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- The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals
- Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance
- The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts and Methods
- Part II International Festivals Around the Globe
- Chapter 5 European Festivals
- Chapter 6 International Theatre Festivals in the UK
- Chapter 7 Under the Radar Festival, New York
- Chapter 8 The Australian Festival Network
- Chapter 9 Theatre Festivals in Post-Arab Spring Countries
- Chapter 10 Staging East Africa through Global Exchange
- Chapter 11 The National Arts Festival in Grahamstown
- Chapter 12 Reckoning with Historical Conflicts in East Asian Theatre Festivals
- Chapter 13 Festivals in the Francophone World as Sites of Cultural Struggle
- Chapter 14 International Festivals in Latin America
- Chapter 15 RUTAS | ROUTES
- Appendix List of International Theatre, Performance, and Multi-arts Festivals
- Works Cited
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 15 - RUTAS | ROUTES
A Festival Commons of Hemispheric Interculturalidad
from Part II - International Festivals Around the Globe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2020
- The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals
- Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance
- The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Contexts and Methods
- Part II International Festivals Around the Globe
- Chapter 5 European Festivals
- Chapter 6 International Theatre Festivals in the UK
- Chapter 7 Under the Radar Festival, New York
- Chapter 8 The Australian Festival Network
- Chapter 9 Theatre Festivals in Post-Arab Spring Countries
- Chapter 10 Staging East Africa through Global Exchange
- Chapter 11 The National Arts Festival in Grahamstown
- Chapter 12 Reckoning with Historical Conflicts in East Asian Theatre Festivals
- Chapter 13 Festivals in the Francophone World as Sites of Cultural Struggle
- Chapter 14 International Festivals in Latin America
- Chapter 15 RUTAS | ROUTES
- Appendix List of International Theatre, Performance, and Multi-arts Festivals
- Works Cited
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
This chapter’s analysis of Aluna Theatre’s RUTAS and CAMINOS festivals in Toronto, Canada, examines the ways in which these grassroots festivals harness the power of an interactional, mass gathering to generate a ‘theatrical commons’ grounded in a heterogeneous, intercultural Americas. Since their inauguration in 2012, the festivals feature and foster co-productions with Latin American, Latinx, Indigenous, and Afro-Caribbean artists from across the Americas as a way of generating alternative producing structures to foster hemispheric work and, in turn, alternative genealogies of Canadian performance history. The ‘theatrical commons’ generated by the alternating biennials of RUTAS and CAMINOS produces new social relations grounded in interculturalization rather than internationalization, offering a model of how festivals might advance forms of interculturalization as an ‘inter-epistemology’ with the potential to unravel colonial thinking and domination. These festivals play a critical role in reshaping the Canadian performance landscape and demonstrating how festivals can redirect transnational flows of knowledge and artistic production towards more inclusive practices.
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- The Cambridge Companion to International Theatre Festivals , pp. 239 - 253Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020