Finding Power in Pathos

By Alex Lyons¹
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¹ East 15 Acting School, University of Essex
Source: Obsessions of a Showwoman , pp 290-293
Publication Date: October 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/9781835950104_20
Language: English

In 2020, a group of emerging artists joined Carnesky's Radical Cabaret School; it was the peak of lockdown, when Covid had dominated our lives. Similar to processes and principles Carnesky employs in her own performance work, this course encouraged artists to create and develop work that sought to engage with contemporary politics whilst finding power in ones' identity. In particular, Carnesky's teachings and methodology of ‘finding power in pathos’ became a tool for understanding performance's impact and how its radical nature can foster shared identification, political transformation and community.

Keywords: Artist Development ; Breaking Taboos ; Collaboration ; Community ; Connection ; Contemporary Theatre ; Emerging Performers ; Feminist Theory ; Identity Politics ; Neurodivergence ; Performance Art ; Queer Theory ; Radical Cabaret ; Vaginas ; Vulvas

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References

Carnesky, M. (2020), ‘Trans-metaformism’, Carnesky's Radical Cabaret School [Recorded Lecture]. Session 3. Tramshed, 20 October, available at https://vimeo.com/468246310. Accessed 23 September 2022.
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Carnesky, M. (2020), ‘Trans-metaformism’, Carnesky's Radical Cabaret School [Recorded Lecture]. Session 3. Tramshed, 20 October, available at https://vimeo.com/468246310. Accessed 23 September 2022.
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Chatzichristodoulou, M. (2020), Live Art in the UK: Contemporary Performances of Precarity, London & New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, Kindle e-book.
[Google Scholar]
Oliver, D and Majumdar, S. (2022), ‘Dyspraxic approaches to teaching Live Art in a “neurodivergent”/”normodivergent” classroom’, in P. Whitfield (ed.), Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training: Teaching and Learning for Neuro and Physical Diversity, New York and Oxon: Taylor & Francis, pp. 217–31.
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