Ric Knowles
Biographic Data
| ID | 131429 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ric Knowles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ric |
| FAMILY NAME | Knowles |
| SIGNATURE | KNOWLES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Five by Five
Festival Santiago a Mil
Making a CoMotion
The inaugural CoMotion: A Deaf and Disability Arts Festival at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre from 20 April to 1 May 2022, curated by blind theatre artist Alex Bulmer, presented six live and four digital performances, six visual arts exhibitions, and four panels and conversations, a Q&A with Bulmer, and an “every-body-can-dance” workshop. The festival featured blind, Deaf, and neurodivergent artists, amputees, stutterers, and those with chronic pa…
Acts of Faith
This essay argues that the dramatic oeuvre of mixed-race Asian Canadian playwright David Yee, which it surveys and classifies for the first time, constitutes a Canadian version of what Turkish born German director Shermin Langhoff calls “postmigrant theatre”—that is, theatre in which immigrant and racialized characters and performers are not limited to their ethnic roles as “others.” Yee’s body of work marks a departure from the drama of intergen…
The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals
The global rise of festival culture and experience has taken over that which used to merely be events. The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals provides an up-to-date, contextualized account of the worldwide reach and impact of the 'festivalization' of culture. It introduces new methodologies for the study of the global network of theatre production using digital humanities, raises questions about how alternative origin stories …
Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals
Progress
“Progress!” is a review of the Progress International Festival of Performance and Ideas at The Theatre Centre, Toronto, 30 January–15 February 2020, a serially curated live-arts festival produced by SummerWorks. The review pays particular attention to Certified by Jan Derbyshire and Cuckoo by Jaha Koo
Between the Flag and the Hungry Ghosts
“Between the Flag and the Hungry Ghosts” reviews the 2018 edition of the George Town Festival in Penang, Malaysia, probing the tension between the festival’s ideological role of promoting a governing vision of “one Malaysia” and the unruly and ungovernable nature of festivity
Canada Comes to Carifesta
This essay is an account of the author’s participation, as part of the Canadian delegation, in the fourteenth iteration of the Caribbean Festival of the Arts (CARIFESTA), held in Trinidad and Tobago in August 2019. The Canadian presence helped to realize the festival’s goals of Caribbean unification in ways that could perhaps only emerge from the diaspora
Uncle Tom's Cabins
Reviewed by: Uncle Tom's Cabins: the Transnational History of America's Most Mutable BOOK ed. by Tracy C. Davis and Stefka Mihaylova Ric Knowles UNCLE TOM'S CABINS: THE TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY OF AMERICA'S MOST MUTABLE BOOK. Edited by Tracy C. Davis and Stefka Mihaylova. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018; pp. 414. There is a transit stop on Berlin's U-Bahn system called Onkel Toms Hütte. The station is named after a district, a street, …
Festivalizing Down Under
Festivalizing Down Under:Unsettling the Contact Zone Ric Knowles (bio) Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand are key contact zones between the Global North and South. Geographically located in the Southern Hemisphere, their dominant, settler populations are culturally of the North, and their major theatre festivals have been struggling with this fact in Australia since the repeal of the terra nullius policy in 1992, and in Aotearoa since the Treaty …
Arab Theatre Festival
Reviewed by: Arab Theatre Festival Ric Knowles ARAB THEATRE FESTIVAL. Tunis, Tunisia. January 11-16, 2018. During the question period at the conference on "Authority and Knowledge in the Theatre" that was part of the tenth annual Arab Theatre Festival in Tunis in January 2018, one of the delegates paraphrased Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's 2008 address to the Arab League. "The only thing that brings us together [as Arabs]," the delegate [End Pag…
Festivals
Festivals:What Good Are They? What Are They Good at? The Case of Edinburgh 2017 Ric Knowles The seventieth-anniversary incarnation of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) in 2017 was, as far as theatre went, neither as international nor as festive as might have been expected. The Edinburgh Fringe, founded in the same year as an open-access alternative to the EIF, was, in spite of its anarchic feel on the streets as spectators elbowed past w…
Performing the Intercultural City
In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto—a representative global city in this multicultural country—stages diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. The book begins with a theoretical introduction to theatrical interculturalism. Subsequent chapters outline the historical and political context within which intercult…
Embodying Black Experience
Reviewed by: Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body Ric Knowles Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body. By Harvey Young. Theory/Text/Performance Series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010; pp. 264. $80.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. After a brief exegesis of Frantz Fanon's "Look, a Negro!" from Black Skin, White Masks, Harvey Young's Embodying Black Experience opens with …
City/Stage/Globe
Reviewed by: City/Stage/Globe: Performance and Space in Shakespeare’s London Ric Knowles City/Stage/Globe: Performance and Space in Shakespeare’s London. By D. J. Hopkins. Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series. New York: Routledge, 2007; pp. 250. $100.00 cloth. D.J. Hopkins’s City/Stage/Globe traces the mutually constitutive nature of the three terms of its title through an evolutionary shift in the understanding of London’s urban space i…
Vital signs
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
This book offers a comprehensive and lively introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature. Addressing traditional assumptions and current issues, contributors pay attention to the social, political and economic developments that have informed literary events. Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, and the emergen…
Feminist Memorializing and Cultural Countermemory
Festivalizing Down Under
