Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Introduction

Chapter 3 From Italy and Russia to France and the U.S.: “Fascist” Futurism and Balanchine’s “American” Ballet

Chapter 4 Confessions of a Failed Theatre Activist: Intercultural Encounters in Uganda and Rwanda

Chapter 5 The Living Theatre’s Arrested Development in Brazil: an Intersection of Activist Performances

Chapter 6 Introduction

Chapter 7 “Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought”: Anarchism and the Introduction of Modern Western Theatre to China

Chapter 8 Translation, Typography, and the Avant-Garde’s Impossible Text

Chapter 9 Maoist Performativities: Milton Acorn and the Canadian Liberation Movement

Chapter 10 Introduction

Chapter 11 Avant-Garde Becomes Nationalism: Immortalizing Nam June Paik in South Korea

Chapter 12 The Avant-Garde of Necessity: the Protest Theatre Movement in Zimbabwe

Chapter 13 The Ians in the Audience: Punk Attitude and the Influence of the Avant-Garde