Performance, Politics, and Power: A Workshop with Josette Bushell-Mingo

USC Visions and Voices

Artist Josette Bushell-Mingo will lead an interactive theatre workshop for USC students.

Physical Education Building (PED)

Please note: This workshop is open to current USC students only. Building on her performance of <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ninaa-story-about-me-and-nina-simone-registration-85158341893" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nina—A Story about Me and Nina Simone</a> and <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/from-the-personal-to-the-political-to-the-stage-registration-85160626727" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">subsequent panel discussion</a>, Josette Bushell-Mingo will lead an interactive theatre workshop for USC students. She will address how to explore pain, vulnerability, understanding, and compassion as well as confront personal, structural, and political manifestations of oppression through performance.Bio:Josette Bushell-Mingo (performer) is a Sweden-based English theatre actress and director of African descent. She was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award in 2000 for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Rafiki in the London production of Disney’s The Lion King. In 2001, Josette founded the black-led arts festival PUSH at the Young Vic. In 2006, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. In 2007, she directed the theatrical production of Margaret Atwood‘s novella The Penelopiad. Her production of The Odyssey, performed in Swedish Sign Language, received huge critical acclaim in Scandinavia. Bushell-Mingo sits on the board of the Swedish Film Institute, and is currently the artistic director for Tyst Teater, an ensemble of the Swedish National Touring Theatre.Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Organized by Brent Blair (Dramatic Arts), Anita Dashiell-Sparks (Dramatic Arts), and Suzanne Lacy (Art and Design).Photo: Urban Jören.

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