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date: 23 March 2025

Interculturalism 

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
Author(s):
Brian SingletonBrian Singleton

Interculturalism and performance is perhaps the most talked about and controversial cultural practice of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, characterized at best by a sharing and mutual borrowing of the manifestation of one theatre practice by another. At worst it features the appropriation and annihilation of indigenous, pre-modern practices in traditional societies by a rapacious ‘First World’ global capitalism. Interculturalism has its roots in orientalism, a term used to describe a European art movement of the mid-nineteenth century obsessed with both ... ...

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