Lenine Bourke Lenine Bourke i(A139135 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Birds of a Feather: On Queerness, Performance, the Coming Back Out Ball and the LGBTIQ+ Elders Dance Club Peta Murray , Adelaide Rief , Marnie Badham , Tristan Meecham , Bec Reid , Lenine Bourke , 2022 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 81 2022; (p. 237-271)

'All these groups, for one reason or another, are loosened from the power structure of society because they are different, other. Such folks can easily see their fellow human beings as themselves. They have a sense of the naked unaccommodated human being, the 'communitas' person. Power structures tend to kill 'communitas'. It is the fact of liminality, its aside-ness, its below-ness, that produces and protects 'communitas'... The domination system cannot understand liminality. But the liminal desires the liminal, has to be out of the structure game, where it can have its ordinary people quality. There 'communitas' exists, just as grass wants to come up between the cracks.' (Publication abstract)

1 y separately published work icon Not Just an Audience : Young People Transforming our Theatre Lenine Bourke , Mary Ann Hunter , Sydney : Currency Press , 2011 Z1767683 2011 single work criticism 'This essay is about generation shift and a new creative force in the Australian theatre. It is about how young people, children and the theatre artists who work with them are leading the demand for change. Young people get the current shift better than anyone else, say the authors: they're living it, activating it, and they're even making money out of it. When it comes to theatre, they want and deserve great work. What if the balance of power was reversed and young people were brought in on the act of transforming our theatre? The aim in this essay is to explore why and how.' Source: Back cover.
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