THE INTERPLAY PERFORMANCE PRACTICE: PLAY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN LATE CAPITALISM

dc.contributor.advisorFrederik, Laurieen_US
dc.contributor.authorDilliplane, Daniel Isaacen_US
dc.contributor.departmentTheatreen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-22T05:50:37Z
dc.date.available2016-06-22T05:50:37Z
dc.date.issued2016en_US
dc.description.abstractPractitioners of the performance form “InterPlay” utilize dance, storytelling and song to build community and generate social change. I elucidate how this community of practitioners conceptualizes “social change.” I argue that the InterPlay social movement organizes around the application of play to performances of self in everyday life. I explore how the InterPlay non-profit corporation, Body Wisdom Inc., employs this technique to address racial justice in its organizational practices. I also examine how practitioners understand their use of this performance play in places of work, concluding that—even in these endeavors—they see social change as a process immanent to both individual people and the systems they create, not as the intervention of an autonomous external power. Ultimately, I argue that, within late capitalism, play should no longer be conceptualized as an activity separate from everyday sociality but as an immanent process of change constitutive of a socioaesthetic domain.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2FB7S
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/18234
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledTheateren_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPerforming artsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledOrganizational behavioren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledInterPlayen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPlayen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSocial Movementen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTheatre for Social Changeen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTheatre of the Oppresseden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledWorken_US
dc.titleTHE INTERPLAY PERFORMANCE PRACTICE: PLAY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN LATE CAPITALISMen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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