Robbie McCauley
A Journey Toward Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4553709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Becky Becker (Truman State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 519-542 |
| Publication date | 2000-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tj.2000.0100 |
| OpenAlex | W2061131469 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Actor, performance artist, director, collaborator and educator--all titles descriptive of Robbie McCauley whose 25-year body of work may best be described using her own performance vocabulary: movement. 3 McCauley explains, "[w]hen I say movement, I mean going from something blocked and unclear to something open and clearer so that we can move to change things." 4 From her early work on Off-Off Broadway and with Sedition Ensemble, to a recent Site-Specific 5 performance theatre piece, Shays' Rebellion, at Mount Holyoke College, McCauley's work represents a career-long struggle to move collaborators, audience members, her community--and herself--toward social change. McCauley has sustained a high level of social consciousness since her earliest work. During her years as an Off-Off Broadway actress, she supported herself as a social worker. As McCauley explains, "It was a job, but it [End Page 519] was also part of the sensibility I was starting to develop and hone. I wanted to be able to take in personal experiences that are the result of social conditions and be able to speak on them and I thought theatre could do that." 6 Eventually, this sensibility began to move its way into her performance work in a much more palpable way
Aesthetics · Alien · Art · Art history · Citizenship · Consciousness · Literature · Media studies · Mount · Movement (music · Performance art · Political science · Politics · Sedition · Sensibility · Sociology · Visual arts · Engineering · Irish and British Studies · Law · Psychology · Theater, Performance, and Music History · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |