The Cambridge Companion to Performance Studies

Cover......Page 1
The Cambridge companion to performance studies......Page 2
Contents......Page 6
List of illustrations......Page 8
Notes on contributors......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: the pirouette, detour, revolution, deflection, deviation,
tack, and yaw of the performative turn......Page 14
1 Performance and democracy......Page 22
2 Performance as research: live events and documents......Page 34
3 Movement’s contagion: the kinesthetic impact of performance......Page 57
4 Culture, killings, and criticism in the years of living dangerously: Bali
and Baliology......Page 71
5 Universal experience: the city as tourist stage......Page 87
6 Performance and intangible cultural heritage......Page 102
7 Live and technologically mediated performance......Page 116
8 Moving histories: performance and oral history......Page 129
9 What is the “social” in social practice?: comparing experiments in
performance......Page 145
10 Live art in art history: a paradox?......Page 160
11 Queer theory......Page 175
Further reading......Page 191