Performing with the Dead

Trances and Traces

Christopher ‘Kit’ Danowski

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Intellect Books
07 June 2024

Performance art; Other non-Christian religions

A methodology for incorporating concepts drawn from ancestor trance in Afrolatinx ritual into Western theatrical training.

In this book, Kit Danowski constructs a methodology called kanga (from the Bantu for tying and untying), using three methods based on aspects of the Afrolatinx ritual and modified for performance contexts: spell, charm, and trance. This methodology enacts and complicates distinctions between performance and ritual, serving as a contribution to respectful and responsible intercultural performance practices. The methodology is bricoleur, drawing from ethnography, psychoanalytic theory, and phenomenology. Kanga in practice leads to a state of consciousness that Danowski calls hauntological. This borrows from Derrida but is redefined to refer to the study of haunted states of consciousness, where reality is coconstituted by the living and the dead and ancestral spirits are invoked to do the work once reserved for characters.

By: Christopher ‘Kit’ Danowski
Imprint: Intellect Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 735g
ISBN: 9781835950197
ISBN 10: 1835950191
Pages: 314
Publication Date: 07 June 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One: Theatre and the Dead: Histories and Contexts Chapter Two: Theatre of the Dead: Ritual for Performance Chapter Three: Theatre with the Dead: Theory into Practice Chapter Four: Theatre and the Living Dead: Kanga in Action Chapter Five: The Monsters: Sea Monster Cycle Texts Conclusion Bibliography

Dr. Christopher (Kit) Danowski (xe/xem) has an MFA in Playwriting and Fiction from Arizona State University, and a PhD through the University of Plymouth (U.K.) and Transart Institute for Creative Practice (Berlin). Danowski has presented performance work and spoken word in Phoenix, Brooklyn, Berlin, Krakow, Seattle, Minneapolis, and Brighton, among other places.