Daughters Opera: an epistemic representation of feminist solidarities.
Daughters Opera (2020), an inter-cultural Indian-Australian opera, offers possibilities of solidarities through a unique interdisciplinary and experimental encounter using text, music, movement, and site. Women artists from the Global North and Global South come together to embrace multiple performa...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Theatre & Performance Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 98 - 110 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2024
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