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A Performance studies scholar adapts Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-18 Scott Dillard
Published in Text and Performance Quarterly (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Listen, performance: dropping a note for a future performer Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-16 Chris McRae
This note (and subsequent series of endnotes) for a performer considers and presents performance as an invitation for engaged and generative practice of listening.
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A performance pedagogy of the small Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Aubrey A. Huber
In this essay, I urge teachers of performance to write their performance pedagogies to further document and theorize the careful work they do as performance scholars and practitioners that contribu...
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Cracking up: Black feminist comedy in the twentieth & twenty-first century United States Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Amani Starnes
Published in Text and Performance Quarterly (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Performing a departmental archive: half a century of performance Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Chris McRae
Performance practitioners curate collections of artifacts from aesthetic performances they direct and stage, which serve as evidence of past performances and is a practice that functions as a metho...
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Windowscapes, dreamscapes and screen texts: train travel as performative practice in experimental film Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Kornelia Boczkowska
Echoing the current research on mobilities, performative practice and the performative documentary, railway journey in screen texts is increasingly seen as a complex embodied, experiential and perf...
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Depression (re)cycling: geotraumatic performance & other cosmic plot holes Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Tyler S. Rife
While biomedical paradigms may pathologize depression, there is much critical potential in disclosing the disposition as a more complex, material, and ecological entanglement. In this performance, ...
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Is She Mad, or Does She Joke? Mapping the digital performance piece about the Countess de Castiglione Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Lisa Flanagan
A response to the digital recording of Theatre Aug's production of “Is She Mad of Does She Joke?” written and directed by Dr. Melanie Kitchens O'Meara.
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Black and white, quare and queer: reimagining interracial dating through the Sibling Rivalry podcast Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Aisha Powell, Shinsuke Eguchi, Kenya Sumner
Sibling Rivalry is a podcast hosted by Bob the Drag Queen and Monet X Change, where the two share their Black queer experiences. Drawing quare studies, this essay closely reads their discourse surr...
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Digital performance in everyday life Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Mindy Fenske
Published in Text and Performance Quarterly (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Awareness, reflection and imagination: how the metatheatrical explores the self and society in contemporary storytelling Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Alex Vickery-Howe, Lisa Harper Campbell
Building from the authors’ own experiment, the conception and creation of Watchlist (Vickery-Howe, 2020), this article interrogates metatheatricality in contemporary theatrical works: How Not To Ma...
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Searching for the Captain’s House Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Sarah K. Jackson
“Searching for the Captain’s House” is the documentation of interwoven histories. Family histories, family vacations, and the relationships that solidify or erode across the years. Natural historie...
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Is she mad, or does she joke? Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Melanie Kitchens O’Meara
Is She Mad, or Does She Joke is an ensemble performance piece I scripted based on my almost twenty-year fascination with the Countess de Castiglione and her photograph Scherzo di Follia. I directed...
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The Countess holds me Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Melanie Kitchens O’Meara
Is She Mad, or Does She Joke is an ensemble performance piece I scripted based on my almost twenty-year fascination with the Countess de Castiglione and her photograph Scherzo di Follia. In this ar...
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Staging and intertextualizing Franz Kafka’s “in the penal colony” Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Evan Mitchell Schares
In 2022, I adapted for the stage Franz Kafka’s 1914 short story “In the Penal Colony” and intertextualized the text with devised narratives about the body in pain. I theorize both the staged perfor...
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The serious business of performance practice Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Tracy Stephenson Shaffer
This essay provides a performance criticism of Melanie Kitchens O’Meara’s Is She Mad, Or Does She Joke?. I argue that performance practice is serious business because it is a scholarly act and a va...
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A revolution in three acts: the radical Vaudeville of Bert Williams, Eva Tanguay, and Julian Eltinge Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Kim Higgs
Published in Text and Performance Quarterly (Vol. 43, No. 4, 2023)
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Modest trickster: a response to Last Words Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Amy K. Kilgard
This essay explores the proposition of the relational aesthetics of audience participation in Kirt Shineman's performance Last Words. I describe my own participation in the performance as a modest ...
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Turning archival: the life of the historical in queer studies Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Seth Knievel
Published in Text and Performance Quarterly (Vol. 43, No. 4, 2023)
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Culturally-responsive devising as performance Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Daniel X. Harris
Drawing on a recent case study from Singapore, this essay examines how devising can be expanded beyond notions of “improvisational” and “fixed” into a more emergent, speculative practice that embod...
