kapital andlearns to drive stick and hack her own way toward inheriting her legacy. In The History of Light,Davis counterpoints the intertwining fates of two couples underracialized pressures a generation apart. Lush with the sound of thegrand piano, The History of Light is a study in black andwhite, love and alienation. Underlying the political clarity and formalvirtuosity of Daviss writing are the unexpected crackles of a voicewarming up, the crunchiness of missed notes. Because for an artistconcerned, like Davis, with how we become who we are and might be, erroris a necessary instrumentmaybe the sounding weight. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A unique text about dance-making from a celebrated choreographer and dancer known for her work in modern dance and immersive theater. Featuring whimsical illustrations, this volume takes the form of an alphabet book, and is composed with the same virtuosic economy and exactitude as Parsons dances, acting simultaneously as primer, theory, riddle, and prompt for the creative mind. A unique text about dance-making from a choreographer and dancer known for her work in modern dance and immersive theater. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Collecting Daniel Alexander Jones's plays and performance texts Bel Canto, Black Light, Blood:Shock:Boogie, clayangels, Duat, Phoenix Fabrik, and The Book of Daniel, this volume offers a panoramic view of Jones's shifting, glimmering, transformational body of work. Each play a provocation to the possibility of a more just world with love as civic practice at its center, Jones's writing moves with lithe and associative grace through histories personal, political, cosmological, and sublime. A reunion not only of Jones's revolutionary work in the course of twenty-five years in the avant-gardes of New York, Austin, and Minneapolis, among others, Love Like Light is also a reunion of collaborators and friends, featuring essays by Vicky Boone, Jacques Colimon, Eisa Davis, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, korde arrington tuttle, Aaron Landsman, Deborah Paredez, and Shay Youngblood and an interview with Faye Price.Awarded the 2021 PEN/Laura Pels Theater Award for his expansive, multidisciplinary, radical body of work, Jones has, in the words of judges Jeremy O. Harris, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, and Leigh Silverman, continued perfecting a dramaturgy all his own based in the traditions of Africana studies, performance studies, queer theory, and mysticism, challenging established traditions while creating space for audiences to ponder what theater is and who it is for.A companion volume, Particle and Wave, features a book-length conversation between Daniel Alexander Jones and poet, scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs about Love Like Light and the way that love, like light, suffuses everything and is the condition and power of change in the world. A collected volume from an acclaimed writer and performer whose work has roots in the Black American and Queer Performance traditions, and explores ideas of the Afromystical. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Futures is an anthology of six new plays written in Arabic, published here in English translation. Including five plays selected from over 500 submissions to Masrah Ensembles 2021 Open Call and one by Masrah Ensembles former playwright-in-residence, these six textsby Yasser Abu Shaqra, Wael Kadour, Arze Khodr, Rim Mejdi, Nasr Sami, and Leila Toubelrepresent a diverse array of voices and styles, and push at the limits of theatrical form and public discourse. The volume features an introduction by theater writer/director/academic Hanan Kassab Hassan along with short introductions to the plays by US-based playwrights Lucas Baisch, Jess Barbagallo, Jordan Baum, Agnes Borinsky, Nazareth Hassan, and Haruna Lee.Sometimes We Remember by Arze Khodr (Lebanon). Translated by Clem Naylor, with an introduction by Nazareth Hassan.A Fornesian diamond of a play that unfolds in a series of seemingly simple domestic and urban scenes, about the lure of dwelling in memories of war.Braveheart by Wael Kadour (Syria). Translated by Clem Naylor, with an introduction by Lucas Baisch.A play about a group of friends writing a novel together, in which relationships collapse and get rebuilt through the act of writing. How do you move out of a state of war into a time of presumed stability?Ruby by Leila Toubel (Tunisia). Translated by Hisham Ben Khamsa, with an introduction by Haruna Lee.A rhythmic monologue, lyrical and dark, in which a woman unpacks a life of misogyny and violence as she prepares to meet her daughter for the first time.Uprooting; Or, the Cat and Dog Pizza Chapters by Nasr Sami (Tunisia). Translated by Jonas Elbousty, with an introduction by Jess Barbagallo.A dizzying trip into a world of violence and distortion, by way of the Biblical Song of Songs. In which cats are nailed to walls, and two lovers seek to become one.Eternity by Rim Mejdi (Morocco). Translated by Caline Nasrallah, with an introduction by Jordan Baum.A young woman is stuck on a train, and just wants to get off. An allegorical knot of a play that moves between liveness and video, vernacular and formal Arabic, with interludes from Rimbaud's French.Left Out Gone Bad by Yasser Abu Shaqra (Palestine/Syria), with an introduction by Agnes Borinsky.A Syrian family arrives as refugees in Europe, where life does not resemble what they imagined. Over the course of the play, each member of the family finds themselves backed deeper and deeper into a corner, and safety proves a devils bargain. