Performances of Protest and Resistance

Julia Listengarten is Professor of Theatre at the University of Central Florida, USA.Yana Meerzon is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada.Varvara Sklez is pursuing a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.

• Acknowledgements Introduction by Yana Meerzon (University of Ottawa, Canada), Julia Listengarten (University of Central Florida, USA), Varvara Sklez (University of Warwick, UK) PART ONE: DRAMATURGIES OF RESISTANCE AND PROTEST 1. Maksim Hanukai, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. The Biopolitical Economy of Moscow 2. Varvara Sklez, Warwick University, UK. Protesting Bodies in Alliance Through Time: Rehearsing Support in That’s Not Why You’re Being Judged 3. Katarzhyna Syska, Jagiellonian University, Poland. Performing Death in Contemporary Russian Artistic Activism and Drama 4. Aniko Szucs, Skidmore College, USA. Dystopia as Protest: The Productions of Chaos, 2045 and 1984 in Hungary 5. Anna Lytvynova, Northwestern University, USA. Performing Digital Precariousness: Social Media and the Construction of National Identity in Russia’s War in Ukraine PART TWO: WOMEN, RESISTANCE AND PROTEST 6. Vera Boicova, Independent theatre and performance artist. Eve’s Ribs Feminist Protest Art Festival: Fight for Representation.7. Julia Listengarten, University of Central Florida, USA. Speaking Truth to Power: Expressions of Holy Foolishness as a Form of Resistance 8. Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa, Canada. Staging History – Performing Protest in Anastasia Patlaj’s Documentary Theatre 9. Alexandra Dunaeva, independent scholar, Finland. Wound to Wound. Judith Performance by the Conversations Theater Company (St. Petersburg) 10. Inna Perheentupa, Galina Miazhevich & Saara Ratilainen, FEMCORUS project, Tampere University, Finland. Smuggling’ Anti-War Information with the Feminist Zine Zhenskaya Pravda. PART THREE: DECOLONIZING RUSSIAN NATIONALISM11. Ewa Bal, Jagellonian University, Poland, & Kasia Lech, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.Situatedness against biopolitics of the past. Pragmatics of theatre and the turn towards localness in Polish theatre after 1991. 12. Anna Hodel, University of Basel, Switzerland. Decolonization as De-heroization: Performative Protest in Ukrainian Women’s Theatre since 2014 13. Margarita Kompelmakher, independent scholar, Atlanta, USA. The Art of Being Direct: Resisting Nationalism in the Work of the Belarus Free Theatre 14. Kamila Mamadnazarbekova, Sorbonne University, France. Zarema Zaudinova – Feminist Killjoy from the Caucasus 15. Mark Simon, University of Göttingen, Germany. Communicating Social Justice Ideas through Pop Music in Russia: Manizha Sangin’s Artistic Career between Marginality and MainstreamCODA 16. Sergei Ostrovsky, London, UK, Conversation about Marina Davydova’s Museum of Uncounted Voices: Contemplating Maps, Borders, and National Identities Then and Now INDEX