Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume I

Torsten Jost is a researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" at Freie Universität Berlin. Erika Fischer-Lichte is Director of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin. Milos Kosic studied creative writing at the City College of New York and English Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.Astrid Schenka is a performing arts scholar, dramaturge and translator. She currently works as a research associate at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin as well as a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts.

• AcknowledgmentsList of FiguresContributor BiosIntroduction: Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures — (Re)Generating Knowledges through Interweaving Performance CulturesTorsten JostPART I – (Re)Generating Cultural and Social Knowledges Building Relations, Engendering Knowledge: Te Rēhia Theatre’s SolOthello in TorontoRic Knowles Contesting the Povāḍā as an Epistemological Mode: History, Form and PerformanceKedar Arun Kulkarni Kaṭṭaikkūttu as Practice-Based KnowledgeHanne M. de BruinPART II – (Re)Generating Aesthetic Knowledges Aesthetic Knowledge and Aesthetic ExperienceErika Fischer-Lichte What Knowledges Do Dance Viewers Generate?Susan Leigh Foster Learning "to be Affected": Attaining "Relational Knowledge" through Interweaving in ActingPhillip ZarrilliPART III – (Re)Generating Spiritual Knowledges On Being and Unknowing: Moving with an "Other" in Capoeira, Contact Improvisation and Queer TangoAnn Cooper Albright Approaching Practices of Acting through Concepts of Daoist Philosophy Lynette Hunter Teatr ZAR’s Song Theater as Spiritual KnowledgeMaria Shevtsova Coda: Meditation on Not-Knowing Christel WeilerIndex