Power and privilege in neoliberal perspective: the Laboratory for global performance and politics at Georgetown university. Issue 3 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Majid, Asif
• Is Part Of: Research in drama education. Volume 24:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 267
• Page End: 283
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: Performance -- politics -- interdisciplinary -- collaboration; Drama in education -- Periodicals; Drama -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 792.071
• DOI: 10.1080/13569783.2019.1618704
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1356-9783

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics at Georgetown University is an interdisciplinary endeavour operating at the intersection of theatre and international relations. It develops new work; presents global performance; establishes dynamic networks of young and established artists; and cultivates diverse community and financial partnerships. Interviews with Lab staff, archival material, and the author's experience indicate that The Lab functions both as a symbiotic performance-politics relationship that leverages locally voiced performance to enliven global political issues and as a necessary response to a major research institution's neoliberal formations, formations that it seeks to sidestep as much as possible, despite being imbricated within them.