Chapter Five. Affirming Connection: Pre-Show Artists’ Performance Texts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface: How to Use This Book vii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Part I: Framing the Work
6. Chapter One. Making Space: Producing the Austin Project 1
7. Chapter Two. Finding Voice: Anchoring the Austin Project’s Artistic Process 12
8. Part II: Working the Work: An Anthology of Austin Project Writings
9. Chapter Three. Polyphony: Writings by Ensemble Members 29
10. Chapter Four. Call and Response: Performance Pieces by Austin Project Guest Artists 154
11. Chapter Five. Affirming Connection: Pre-Show Artists’ Performance Texts 259
12. Chapter Six. Spoken-Word Orchestra: A Full Script from the Austin Project Jam Session, December 2005 273
13. Part III: The Work of Transformation
14. Chapter Seven. Transforming Practice: Artists, Activists, and Academics Working across Boundaries 323
15. Chapter Eight. Work of the Spirit: A Conversation with an Austin Project Elder 343
16. Chapter Nine. Narrating the Austin Project: The First Five Years 350
17. Notes 369
18. Index 373