Improvisation Methods And Practices In Southeast Asia
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Improvisation Methods and Practices in Southeast Asia
Moore, Burridge, and the contributors explore the multifaceted role of improvisation, from rehearsal to performance and teaching to learning within the Southeast Asian performing arts scene. They feature a vital overview of how contemporary Southeast Asian artists use improvisation in their practice through diverse theoretical perspectives, innovative methods, and idiosyncratic strategies. The book highlights the strength of improvisation as a connective tissue facilitating collaboration and interdisciplinarity across the performing arts. It shows how artists and practitioners navigate the dynamic landscape of Southeast Asian arts, blurring taxonomical boundaries to embrace change and innovation. From interrogative full-length chapters to insightful personal case narratives, each contribution showcases the practical application of improvisation in real-world projects. The chapters affirm improvisation as both a creative process and a performance strategy, unlocking new possibilities in performing arts and providing an inspired snapshot of contemporary Southeast Asian creative practice. With discourse extending beyond conventional disciplinary confines, this book is a valuable read for graduate and postgraduate students, educators, and researchers in diverse fields encompassing dance, music, theatre studies, performance studies, aesthetics, and interdisciplinary arts. It is also a viable resource for professionals in the performing arts industry as it provides invaluable insights into the transformative power of improvisation.
Improvisation Methods and Practices in Southeast Asia
This collection explores the multifaceted role of improvisation, from rehearsal to performance, teaching to learning within the Southeast Asian performing arts scene. It demonstrates how improvisation can be used in practice through diverse theoretical perspectives, innovative methods and idiosyncratic strategies.
Women's Agency and the State in Contemporary Brunei
This pioneering book presents a comprehensive overview of the role of women in Brunei’s economy, society and public domain, from the historical and contemporary perspective. Making an important contribution to the study of women in Asia by focusing on Brunei, a country with many distinctive features, including governance by an Islamic sultan, guidance by a national philosophy of ‘Malay Islamic Monarchy’, and a unique intermingling of Malay and Chinese traditions and practices. Featuring contributions by Brunei women academics based in local tertiary institutions, it portrays the lives of women’s in Brunei from their own perspective. It covers women’s agency through several lenses, including the growing digital activism on issues of sexual harassment, women’s empowerment, women entrepreneurship, agency in Chinese Bruneians’ contemporary literary narratives and the recent role of women in Islamic development in Brunei. Some of the challenges and concerns raised by the authors might have policy implications. Bringing detailed and insightful scholarship on issues and themes of local concerns with a Brunei perspective, this book will appeal to students and scholars of Women’s studies, Asian studies, Southeast Asian studies, and Islamic Studies.