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. In a roving, shimmering conversation that took place in May 2021, scholar, poet, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs and playwright, songwriter, performance artist, and educator Daniel Alexander Jones discuss love as a foundational principle of artistic practice and societal change. Reflecting on Love Like Light, Daniel Alexander Jones's collection of seven plays and performance texts (published by 53rd State in July 2021), DAJ and APG illuminate the ways in which an attention to care, community, nuance, invitation, perceptual particularities, and embodied conditions can resist the profoundly extractive context in which life is lived and art is made. As they discuss the work of Audre Lorde, Billie Holiday, Beah Richards, Bayard Rustin, and Malcolm X, as well as that of DAJ's grandma Daisy Mae and APG's grandmother, aunt, and niece, DAJ and APG propose that love, like light, suffuses everything, and that love, like light, creates a field in which transformation, justice, healing, and radical beauty are not just possiblethey are already, now. A companion volume to Love Like Light that features a book-length conversation between Daniel Alexander Jones and poet, scholar, and activist Alexis Pauline Gumbs about Daniel's work. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a recipient of Yale's Wyndham-Campbell Prize. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. bull-jean & dem/dey back collects two performance/novels centering Sharon Bridgforths southern-Black-butch-sheroe, bull-jean.First published by RedBone Press in 1998, the Lambda Literary Award-winning the bull-jean stories chronicles the course of lovve returning in the Life-times of bull-dog-jean. Set in the rural 1920s south, the bull-jean stories is an act of griot-anthropology, remembering the ancestor we never knew but always knew we neededthe raucous, sweet-talking, heart-aching womn-lovvn-womn bull-dog-jean and the fierce and beautiful community that surrounds her.Twenty-two years later, bull-dog-jean returns in bull-jean/we wake. Grieving the loss of their elders, seeking healing, the Narrator calls forward bull-jean. Through a series of dreams, porch prayers, and visitations from cussing conjurers, Black Mermaids, children that fly, and shape-shifting ole folk, bull-jean and dem guide the Narrator towards a realization of the sustaining power of love, memory, community, ritual, and spiritual binding. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. SKiNFoLK: An American Show by Jillian Walker Is a quilted ritual of liberation, bearing witness to the playwright-performers identity, heritage and legacy as a Black woman in this America. This ancestor-revering epic collides with blues, jazz, neosoul, pop, rock, and spiritual Black legacies. What will you see in the archive? Who will you meet? What is down at the root? What color is the sky, again? A wide-sweeping concert/play structured in seven movements that explores the questions and limits (?) of blackness, performance, and country in a sensuous and reflective cabaret experience. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Trainedin classical piano and Marxism and raised on jazz, gospel, pop, hiphop, and Black revolutionary politics, Pulitzer Prize finalist EisaDaviss plays are marked by her stunning intimacy with the praxis ofmusic alongside radical change. In Angela's Mixtape, time shifts like a mixtape, and like a mixtape, the play is both a memoir and a giftfor us, of course, and for Daviss aunt, activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis, under whose tutelage Davis reads Das Kapital andlearns to drive stick and hack her own way toward inheriting her legacy. In The History of Light,Davis counterpoints the intertwining fates of two couples underracialized pressures a generation apart. Lush with the sound of thegrand piano, The History of Light is a study in black andwhite, love and alienation. Underlying the political clarity and formalvirtuosity of Daviss writing are the unexpected crackles of a voicewarming up, the crunchiness of missed notes. Because for an artistconcerned, like Davis, with how we become who we are and might be, erroris a necessary instrumentmaybe the sounding weight. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. …