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Performing marginalized embodiment in fitness culture: co-storytelling in/exclusion through personal narrative Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock
This analysis of personal narrative as performance identity explores the reperformance of marginalized embodiment in group fitness classes in the national fitness affiliate CrossFit and the nationa...
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Classroom as refuge: performative possibilities for safety, collective healing, and resistance in the classroom and beyond Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Sarah Gonzalez Noveiri, Cristy Dougherty
ABSTRACT In the project, we analyze our 2020 NCA performance of our written script, Classroom as Refuge: Performative Possibilities for Safety, Collective Healing, and Resistance in the Classroom and Beyond. The purpose of this performance and script was to make sense of our identities and experiences as students and academics. Our script and performance outlined the relationship between experiential
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The Hundreds Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Dave Yan
Published in Text and Performance Quarterly (Vol. 43, No. 4, 2023)
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Shitsex: recontaminating queer sex and theory Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Michael Tristano Jr.
This essay responds and extends the discourse found in Corey and Nakayama’s “Sextext” and Gunn’s “ShitText.” Examining the process of anal douching, which washes away fecal matter from the anus bef...
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When the audience becomes the performer: a response to Last Words Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Nicole M. Costantini
This essay is a response to Kirt A. Shineman’s Last Words, staged at the NCA Annual Convention in November 2021. The author uses this essay to reflect upon the potential impacts of experimental, au...
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Performing blackness: a composite counterstory of direct-to-consumer genetic ancestry testing Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Charnell Peters
The industry of genetic ancestry testing (GAT) uses biotechnology to generate new performances of genetic, cultural, and ethnoracial identity. Based on interviews and focus groups with Black GAT cu...
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The performance of Last Words: a play of relational aesthetics Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-25 Kirt A. Shineman
This essay frames the Last Words’ script and how an audience participates in the performance to create meaning and enhance relational aesthetics. I use a second-person narrative to focus on the aud...
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K-pop dance: fandoming yourself on social media Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Mathieu Berbiguier
Published in Text and Performance Quarterly (Vol. 43, No. 4, 2023)
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Killjoy pedagogy and the politics of a smile Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Meggie Mapes, Jamie Ascher
ABSTRACT This performance kills joy by enacting Sara Ahmed’s “feminist killjoy” and investigates what’s at stake when pedagogy-as-happiness converges with realities of cultural domination. As feminist scholar-pedagogues, we investigate lived experiences that privilege pedagogical performances of joy, where effective instruction becomes conflated with the transmission of happiness through, for example
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The Unruly Muse Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Charles Parrott
This review of Lynn C. Miller and John Modaff’s podcast The Unruly Muse focuses on the potential for podcasting to revitalize oral interpretation of literature in the digital age. Along the way, th...
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“A terrible beauty is born”: using Yeats to respond to Last Words, November 2021 Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Joshua Hamzehee
In 2021, I attended the first National Communication Association conference since 2019 (before the COVID-19 pandemic began), and I participated in Kirt Shineman’s experimental collaborative perform...
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Embodied fragments: embracing risk, failure, resistance, and pedagogical possibility Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Aubrey A. Huber, Chris McRae, L. D. Mattson, Sasha J. Sanders, Christina Magalona, Simon Rousset, Brooks Oglesby, Liahnna Stanley
ABSTRACT This video performance utilizes collage and assemblage to embody risk, failure, and possibility in the communication classroom as well as to explore how such embodiments function as disruptions to normative expectations. Informed by Amy Kilgard’s “pedagogy of chaos,” framework for “collage” the performers generate collaborative fragments of the classroom experience to speak with one another
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Collaborative performances of and toward survival in the communication classroom and beyond: an inter-institutional performance forum Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Meggie Mapes, Lore/tta LeMaster, Aubrey A. Huber, Chris McRae
ABSTRACT This forum features collaborative performances comprised of graduate student and faculty contingencies representing various institutions: University of Kansas, Arizona State University, University of South Florida, and University of Denver. Drawing on lived experience through the vantage of instructor and/or of student, participants embody performances of survival in the communication classroom
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Inner monologues of a newbie CCPer Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-24 Reslie Cortés, Ana Isabel Terminel Iberri, Megan Stephenson, Corey Reutlinger, Tyler Rife, Robert Razzante, Katrina Hanna, Lore/tta LeMaster
ABSTRACT Our identities as critical educators are at odds with the hierarchy performatively enforcing the banking model of education. We understand the classroom as a political site where we labor to envision and perform anti-oppression communication. This pedagogical labor reflexively and necessarily unravels students at the edge of their/our intersectional privileges and disadvantages. In this piece
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Adapting to survive … and thrive Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Karen S. Mitchell
ABSTRACT This forward offers a brief summary of the articles in the forum and provides a justification for why adaptation of literary and cultural texts to the stage remains vibrant.
