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Book chapter: Interview with Nurlan Asanbekov
Cite this chapter: Breed, A. (2018). Interview with Nurlan Asanbekov. In: Breed, A., Prentki, T. (eds) Performance and Civic Engagement. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66517-7_17 Abstract Nurlan Asanbekov was the director of Kyrgyz State Theatre and trained at the Russian Theatre Academy of Arts in Moscow. Asanbekov founded Sakhna Theatre in 2002. The artists work and... - Book chapter
Book chapter: Performance and Civic Engagement
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Book chapter: Performance, Place and Culture for Civic Engagement in Kyrgyzstan
Cite this chapter: Breed, A. (2018). Performance, Place and Culture for Civic Engagement in Kyrgyzstan. In: Breed, A., Prentki, T. (eds) Performance and Civic Engagement. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66517-7_14 Abstract: This chapter will explore the Youth Theatre for Peace (YTP) project in relation to environmental aesthetics and socially engaged participatory practices towards tolerance building in... - Book chapter
Book chapter: Theatre for Survival: Art of Creation and Protection (Kubunda)
Cite this chapter: Breed, A., Mukaka, A. (2016). Theatre for Survival: Art of Creation and Protection (Kubunda). In: Duggan, P., Peschel, L. (eds) Performing (for) Survival. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137454270_3 Abstract: Tutsi artists-in-exile sought to use performance as a mode of cultural survival, both to preserve Tutsi culture in the countries of refuge and to... - Book chapter
Book chapter: Resistant Acts in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Cite this chapter: Breed, A. (2015). Resistant Acts in Post-Genocide Rwanda. In: Flynn, A., Tinius, J. (eds) Anthropology, Theatre, and Development. Anthropology, Change and Development. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137350602_6 Abstract: This chapter will analyse how micro and macro socio-political dynamics are articulated in the gacaca courts used to adjudicate crimes linked to the 1994 genocide against Tutsi,... - Book chapter
Book chapter: Gender-based Violence and Human Rights: Participatory Theatre in Post-Genocide Rwanda
Cite this chapter: Breed, A. (2015). Gender-based Violence and Human Rights: Participatory Theatre in Post-Genocide Rwanda. In: Luckhurst, M., Morin, E. (eds) Theatre and Human Rights after 1945. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362308_10 Abstract: During the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda over one million Tutsi and Hutu moderates were massacred, and an estimated 350,000... - Journal article
Journal article: Environmental aesthetics, social engagement and aesthetic experiences in Central Asia
Cite this article: Breed, A. (2015). Environmental aesthetics, social engagement and aesthetic experiences in Central Asia. Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 20(1), 87–99. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2014.986447 Abstract In this essay, I explore the Youth Theatre for Peace (YTP) project in relation to environmental aesthetics and engaged participatory practices towards tolerance building in Central... - Book chapter
Book chapter: Performing the Nation
Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation Abstract: A dance begins beneath the outstretched branches of the giant umunyinya tree in Rwanda. First there is drumming and clapping, then the lead dancers step into the center of the gathering. The dancing subsides and the gacaca court, the community hearings on the one hundred days of bloodshed known as the... - Book chapter
Book chapter: Discordant Narratives in Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts
Cite this chapter: Breed, A. (2012). Discordant Narratives in Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts. In: Campioni, M., Noack, P. (eds) Rwanda Fast Forward. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137265159_3 Abstract Gacaca was the post-genocide Rwandan government’s solution to address the mass participation of citizens in the genocide against Tutsi in 1994, with the mass participation of the population in... - Manuals and toolkits
Manuals and toolkits: Interactive Youth Theater (IYT): Strengthening Peace and Tolerance in Kyrgyzstan
This Interactive Youth Theater (IYT) manual was developed and adapted by Dr Ananda Breed for UNICEF based on the IREX/USAID funded Youth Theater for Peace Manual which has been used in Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. This manual has been adapted for the specific contexts of the IYT project ‘Interaction of young people across ethnic lines...