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. La Guia de campo de iLANDing contiene 75partituras para la investigacion de espacios urbanos que fueron desarrolladas alo largo de diez anos por el Laboratorio Interdisciplinario de Arte, Naturalezay Danza. En estos laboratorios, artistas y cientificos generaban metodologiashibridas para un acercamiento a la ecologia urbana fundamentado en la danza ydisenado para cualquiera que desee experimentar la incursion de la naturalezaen la ciudad o descentrar los metodos antropocentricos habituales de navegarpor el mundo. Lleva una introduccion de la fundadora de iLAND, Jennifer Monson. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. A unique text about dance-making from a celebrated choreographer and dancer known for her work in modern dance and immersive theater. Featuring whimsical illustrations, this volume takes the form of an alphabet book, and is composed with the same virtuosic economy and exactitude as Parsons dances, acting simultaneously as primer, theory, riddle, and prompt for the creative mind. A unique text about dance-making from a choreographer and dancer known for her work in modern dance and immersive theater. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: Good+. 7.25 X 0.75 X 9 inches; 247 pages; a couple of very minor, faint smudges on the top exterior edge of textblock. Some sticker residue on spine. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be carefully cushioned in bubble wrap and securely boxed. All orders ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. 1st Edition (Unstated); No Printing Stated.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. This volume collects two plays by Erin Courtney, A Map of Virtue and Black Cat Lost. The Obie Awardwinning Map is a symmetrical play: part interview, part comedy, part horror story. Courtney's plays unfold in a delicate dance of pattern and narration; they ring out their images and meanings as a sequence of bells: complicating, harmonizing, and remapping their senses as they run their idiosyncratic course. Two plays from gifted playwright Erin Courtney, including the acclaimed, Obie award-winning A Map of Virtue. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Futures is an anthology of six new plays written in Arabic, published here in English translation. Including five plays selected from over 500 submissions to Masrah Ensembles 2021 Open Call and one by Masrah Ensembles former playwright-in-residence, these six textsby Yasser Abu Shaqra, Wael Kadour, Arze Khodr, Rim Mejdi, Nasr Sami, and Leila Toubelrepresent a diverse array of voices and styles, and push at the limits of theatrical form and public discourse. The volume features an introduction by theater writer/director/academic Hanan Kassab Hassan along with short introductions to the plays by US-based playwrights Lucas Baisch, Jess Barbagallo, Jordan Baum, Agnes Borinsky, Nazareth Hassan, and Haruna Lee.Sometimes We Remember by Arze Khodr (Lebanon). Translated by Clem Naylor, with an introduction by Nazareth Hassan.A Fornesian diamond of a play that unfolds in a series of seemingly simple domestic and urban scenes, about the lure of dwelling in memories of war.Braveheart by Wael Kadour (Syria). Translated by Clem Naylor, with an introduction by Lucas Baisch.A play about a group of friends writing a novel together, in which relationships collapse and get rebuilt through the act of writing. How do you move out of a state of war into a time of presumed stability?Ruby by Leila Toubel (Tunisia). Translated by Hisham Ben Khamsa, with an introduction by Haruna Lee.A rhythmic monologue, lyrical and dark, in which a woman unpacks a life of misogyny and violence as she prepares to meet her daughter for the first time.Uprooting; Or, the Cat and Dog Pizza Chapters by Nasr Sami (Tunisia). Translated by Jonas Elbousty, with an introduction by Jess Barbagallo.A dizzying trip into a world of violence and distortion, by way of the Biblical Song of Songs. In which cats are nailed to walls, and two lovers seek to become one.Eternity by Rim Mejdi (Morocco). Translated by Caline Nasrallah, with an introduction by Jordan Baum.A young woman is stuck on a train, and just wants to get off. An allegorical knot of a play that moves between liveness and video, vernacular and formal Arabic, with interludes from Rimbaud's French.Left Out Gone Bad by Yasser Abu Shaqra (Palestine/Syria), with an introduction by Agnes Borinsky.A Syrian family arrives as refugees in Europe, where life does not resemble what they imagined. Over the course of the play, each member of the family finds themselves backed deeper and deeper into a corner, and safety proves a devils bargain. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…