THE "PLACE: VISION AND VOICE" PROGRAM: POWER, AUTHENTICITY AND ETHICS
Community Arts Network
Stephani Etheridge Woodson, an assistant professor at Arizona State University?s Department of Theatre, where she teaches in the Theater for Youth MFA and PhD programs, writes this month for CAN about the experience of "Place: Vision and Voice," a community-based theater/performance residency program she founded at ASU in 2000. She focuses especially on the program's 2002-3 arts residency in the Gila River Indian Community and "The River People," an award-winning documentary video she made with Pima Indian teens and Megan Alrutz during the residency. This story is especially valuable as an accessible application of performance/cultural theory to an actual community arts residency ("messy, like life itself"), with references to theorists like Henry Giroux, bell hooks and Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard.
Essay on the Project
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