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Project Summary
Introduction
Findings
Theater profiles, interviews, photo galleries, play excerpts, documentary
resource inventories, field notes by site visitors
Carpetbag Theatre Company, Knoxville,
Tennessee
Cornerstone Theater Company, Los
Angeles, California
The Dell'Arte Company, Blue Lake,
California
Jump-Start Performance Co., San
Antonio, Texas
Los Angeles Poverty Department, Los Angeles,
California
Teatro Pregones, South Bronx, New
York
Roadside Theater, Whitesburg, Kentucky
WagonBurner Theater Troop, Native America
Critical writing based in the case studies of "Performing Communities"
Cheerleader for the Revolution
Thoughts on Carpetbag Theater Company
By Ann Kilkelly (November 2002)
Love and Respect at Work
in the Creative Process
Thoughts on Cornerstone Theater Company
By Robert H. Leonard (November 2002)
Damn Good Theater – What
It Is and How To Get It In Blue Lake, California
Thoughts on the Dell’Arte Company
By Robert H. Leonard (November 2002)
Magic Glue
The Politics and Personality of Jump-Start
By Ann Kilkelly (November 2002)
Theater as an Act of Citizenship
Thoughts on the Los Angeles Poverty Department
By Robert H. Leonard (November 2002)
The Twin Rigors of Art and
Community, or Not the People Who Said Green
Thoughts on Teatro Pregones
By Robert H. Leonard (November 2002)
Little Epiphanies
Thoughts on Roadside Theater
By Ann Kilkelly (November 2002)
Laughing at the Edge
Thoughts on WagonBurner Theater Troop
By Ann Kilkelly (November 2002)
The Ecology of Theater-in-community:
A Field Theory
The relationship between organisms and their environment
By Jan Cohen-Cruz (November 2002)
Building the Creative
Class from the Grassroots
How community is built by the eight theaters in "Performing Communities"
By Linda Frye Burnham (November 2002)
Biographies of Key Project Personnel
Disclaimer, Copyright and Citation Information
Photo credit: César Rodríguez of Teatro Pregones in “Fables
of the Caribbean.” Photo by Ricky Flores
Support for the Grassroots Ensemble Theater Project was
provided by Art in the Public Interest, Virginia Tech ASPIRES program, the Nathan
Cummings Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Funding for the
Community Arts Network has been provided by the Nathan Cummings Foundation,
the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Virginia
Tech ASPIRES Program, the Virginia Tech Office of Outreach, the Virginia Tech
College of Arts and Sciences and Art in the Public Interest.
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