Soldier, Child, Tortured Man: Performance by Goat Island
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Soldier, Child, Tortured Man (1989) was Goat Island’s first performance. It considered the physical and mental conditioning that militarises first the individual and then the social structure.
- 1980s
- 21st century
- American Performance
- Choreography
- Collaborative
- Contemporary Performance
- Dona Ann McAdams
- Dramaturgy
- East Village World’s Fair
- Ensemble
- Independent
- Lin Hixson
- Live Art
- Mark Russell
- New York
- Performance Space 122
- Physical Conditioning
- Postmodernism
- Soldier Child
- The War Machine
- Thomas Heggen
- Tortured Man
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