Performance Research 2:1

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 2
Performance Research......Page 5
Copyright......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
Editorial A Letter to You......Page 12
LA PORTE, OU JE RÊVE D’UN MONDE......Page 17
THE VIEW FROM THE DOOR......Page 20
…SES MÉCHANTES FARCES [THEIR NAUGHTY TRICKS]......Page 21
PETITS NUMÉROS......Page 22
LANGUAGE AND THE HYMN TO DIFFERENCE......Page 23
REFERENCES......Page 27
A Letter from Holland......Page 28
1......Page 32
2......Page 34
3......Page 37
4......Page 40
UEBERFLUSS II......Page 50
Kids and Pets: the Authentic in Contemporary Performance......Page 54
Writing—Text—Performance......Page 66
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 74
A Letter from Livõd Ránda......Page 75
From Logos to Landscape: Text in Contemporary Dramaturgy......Page 78
REFERENCES......Page 83
Text as Landscape......Page 85
REFERENCES......Page 91
Performed through......Page 94
REFERENCES......Page 99
Displacing the Haptic: Performance Art, the Photographic Document, and the 1970s......Page 100
REFERENCES......Page 109
The Scream......Page 110
TO LISTEN......Page 111
MUTENESS......Page 112
‘THE SCREAM SERVES NO PURPOSE’......Page 114
TO IMITATE, TO RECORD THE SCREAM*......Page 115
SPACING THE SCREAM......Page 116
THE IMAGE OF THE SCREAM......Page 118
TO SCREAM FOR SILENCE......Page 119
REFERENCES......Page 120
A Letter from Belgrade......Page 130
REFERENCES......Page 134
A Letter from Bosnia......Page 135
The Night and the Dreams......Page 138
PROCESS OF FREEDOM......Page 142
DIALOGUE AND CONFRONTATION......Page 144
VIDEOGRAPHY......Page 146
A Letter from Europe DearYuguang, How are you? I arrived in Paris the day before yesterday. I was completely unmoved by ‘Charles de Gaulle’; these airports have a sort of ‘proto-modernity’ which is familiar to us. Like huge laboratories, they areextremely convenient and yet they drain people of their energy. Before long there will be many such places in China. After sitting in an aeroplane for ten hours and then being confronted by this facet of Paris, I was made suddenly tired. But then I took t......Page 148
Book Reviews......Page 151
VIDEO ERGO SUM......Page 159
Deutsches Tanzarchiv Köln......Page 161
NOTE......Page 163
INFORMATION......Page 164
Performance Research: Letters from Europe......Page 165