...Noah Fischer Noah Fischer s Performance Breakthrough 2036 (A Speculative Fable), American Realness: Bodies on the Gears, Gibney Theater, New York, 2019. Photo: Ian Douglas 41 Noah Fischer Performance Breakthrough 2036 (A Speculative Fable) A lecture-performance co- commissioned by Theater...

...Nicola Gunn 21 Nicola Gunn In Spite of Myself A Performance Text Theater 49:3 doi 10.1215/01610775-7855060 © 2019 by Nicola Gunn Nicola Gunn s In Spite of Myself, Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre Melbourne, Australia, 2013. Photo: Sarah Walker Note This script is from the performance season...

...André M. Zachery André M. Zachery Artist’s Journal Futurity and the Containment of Blackness in Twenty-First-­ Century­ Performance The term Afrofuturism was coined by Mark Dery in his 1994 Flame Wars chapter “Black to the Future.”1 But according to writer and theorist...

... about the play’s issues: drinking, sex, social behavior - all commonly on the mind of a new college student. Later in the year, two productions of The Bacchae were performed on campus. One was Wole Soyinka’s modern version: the other, a more “traditional” rendition. Students...

...David DeRose BETWEEN THEATER AND ANTHROPOLOGY by Richard Schechner. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. Copyright © THEATER 1987 1987 DEFINING PERFORMANCE BETWEEN THEATER AND ANTHROPOLOGY...

... something authentic about medieval perfor- mances. Death by Drama and Other Death by Drama itselfconstitutes an aca- Medieval Urban Legends demic performance ofan unusual and welcome by Jody Enders...

...Patrice Pavis Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2006 Translated by Joel Anderson Patrice Pavis Translated by Joel Anderson Staging Calamity Mise-en-scène and Performance at Avignon 2005 Even before the fifty-ninth Avignon Festival began, if one heeded...

...Loren Kruger © 2008 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2008 Jo Ractliffe’s Inner City Works, Tour Guides of the Inner City, Market Theatre Gallery, Johannesburg, 2000. Courtesy of Jo Ractliffe Loren Kruger Letter from Johannesburg Performance and Urban Fabrics...

... emails, letters, and journals. Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2008 John Houchin Bodily Fear Recent American Performance Controversies In my book Censorship of the American Theatre in the Twentieth Century, I assert that censors in America ultimately feared that theater...

...Tom Haas Copyright © by yale/theater 1972 1972 A Director's Notes After a Performance of WOYZECK by Tom Haas Woyzeck is meant to be a hallucinatory nightmare. The terror of a concentration camp is where trapped people-like rats-turn on each other to rip, tear, and eat each...

...David Freedlander David Freedlander surveys a variety of performance events designed to reconfigure the relationships between urban space and urban dwellers in New York City. He describes a burgeoning guerrilla performance culture—from kicklines on the steps of the New York Public Library...

... Twice Real Marina Abramović and the Performance Archive When Marina Abramović Dies: A Biography by James Westcott 2010: MIT Press Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present edited by Klaus Biesenbach 2010: Museum of Modern Art In 1988, Marina Abramović and her longtime partner, Frank Uwe...

...Joseph Roach © 2012 by Joseph Roach 2012 Joseph Roach A Feeling for Risk Notes on Kinesthetic Empathy and the World Performance Project Discovering as if for the first time that earthquakes thrill the senses and startle the mind, the Eastern seaboard got all shook up...

...Sarah Bay-Cheng In her essay-manifesto, Sarah Bay-Cheng outlines principles for a new historiography of performance taking into account the multiple layers of mediation that surround any experience of live art in the twenty-first century. © 2012 by Sarah Bay-Cheng 2012 Balkan Baroque, created...

...Miriam Felton-Dansky Felton-Dansky proposes a new category of performance called “viral performance,” in which artists use new media and technology to stage politically provocative public hoaxes. These artists disseminate tantalizing fictions, then reveal the truths beneath them, as a strategy...

...Alexis Soloski In this forum, critic Alexis Soloski gathers a range of contemporary theater artists, with an array of approaches to fact-based performance, to discuss the potential, integrity, and complications of documentary theater. © 2013 by Alexis Soloski 2013 Unnatural Acts, Classic...

...Bertie Ferdman © 2013 by Bertie Ferdman 2013 Cuidades Paralelas building, Buenos Aires, 2010. Photo: Lorena Fernandez Bertie Ferdman A New Journey through Other Spaces Contemporary Performance beyond “Site-Specific” It is only in a place and at a time where we do...

...Shonni Enelow Emergency index 2011 edited by Gluzman Yelena Yankelevich Matvei 2012 : Ugly Duckling Presse © 2013 by Shonni Enelow 2013 Books Shonni Enelow The Literary Life of Performance Emergency index’s Performance Documentation Project Emergency index...

... Art as Participatory Performance Surveillance, that sociopolitical fixture in our contemporary world, is, by design, par- ticipatory. Its many forms — from publicly installed cctv cameras on streetlamps and traffic lights to online credit checks, personalized Google advertising, and Facebook...

...Shawn-Marie Garrett Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theater Edited by Jeffrey D. Mason and J. Ellen Gainor 1999: University of Michigan Press © 2000 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2000...