"Kimberly Jannarone's collection of essays cracks front-seated beliefs about experimental performance and the political reactions it is supposed to arouse, while also disclosing how even the most ingenious and radical vanguard acts, set out to challenge and protest against oppressive powers of various allegiances, can not only decline in their bid, but also be perverted to willfully back those very same powers."—Bookslut"Although Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right concludes with [a] call for a 'critical vanguard studies,' this well-timed and ambitious collection is already contributing to just such a project."—Theatre Journal"The final part of this now essential text subtly striates back through all of its frighteningly thrilling collectiveachievement."—Contemporary Theatre Review"At a moment when “innovation” and “disruption” — signature values propelling any vanguard act — have become corporate slogans, Vanguard Performance’s call to critical vigilance is timely."—The Drama Review"This valuable anthology, has changed how I teach Artaud, Marinetti, and other revolutionary artists."—John Fletcher, Theatre Survey"In the current political moment, when the staging of mass rallies in the service of xenophobia and autocracy arefinding their way across Europe and the United States, this study of totalitarian spectacle—that accepts and scrutinizes its place in the performance universe—couldnot be more timely." —Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism
