Thomas Riccio
Biographic Data
| ID | 211611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Riccio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Riccio |
| SIGNATURE | RICCIO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Associate Professor of Theatre at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Zhuiniu Water Buffalo Ritual of the Miao: Cultural Narrative Performed
The zhuiniu 椎牛 ritual is one of the most elaborate of the Miao people of western Hunan, China. Zhuiniu means "kill the buffalo with a spear" and traces its origins to the worship of spirits and natural elements. Sponsored by a family to repay the spirits, the ritual was a village-wide event that culminated with the sacrifice of a water buffalo and a community celebration. The zhuiniu, estimated to be several thousand years old, is rapidly vanishi…
Sophia Robot: An Emergent Ethnography
Since her creation in 2016, Sophia has become the world’s most recognized humanoid social robot. Gendered female by creator David Hanson, she is a harbinger of a tomorrow world that is here. She performs at events around the planet as a messenger, celebrity, and ambassador representing the human-technological future. Sophia is a symbol, and humans are witnesses to an origin story as much hers as it is our own
Huan Nuoyuan: Exorcism and Transformation in Miao Ritual Drama
Deep in the Wuling Mountains of southwest Hunan, China, a 3,000-year-old ritual, the huan nuoyuan, is performed by the Miao people. The elaborate event is the conclusion of many years of preparation; it evokes and embodies the mythical forces that are central to the worldview of the politically and ethnically marginalized Miao
Devising in Process (review)
Reviewed by: Devising in Process Thomas Riccio Devising in Process. Edited by Alex Mermikides and Jackie Smart. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010; pp. 208. Devising in Process is a welcome introductory examination of eight contemporary British theatre companies that create devised performance. This accessible and concise collection of essays, edited by Alex Mermikides and Jackie Smart, presents valuable insights into the vibrancy of alter…
African Theatre in Performance, A Festschrift in Honor of Martin Banham (review)
African Theatre in Performance is a festchrift in honor of Martin Banham, who helped develop the School of Drama at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria's leading university. His retirement after a long and fruitful academic career is the occasion for the collection. Banham, a white Englishman from Yorkshire, went to colonial Nigeria in 1956 as a young man to teach literature. The Nigeria he encountered was struggling for independence, with the Univ…
Tanzanian Theatre, From Marx to the Marketplace
This is one of two articles in this TDR about Tanzanian perfor-mance. Riccio asks, What has been the “journey of Tanzania” from tribalism through colonialism to Marxism, and then to capital-ism and globalization as represented in performance
Politics, Slapstick, and Zulus on Tour
Wearing an oversized sombrero and carrying the rhythm with cymbals, Yise Gasa announced to the curious, almost frightened faces that something quite out of the ordinary was about to happen. For the gathering section of our performance I wore a Roman helmet made originally for some forgotten production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and oversized hands of whitegloved foam to greet, wave, and attract people to our performance. Gasa and I roamed th…
Trickster by Trade: Thomas Riccio on Indigenous Theatre. An Interview
The scene is one of great incongruity. A white man, wearing a plastic Roman helmet and sporting huge white foam hands bounds into a group of black children in a squalid township in Natal, South Africa. He is a pied piper, leading them to an open space where a group of Zulu actors begins a performance that both recalls their cultural traditions and confronts their troubled present-day reality. Variations of this scene repeat in Zambia, and with th…
A Message from Eagle Mother: The Messenger's Feast of the Inupiat Eskimo
Sophia Robot: An Emergent Ethnography
Since her creation in 2016, Sophia has become the world’s most recognized humanoid social robot. Gendered female by creator David Hanson, she is a harbinger of a tomorrow world that is here. She performs at events around the planet as a messenger, celebrity, and ambassador representing the human-technological future. Sophia is a symbol, and humans are witnesses to an origin story as much hers as it is our own
A Message from Eagle Mother: The Messenger's Feast of the Inupiat Eskimo
Politics, Slapstick, and Zulus on Tour
Wearing an oversized sombrero and carrying the rhythm with cymbals, Yise Gasa announced to the curious, almost frightened faces that something quite out of the ordinary was about to happen. For the gathering section of our performance I wore a Roman helmet made originally for some forgotten production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, and oversized hands of whitegloved foam to greet, wave, and attract people to our performance. Gasa and I roamed th…
Trickster by Trade: Thomas Riccio on Indigenous Theatre. An Interview
The scene is one of great incongruity. A white man, wearing a plastic Roman helmet and sporting huge white foam hands bounds into a group of black children in a squalid township in Natal, South Africa. He is a pied piper, leading them to an open space where a group of Zulu actors begins a performance that both recalls their cultural traditions and confronts their troubled present-day reality. Variations of this scene repeat in Zambia, and with th…
Tanzanian Theatre, From Marx to the Marketplace
This is one of two articles in this TDR about Tanzanian perfor-mance. Riccio asks, What has been the “journey of Tanzania” from tribalism through colonialism to Marxism, and then to capital-ism and globalization as represented in performance
African Theatre in Performance, A Festschrift in Honor of Martin Banham (review)
African Theatre in Performance is a festchrift in honor of Martin Banham, who helped develop the School of Drama at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria's leading university. His retirement after a long and fruitful academic career is the occasion for the collection. Banham, a white Englishman from Yorkshire, went to colonial Nigeria in 1956 as a young man to teach literature. The Nigeria he encountered was struggling for independence, with the Univ…
Devising in Process (review)
Reviewed by: Devising in Process Thomas Riccio Devising in Process. Edited by Alex Mermikides and Jackie Smart. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010; pp. 208. Devising in Process is a welcome introductory examination of eight contemporary British theatre companies that create devised performance. This accessible and concise collection of essays, edited by Alex Mermikides and Jackie Smart, presents valuable insights into the vibrancy of alter…
Huan Nuoyuan: Exorcism and Transformation in Miao Ritual Drama
Deep in the Wuling Mountains of southwest Hunan, China, a 3,000-year-old ritual, the huan nuoyuan, is performed by the Miao people. The elaborate event is the conclusion of many years of preparation; it evokes and embodies the mythical forces that are central to the worldview of the politically and ethnically marginalized Miao
Sophia Robot: An Emergent Ethnography
Since her creation in 2016, Sophia has become the world’s most recognized humanoid social robot. Gendered female by creator David Hanson, she is a harbinger of a tomorrow world that is here. She performs at events around the planet as a messenger, celebrity, and ambassador representing the human-technological future. Sophia is a symbol, and humans are witnesses to an origin story as much hers as it is our own
Zhuiniu Water Buffalo Ritual of the Miao: Cultural Narrative Performed
The zhuiniu 椎牛 ritual is one of the most elaborate of the Miao people of western Hunan, China. Zhuiniu means "kill the buffalo with a spear" and traces its origins to the worship of spirits and natural elements. Sponsored by a family to repay the spirits, the ritual was a village-wide event that culminated with the sacrifice of a water buffalo and a community celebration. The zhuiniu, estimated to be several thousand years old, is rapidly vanishi…
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