Transforming gender scripts
Life after you just don't understand
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12370032 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daun Kendig (St. Cloud State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 197-210 |
| Publication date | 1997-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Text and Performance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1046-2937 • E-ISSN: 1479-5760 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10462939709366182 |
| OpenAlex | W1983697712 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
This paper examines how working collaboratively through improvisational performance offers a means of exploring the dominant culture's gender scripts and transforming them into scripts of possibility. Deborah Tannen's You Just Don't Understand offers useful examples of the dominant script, hut students need to realize they are not confined to these options. Augusto Boal's forum theatre provides a framework for disrupting dominant scripts and generating alternatives. Improvisation taps the reflexive power of performance to analyze and at times transform scripts from everyday life. The collaborative nature of this process both supports students in their attempts to try out other scripts and augments what any individual can understand or experience with the group's insight. The playful nature of the process allows students to "desacralize" the status quo, demonstrate the contingency of identity, discover and recreate themselves while transforming script possibilities
Aesthetics · Art · Contingency · Epistemology · Everyday life · Identity (music · Improvisation · Political science · Power (physics · Process (computing · Reflexivity · Scripting language · Social science · Sociology · Status quo · Visual arts · Artistic and Creative Research · Computer Science · Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies
The Wake of Imagination
You Just Don't Understand
Games for Actors and Non-Actors
Border Crossings
Toward an aesthetics of natural performance
Improvisation as a performance strategy for African‐based theatre
Personal narratives
Joint performance across cultures
Conversational dramatism and everyday life performance
Border Crossings
Telling the Told
That was my occupation
Right here is a good Christian lady
Body, Brain and Culture
The Interaction Order
Performance, Culture, and Identity
The Anthropology of Performance
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |