Monique Mojica and Brenda Farnell. <i>Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Mapping Embodied Indigenous Performance</i>

This book details the process of play development for Monique Mojica’s Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way. The embodied, pictographic dramaturgical process was shaped by and reflected four traditional Guna aesthetic principles – duality and repetition, abstraction, metaphor, and multidimensionality. It offers an example of contemporary Indigenous theatre making.

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Modern Drama
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2024-12-01
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https://doi.org/10.3138/md-67-4-rev5
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Theatre and Performance Studies
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This book details the process of play development for Monique Mojica’s Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way. The embodied, pictographic dramaturgical process was shaped by and reflected four traditional Guna aesthetic principles – duality and repetition, abstraction, metaphor, and multidimensionality. It offers an example of contemporary Indigenous theatre making.

Modern DramaVol. 67(4)
University of Michigan (US)
Openalex Percentile: Top 61%
Theatre and Performance Studies
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