Narrative/Performance:
Cross-Cultural Encounters at APPEX
   
    Uttara Asha Coorlawala
Karen L. Ito
Garrett Kam
Mario Ontiveros
Marina Roseman
Karen Shimakawa
Peter Tokofsky
Ricardo D. Trimillos
Denise Uyehara
Kazuko Yamazaki
   
 
   
Judy Mitoma
Director, UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance Asia Pacific Performance Exchange (APPEX)

Ricardo D. Trimillos
APPEX writters Program Director

Anoosh Jorjorian
Editor		  
Contents  
  1. Introduction - Mitoma
  2. Taking Risks in Safe Spaces; Playing Safe in Risky Spaces, musings on writing about the APPEX experience- Trimillos

I - The Process

  1. APPEX - The National Context - Ito
  2. Cultural Differences and the Dynamics of Collaboration* - Ito
  3. Concluding Reflections: Core Values - Ito
  4. Reflections on the Art-Making Process at APPEX - Tokofsky
  5. Working-in-Common and Cross-Cultural Art Practices - Ontiveros
  6. Collision, Compromise, and Cohesion - Issues in the Process of Collaboration - Kam

II - Photographs

III - Intercultural Challenges
  1. Homelands and Crossroads - An experiment in Intercultural Collaboration - Roseman
  2. The Third Level, Where Kathakali and Performance Art Meet - Uyehara
  3. Understanding the Embodied Logic of Artistic Practice: A Key to Turning Difficult Moments into Creative Ones - Yamazaki

IV - Reflections on “Asianness”

  1. Loaded Images: Seeing and Being in “Fan Variations” - Karen Shimakawa
  2. Dancing Asianness at APPEX: Collaborative Structures - Coorlawala

Writers and Editors

Movies