This collection offers writings on the body with a focus on performance, defined as both staged performance and everyday performance. Traditionally, theorizations of the body have either analyzed its impact on its socio-historical environment or treated the body as a self-enclosed semiotic and affective system. This collection makes a conscious effort to merge these two approaches. It is interested in interactions between bodies and other bodies, bodies and environments, and bodies and objects.
Introduction: Ways of Knowing and Ways of Being Known by Lynette Hunter Part I: The Body in Performance-Somatic Complexity Chapter 1. Weird Embodiment by Timothy Morton Chapter 2. The Senses and Sciences of Fascia: a Practice as Research Investigation by Joseph Dumit and Kevin O'Connor Chapter 3. The Petrie Dish: Somatic Praxis, Embryology, Becoming in Marie Chouinard's "The Rite of Spring" by Hilary Bryan Chapter 4. The Performativity of Performance: Doing Things with Bodies and What Words Might Do in Relation to That. A Lecture/Demonstration (Not for the Squeamish) by Jess Curtis Part II: The Body in Performance-Attentiveness Chapter 5. Enminded Performance: Dancing with a Horse by Nita Little Chapter 6. JUST LIKE THAT: William Forsythe || Between Movement and Language by Erin Manning and Brian Massumi Chapter 7. Her Heart Can Lift Mountains by Beating: Form and Formlessness in Performance Process by Sean Feit Part III: The Body in Performance-Emergence Chapter 8. Transversal Affectivity and the Lobster: Intimate Advances of Deleuze and Guattari, Rodrigo Garcia and La Carniceria Teatro, and Jan Lauwers and Needcompany by Bryan Reynolds & Guy Zimmerman Chapter 9. Kantor's DIRECTOR: "I will be myself, but I will be with the actors" by Peter Lichtenfels Part IV: Bodies Walking, Bodies Writing Chapter 10. Where Can Walking Be Taking Me? by Alvaro Ivan Hernandez Rodriguez Chapter 11. Walking with/Com-Pains: (Re-)(Em)bodying Missteps and Messmates by Ilya Noe Chapter 12. Walking Home: A Feminist Tracing of Home and Belonging by Maureen Burdock Part V: Bodies-Critical Race, Politics and History Chapter 13. Jewish Ears and Aryan Dirndls: National Socialist Racial Ideology and Jewish Identity by Elisabeth Krimmer Chapter 14. "So That They Never Forget the Holocaust:" Memorial Tattoos and Embodied Holocaust Remembrance by Verena Hutter Chapter 15. Presidential Dancing: The Bodies of Heads of State by Maxine Leeds Craig Chapter 16. Socialization through the Arts: Katherine Dunham as Social Activist by Halifu Osumare
