Contesting Performance

KHALID AMINE Senior Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Tetouan, MoroccoSHARON ARONSON-LEHAVI Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies, Bar Ilan University, IsraelMARIN BLA EVI? Assistant Professor, Academy of Drama Arts, University of Zagreb, CroatiaPETER ECKERSALL Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne, AustraliaLADA ?ALE FELDMAN Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Zagreb, CroatiaSHANNON JACKSON Professor of Rhetoric and Professor and Chair of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USALOREN KRUGER Professor of Comparative and English Literatures, African Studies, and Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Chicago, USABOJANA KUNST Researcher, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Assistant Professor, University of Primorska, SloveniaRAY LANGENBACH Professorship in Postgraduate Artistic Research, Art History, and Theory, Finnish Academy of Fine Art and Finnish Theatre Academy, and Associate Professor in the Department of Performance and Media, Sunway University, MalaysiaGAY MCAULEY Honorary Associate Professor of Performance Studies, University of Sydney, AustraliaSAL MURGIYANTO Associate Professor of Dance and Performance, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan, and Jakarta Institute of the Arts, IndonesiaSIBYLLE PETERS Researcher, director and performerPAUL RAE Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies, National University ofSingaporeFREDDIE ROKEM Emanuel Herzikowitz Professor for 19th and 20th Century Art, Tel Aviv University, IsraelEDWARD SCHEER Associate Professor, School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy, University of Warwick, UK and President of PSi (Performance Studies international)DIANA TAYLOR University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish, New York University, USAUCHINO TADASHI Professor of Performance Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, JapanTAKAHASHI YUICHIRO Professor of Performance Studies, Dokkyo University, Japan

• Notes on Contributors Introduction: Contesting Performance in an Age of Globalization; J.McKenzie, C.J.W.-L.Wee & H.Roms PART I: INSTITUTIONALIZING PERFORMANCE STUDIES The Many Lives of Performance: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics; D.Taylor Interdisciplinary Field or Emerging Discipline?: Performance Studies at the University of Sydney; G.McAuley The Practice Turn: Performance and the British Academy; H.Roms Rhetoric in Ruins: Performance Studies, Speech, and the 'Americanization' of the American University; S.Jackson Performance Studies in Japan; U.Tadashi& T.Yuichiro PART II: CONTESTING THE ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE THROUGH PERFORMANCE Between Antipodality and Relational Performance: Performance Studies in Australia; E.Scheer& P.Eckersall Critical Writing and Performance Studies: The Case of Slovenian Journal Maska ; B.Kunst 'Say as I Do': Performance Research in Singapore; R.Langenbach& P.Rae The Performance of Performance Research: A Report from Germany; S.Peters Translate, or Else: Marking the Global Troubles of Performance Research in Croatia; ?.Feldman& M.Blaževi? PART III: THE POWER OF PERFORMANCE PRACTICE Performing Postcoloniality in the Moroccan Scene: Emerging Sites of Hybridity; K.Amine Searching for the Contemporary in the Traditional: Contemporary Indonesian Dance in Southeast Asia; S.Murgiyanto Word and Action in Israeli Performance; S.Aronson-Lehavi& F.Rokem Democratic Actors and Post-Apartheid Drama: Contesting Performance in Contemporary South Africa; L.Kruger Index

'The book is undoubtedly an important intervention in the organization and expansion of performance research in a global age, highlighting the power structures at play in disciplinary formation.' - The Journal of Theatre Research International'Performance research has 'gone global', according to this brilliantly diverse edition. This is a bit like saying performance research has 'gone critical', 'gone missing' or 'gone mad', but braver....This book is described, on its cover, as a 'landmark collection of essays by international scholars'. It marks the land as surely as those distinctive pinks, greens and blues did once for international geopolitical forces, but it marks it in such a way as to reveal the gaps that one can fill in for oneself...The best parts of this excellent book are as good as you will find anywhere.' - Contemporary Theatre Review'This is the great strength of the collection: an assembling of voices and perspectives carefully solicited from, well, if not all corners of the globe, then at the very least a broad sampling...Rather than recapitulate the direction and content of each of those contributions, I would prefer to simply recommend that anyone with an interest in the discipline/field take the time to both work through the essays and, more, to consider how to engage their own, local practice with the conversation to which the collection affords the reader an access.' - Performance Paradigm'Contesting Performance will be useful in graduate-level courses on performance studies, given its much-needed global perspective in relation to extant field overviews. It will also be of interest to scholars seeking to widen their geographical horizons, as many of the chapters point readers toward archives of understudied national theatre traditions and cultural performance practices aroundthe globe...the editors have done an admirable job of advocating the need to contest the dominance of a single model of performance studies. Perhaps by design, the book sets the stage for what might follow.' - Glenn Odom, Theatre Journal'