Engaging Performance is the first systematic overview of socially engaged performance. Jan Cohen-Cruz has drawn together a collection of case studies that chart the history of performance's contribution to social justice. Each chapter of this comprehensive account addresses a key aspect of engaged performance, moving from specific case studies to contemporary examples of related performances and then to practical exercises, covering: artistic ensembles' amplification of power movements Theatre of the Oppressed personal story-based artmaking the political dramatic text cultural organising cultural traditions training for performance and social justice A skillful progression from history through theory to practice makes Engaging Performance the definitive text on a rapidly expanding field.