Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange

Introduction; M.Sell PART I: INTERSECTIONS Introduction; J.Harding From Italy and Russia to France and the U.S.: 'Fascist' Futurism and Balanchine's 'American' Ballet; P.Gaborik & A.Harris Confessions of a Failed Theatre Activist: Intercultural Encounters in Uganda and Rwanda; L.Edmondson   The Living Theatre's Arrested Development in Brazil: An Intersection of Activist Performances; C.Rosenthal PART II: TRANSLATIONS Introduction; J.Graham-Jones 'Powerful Disseminator of Radical Thought': Anarchism and the Introduction of Modern Western Theatre to China; S.Liu Translation, Typography, and the Avant-Garde's Impossible Text; S.Bay-Cheng Maoist Performatives: Milton Acorn and the Canadian Liberation Movement; A.Filewod PART III: DIVERGENCES Introduction; A.Filewod   Avant-Garde Becomes Nationalism: Immortalizing Nam June Paik in South Korea; E.Kim Lee The Avant-Garde and the Arab World; M.Sell The Avant-Garde of Necessity: The Protest Theatre Movement in Zimbabwe; P.Zenenga Punk Attitude: The Influence of the Avant-Garde and the Case of Ian Stuart Donaldson; G.White Afterword The Avant-Garde and Vector Studies: A Roundtable Index