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Moving through crisis in Mariana Valencia’s Solo B Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Olivia Michiko Gagnon
In this essay, I spend time with Mariana Valencia’s 2020 video-performance Solo B, which was (re)imagined for an online environment when her live commission for The Shed in New York City was delaye...
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Being Muslim for dummies, or how not to be a threat 101: embodied performances of race and religion after the Manchester attack Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Asif Majid
Performances of Muslimness are often performances of the body. Such performances surfacing after the May 2017 attack on Manchester Arena demonstrate British Muslims’ negotiations of the sociopoliti...
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The motion of invisible objects: aging queer desires Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Andrew Spieldenner
This exploration takes a critical erotic/a approach to understanding how queer desires change and disrupt over the course of aging. I explore aging gay sexuality as a text of the body that is perfo...
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The performativity of comedic apologies Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2023-01-25 Dustin Bradley Goltz, Jason Zingsheim
This essay examines the comedic apology ritual as a complex site of struggle over competing cultural values. First tracing the multilayered process of the categorical apology, we detail performativ...
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The Burner, the Default, and the Communicative Ethnographer: adapting ethnographic personae at Burning Man Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Raquel Polanco
ABSTRACT This essay argues that the heuristic practice of bifurcating the narrator in Chamber Theatre adaptations of literature offers the performance ethnographer a strategy for identifying narrative tensions in ethnographic writing. I review arguments establishing the literary fictional nature of ethnographic writing and the subsequent use of metafiction by scholars to address the concerns brought
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Sound-space: a listener’s creative outcome through an acousmatic performance at the Spatial Sound Institute Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Sofía Balbontín Gallo
This research focuses on the invisible space built by sound as subject of study, developing through a practice-based methodology a creative process during a residency period in the Spatial Sound In...
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A mothering dramaturgy: the creative co-practices of mothering and directing in contemporary rehearsal rooms Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Katy Maudlin, Rea Dennis, Kate Hunter
ABSTRACT This essay considers the conceptual diversity in the current discourse on dramaturgy within contemporary theater making and adds an embodied maternal dramaturgy. Featuring interviews with six prominent women directors who are mothers, the essay presents key mothering moments and their presence in rehearsal practice. The essay highlights the corporeal knowledge of the postpartum director, and
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Performing extinction stories: exploring creative responses to bee decline Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Rosamund Portus
ABSTRACT As extinction becomes one of the most pressing crises of our time, projects that engage with nonhuman lives have emerged as a visible fixture of the creative landscape. This raises the question of what role creative explorations might play in shaping public discourse and action around extinction. In moving towards an answer to this question, this work draws on conversations with performance
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Out past metonymy in the New Jewish Cemetery, Lublin Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-21 Emily Brennan-Moran
ABSTRACT This essay engages performative writing to enact a scene of metonymic remembering in the New Jewish Cemetery, Lublin on the Catholic Feast of Corpus Christi. In 2019, I traveled to Poland to write about empty shoes, metonymy, and Holocaust memory and found myself caught off guard by a destroyed pre-war Jewish cemetery. This essay traces my excessive, defamiliarized remembering as I spun out
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Adaptation as augmentation: performing writing as a means of survival Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Justin Thomas Trudeau
ABSTRACT This essay utilizes performative writing to explore the themes of disappearance and survival as a means of surveying and addressing the role of adaptation in performance studies praxis. Utilizing theories of collecting and writing, I trace the contributions made by performance studies via the metonym of the show poster. I argue that the art of adaption provides an uncanny relay for both individual
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Miscommunication: transmission of information through The Letters of Shadow Puppets Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Sevgi Aka
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the failure of communication and how information gets filtered through my video work The Letters of Shadow Puppets. It is a video capturing a site-specific installation of twisting Venetian blinds, with a text of conversation stuck on each side. The conversation belongs to the traditional shadow puppets Karagöz and Hacivat who are known for their misunderstandings due to
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(Re)Positioning site dance: local acts, global perspectives Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Rosemary Candelario
Published in Text and Performance Quarterly (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2023)
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Black thoughts on Black notes Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Javon Johnson
Published in Text and Performance Quarterly (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2023)
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Revolt of the body in stillness Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-08-01 Naida Zukić