Festivalizing Down Under:Unsettling the Contact Zone Ric Knowles (bio) Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand are key contact zones between the Global North and South. Geographically located in the Southern Hemisphere, their dominant, settler populations are culturally of the North, and their major theatre festivals have been struggling with this fact in Australia since the repeal of the terra nullius policy in 1992, and in Aotearoa since the Treaty …
Feminist Memorializing and Cultural Countermemory
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
This book offers a comprehensive and lively introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature. Addressing traditional assumptions and current issues, contributors pay attention to the social, political and economic developments that have informed literary events. Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, and the emergen…
Vital signs
City/Stage/Globe
Reviewed by: City/Stage/Globe: Performance and Space in Shakespeare’s London Ric Knowles City/Stage/Globe: Performance and Space in Shakespeare’s London. By D. J. Hopkins. Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory Series. New York: Routledge, 2007; pp. 250. $100.00 cloth. D.J. Hopkins’s City/Stage/Globe traces the mutually constitutive nature of the three terms of its title through an evolutionary shift in the understanding of London’s urban space i…
Embodying Black Experience
Reviewed by: Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body Ric Knowles Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body. By Harvey Young. Theory/Text/Performance Series. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2010; pp. 264. $80.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. After a brief exegesis of Frantz Fanon's "Look, a Negro!" from Black Skin, White Masks, Harvey Young's Embodying Black Experience opens with …
Performing the Intercultural City
In 1971, Canada became the first country to adopt an official policy of multiculturalism. Performing the Intercultural City explores how Toronto—a representative global city in this multicultural country—stages diversity through its many intercultural theater companies and troupes. The book begins with a theoretical introduction to theatrical interculturalism. Subsequent chapters outline the historical and political context within which intercult…
Festivals
Festivals:What Good Are They? What Are They Good at? The Case of Edinburgh 2017 Ric Knowles The seventieth-anniversary incarnation of the Edinburgh International Festival (EIF) in 2017 was, as far as theatre went, neither as international nor as festive as might have been expected. The Edinburgh Fringe, founded in the same year as an open-access alternative to the EIF, was, in spite of its anarchic feel on the streets as spectators elbowed past w…
Arab Theatre Festival
Reviewed by: Arab Theatre Festival Ric Knowles ARAB THEATRE FESTIVAL. Tunis, Tunisia. January 11-16, 2018. During the question period at the conference on "Authority and Knowledge in the Theatre" that was part of the tenth annual Arab Theatre Festival in Tunis in January 2018, one of the delegates paraphrased Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's 2008 address to the Arab League. "The only thing that brings us together [as Arabs]," the delegate [End Pag…
The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals
The global rise of festival culture and experience has taken over that which used to merely be events. The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals provides an up-to-date, contextualized account of the worldwide reach and impact of the 'festivalization' of culture. It introduces new methodologies for the study of the global network of theatre production using digital humanities, raises questions about how alternative origin stories …
Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals
Progress
“Progress!” is a review of the Progress International Festival of Performance and Ideas at The Theatre Centre, Toronto, 30 January–15 February 2020, a serially curated live-arts festival produced by SummerWorks. The review pays particular attention to Certified by Jan Derbyshire and Cuckoo by Jaha Koo
Between the Flag and the Hungry Ghosts
“Between the Flag and the Hungry Ghosts” reviews the 2018 edition of the George Town Festival in Penang, Malaysia, probing the tension between the festival’s ideological role of promoting a governing vision of “one Malaysia” and the unruly and ungovernable nature of festivity
Canada Comes to Carifesta
This essay is an account of the author’s participation, as part of the Canadian delegation, in the fourteenth iteration of the Caribbean Festival of the Arts (CARIFESTA), held in Trinidad and Tobago in August 2019. The Canadian presence helped to realize the festival’s goals of Caribbean unification in ways that could perhaps only emerge from the diaspora
Uncle Tom's Cabins
Reviewed by: Uncle Tom's Cabins: the Transnational History of America's Most Mutable BOOK ed. by Tracy C. Davis and Stefka Mihaylova Ric Knowles UNCLE TOM'S CABINS: THE TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY OF AMERICA'S MOST MUTABLE BOOK. Edited by Tracy C. Davis and Stefka Mihaylova. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018; pp. 414. There is a transit stop on Berlin's U-Bahn system called Onkel Toms Hütte. The station is named after a district, a street, …
Festivalizing Down Under
Festivalizing Down Under:Unsettling the Contact Zone Ric Knowles (bio) Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand are key contact zones between the Global North and South. Geographically located in the Southern Hemisphere, their dominant, settler populations are culturally of the North, and their major theatre festivals have been struggling with this fact in Australia since the repeal of the terra nullius policy in 1992, and in Aotearoa since the Treaty …
Acts of Faith
This essay argues that the dramatic oeuvre of mixed-race Asian Canadian playwright David Yee, which it surveys and classifies for the first time, constitutes a Canadian version of what Turkish born German director Shermin Langhoff calls “postmigrant theatre”—that is, theatre in which immigrant and racialized characters and performers are not limited to their ethnic roles as “others.” Yee’s body of work marks a departure from the drama of intergen…
Making a CoMotion
The inaugural CoMotion: A Deaf and Disability Arts Festival at Toronto’s Harbourfront Centre from 20 April to 1 May 2022, curated by blind theatre artist Alex Bulmer, presented six live and four digital performances, six visual arts exhibitions, and four panels and conversations, a Q&A with Bulmer, and an “every-body-can-dance” workshop. The festival featured blind, Deaf, and neurodivergent artists, amputees, stutterers, and those with chronic pa…
Five by Five
Festival Santiago a Mil
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