Contesting Performance

Contesting Performance is a collection of essays by international scholars that addresses the global development of performance research in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The collection functions as a critical reader on diverse approaches to studying performance that contest dominant paradigms of performance studies.

KHALID AMINE Senior Professor of Comparative Literature and Performance Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Tetouan, Morocco SHARON ARONSON-LEHAVI Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies, Bar Ilan University, Israel MARIN BLA EVI? Assistant Professor, Academy of Drama Arts, University of Zagreb, Croatia PETER ECKERSALL Senior Lecturer in Theatre Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia LADA ?ALE FELDMAN Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Zagreb, Croatia SHANNON JACKSON Professor of Rhetoric and Professor and Chair of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA LOREN KRUGER Professor of Comparative and English Literatures, African Studies, and Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Chicago, USA BOJANA KUNST Researcher, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Assistant Professor, University of Primorska, Slovenia RAY 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, Malaysia GAY MCAULEY Honorary Associate Professor of Performance Studies, University of Sydney, Australia SAL MURGIYANTO Associate Professor of Dance and Performance, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan, and Jakarta Institute of the Arts, Indonesia SIBYLLE PETERS Researcher, director and performer PAUL RAE Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies, National University ofSingapore FREDDIE ROKEM Emanuel Herzikowitz Professor for 19th and 20th Century Art, Tel Aviv University, Israel EDWARD 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, USA UCHINO TADASHI Professor of Performance Studies, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan TAKAHASHI YUICHIRO Professor of Performance Studies, Dokkyo University, Japan