ABSTRACT The project choreographs revolt as performed in Butoh willful stillness. Stillness is a political intervention, which in its slow and sustained study reveals the functioning of in/visible economies of violence. Indeed, Butoh aesthetic of stillness, demands self-reflexivity that troubles voyeuristic passivity to create space for ethically facing the other in moments of violent cultural annihilations
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Public performances as assemblages: contesting the narrative of Thailand’s 2010 crackdown Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Penchan Phoborisut
ABSTRACT Public performances have been studied as acts of social protest that contest social or gender norms or collective memories of state violence. When public protests were prohibited after the 2010 violent crackdown in Thailand, Thai protesters staged other forms of public performances. What unfolded were adaptive street performances by innovative assemblages that forged new ways to resist when
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Crossing representational borders in Lola Arias’ Minefield/Campo Minado Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Cristina Pividori, Andrea Bellot
ABSTRACT This paper analyses how borders are negotiated in Lola Arias’ Minefield/Campo Minado (2016). Arias’ representation of the war experiences and traumatic memories of six veterans, three from each side of the Malvinas/Falklands war, suggests an effort to reframe fixed categorizations around the conflict and cross temporal, spatial and aesthetic borders. We will study the articulation of these
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Do you think I can make friends with it? Exploring performative potential of the echo through myth and Autoethnography Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-26 Alex Davenport
ABSTRACT This essay utilizes the mythology of Echo, along with the phenomenon of echoes, as a lens for examining past experience and performance. Placing readings of three mythological accounts of Echo alongside autoethnographic reflections complicates understandings of both the myth and experience, while an examination of the phenomenon of echoes suggests an already present way of understanding that
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Old tales through new images and new tales through old images: ethnography of a Jambavantaru katha (narrative) performance in Telangana Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Chandan Bose
ABSTRACT This article is based on ethnography of a performance-narration of the Jambavantaru Puranam, the etiological tale of the Madiga community in Telangana, south India. The piece focuses on changes in the technologies of production and conditions of reception of the Jambavantaru Puranam. By documenting contemporary ways of telling and internalizing folk narratives, this article contextualizes
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Surviving the thin line between the comic and the cosmic through a readaptation of Wild Ducks Flying Backward Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Andrea M. Baldwin
ABSTRACT In continued conversation about the exploration of adaptation and its current state, this essay recounts the genealogical experience of reperforming and sharing scripts as a way to sustain new programs by connecting them through these recycled scripts.
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Performativity confounded: agency, resistance, and the history of politeness Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Soile Ylivuori
ABSTRACT This essay compares Judith Butler’s and Erving Goffman’s theoretical contributions to performance and performativity with the goal of bridging their approaches, usually seen as mutually incompatible. Using eighteenth-century women’s politeness as a case study, it argues that politeness is a practice that is essentially both performed and performative; analysing it as such offers us valuable
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American cultures as transnational performance: commons, skills, traces Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-08 Zornitsa D. Keremidchieva
Published in Text and Performance Quarterly (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2023)
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Performing Arts in Prisons: Creative Perspectives Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Misty D. Saribal
Published in Text and Performance Quarterly (Vol. 43, No. 2, 2023)
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Three lessons about performance studies derived from the devised adaption Don Quixote Ugly Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-07-01 Charles Parrott
ABSTRACT This essay draws on the author’s experience researching, reimagining, and subsequently staging Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote to draw parallels between the figure of Don Quixote and the academic discipline of performance studies as it is practiced in the communication tradition.
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo: a transnational collaboration Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Nesrin Alrefaai, Matthew Spangler
ABSTRACT This article situates the adaptation of literature for the stage as a collaborative artistic practice and critical research methodology. We describe our experience of co-writing a play based on Christy Lefteri’s award-winning novel The Beekeeper of Aleppo (2019). As playwrights based in London and California, respectively, with life experiences rooted in Syria, the United Kingdom, and the
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And so we adapt Text and Performance Quarterly (IF 0.6) Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Rebecca M. Kennerly
ABSTRACT I begin with an evocation of my experience of community as-if climbing aboard a life raft of sorts during our 2019 “Adaptation” panel presentations at NCA. Then I explore how the concept and practice of adaptation has served me well, in multiple contexts, as I navigate what Simmons and Brisini call the “archipelagos” of discourse and practices that have formed the “transdisciplinary” (2) grounds