Performance | Process | Politics

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1. This provocation has been slightly amended for this special issue.

2. For a brief overview of the field of process philosophy, see Seibt (2023).

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Notes on contributors

Stefanie Gabriele Sachsenmaier

Stefanie Gabriele Sachsenmaier (PhD Middlesex University, DEA Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle/Paris III, MA Goldsmiths College, SFHEA) is Associate Professor in Contemporary Performance at Middlesex University. She is Postgraduate Research Degrees Lead for the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries and Chair of the Faculty Ethics Committee. Her research centres on the processual in creative practice, with a particular interest in the ways that performance practices extend into socio-political contexts. Roles on funded projects include Co-Investigator for Artistic Doctorates in Europe (ErasmusPlus, 2017-2019) and Future Ecologies: Producing Dance Network (AHRC, Dance Research Matters, 2023-2025). She forms part of the AHRC Dance Research Matters Advisory Group, is editorial team member of Contemporary Theatre Review ‘Interventions’ and sits on the editorial board of Choreographic Practices Journal. Co-edited publications include Collaboration in Performance Practice: Premises, Workings and Failures (Palgrave 2016), Critical Stages ‘Unstable Grounds: Reconfigurations of Performance and Politics’ (2021) and Performance Research: ‘On Solidarity’ (2022). She also published a series of writings related to her long-term research with British choreographer Rosemary Butcher, with archival work ongoing. Her monograph Politics of Process in Performance is forthcoming with Bloomsbury. With a background as a performer, she is an experienced practitioner of Wu Style taijiquan.