GENERAL EDITOR
Richard Gough is a co-founder and the General Editor of Performance Research, Professor of Music and Performance at University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK, and Artistic Director of the Centre for Performance Research (CPR). He has produced and organized numerous conferences, workshops, festivals and tours of theatre and dance companies across the past forty-five years and he has directed theatre productions, curated events and lectured in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australasia and throughout Europe. His own artistic-led research explores the interface between food, cookery and performance.
ISSUE EDITORS
Felipe Cervera is a Lecturer in Theatre at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. His research interests are collaborative academia (teaching and research), and the interplays of performance, technology and society, and has published widely on those topics. He serves as Co-editor of Global Performance Studies, and Associate Editor of Performance Research. Publications and artistic work can be found at: www.felipecervera.me
Michael Earley has been Dean of Performing Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore since 2018. He was previously Principal of Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance in London, Publishing Director of Methuen Drama and Director of the Theatre Studies Program at Yale University in the US.
Elizabeth de Roza is an artist-scholar and the Head of Performing Arts Research and Postgraduate Studies Coordinator at HKAPA (Hong Kong). Her practice-research focus on cross-cultural embodied experiences/thinking and writing at the intersections of both decolonial and feminist theories. She also co-convenes the Embodied Research Working Group within the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR): www.elizabethderoza.com
CONTRIBUTORS
Natalie Alvarez is Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies in the School of Performance at Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is author, co-editor and editor of four award-winning books, including Immersions in Cultural Difference: Tourism, war, performance (University of Michigan Press, 2018) and Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times: Performance actions in the Americas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
Electa Woodbridge Behrens is the Programme Leader for the BA Acting at Norwegian Theatre Academy. She has performed with companies and artists throughout Europe and the USA, including Odin Teatret, Richard Schechner, Marina Abramovic and the CPR, and published in journals such as Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. Her research areas include intercultural training, sonic dramaturgies, voice and darkness.
Ilaria Bessone is a circus educator, performer and research coordinator of AltroCirco – programme for the development and promotion of social circus in Italy. She holds a PhD in Sociology and Methodology of Social Research (SOMET programme of the University of Milan, Italy, and University of Turin, Italy). Her research interests focus on contemporary practices and reconfigurations of circus.
Laura Bissell is Interim Head of Contemporary Performance Practice BA (Hons) and Lecturer in Research at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS). Laura has had her work published in the International Journal of Performance Art and Digital Media, The Body, Space and Technology Journal, Studies in Theatre and Performance and Contemporary Theatre Review.
Patrick Campbell is an academic and theatre-maker based in Manchester, UK. He has worked with a number of theatre groups and organizations, including Triangle Theatre (UK), COSmino (Berlin, Germany), Contact Theatre (UK) and Teatro Vila Velha (Brazil). His co-authored monograph, A Poetics of Third Theatre: Performer training, dramaturgy, participation (Routledge, 2021) is written alongside Dr Jane Turner.
Thomas F. DeFrantz directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. DeFrantz believes in our shared capacity to do better and engage creative spirit for a collective good that is anti-racist, proto-feminist and queer affirming.
Moritz Frischkorn works internationally as a choreographer and researcher. Since 2015, he is pursuing an artistic-research PhD on ‘Expanded Choreography. Between logistics and entanglement’ at the graduate school Performing Citizenship (HafenCity University Hamburg, K3/Centre for Choreography, University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, FUNDUS). Collaborators include Maria Scaroni, Vladimir Miller and geheimagentur.
Gary Gardiner is a performer, director, producer and creative learning practitioner, working across a range of local and international contexts. He pioneers interdisciplinary social practice and contemporary performance work. Key themes in Gary’s work are critical and creative learning; knowledge exchange; equality and human rights; democracy and social justice; gender and capitalism.
Sarah Hopfinger (she/her) is an artist-researcher, working at the intersections of live art, choreography, performance, ecology, intergenerational collaboration, crip practice, disability, and queerness. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, with organisations including Battersea Arts Centre (England), South London Gallery (England), Imaginate (Scotland), Buzzcut (Scotland) and Earth Matters On Stage (USA).
Duncan Jamieson is an independent researcher, digital humanities practitioner, translator and editor. He has taught at the University of Exeter, UK (2006–9) and has been a resident scholar at the Grotowski Institute in Wroclaw, Poland (2008–12). Currently, he is Co-director of the non-profit organizations TAPAC: Theatre and Performance Across Cultures and Culture Hub (London, UK) and an Associate Research Fellow at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Felix Rose Kawitzky is a game designer, researcher and writer. They are a PhD candidate at the University of York. Their work explores the relationships between queer science fiction, collective storytelling and tabletop roleplaying games. They have a BA in Fine Art, and an MA in Theatre Making from the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Anna Jayne Kimmel is a PhD candidate in theatre and performance studies, at Stanford University, California, with an AB from Princeton University, New Jersey. Her writing appears in Performance Research, with reviews in TDR and Dance Research Journal. She serves on the Future Advisory Board to Performance Studies international, and as the reviews editor of Performance Research.
Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes is Professor of American Culture, Romance Languages and Literatures, and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His book Translocas: The politics of Puerto Rican drag and trans performance (University of Michigan Press, 2021) is part of the Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/ Drama/Performance series.
Adriana La Selva is a theatre-maker, a performer, a networker and a researcher. Adriana is working on a practice-based PhD at S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts & Media) – Ghent University, Belgium, in association with the School of Arts (KASK), where she is investigating contemporary performer training processes in relation to politics of embodied research. She is a member of The Bridge of Winds since 2015, an international theatre group led by Odin Teatret actress Iben Nagel Rasmussen and co-founder of Cross Pollination and The Parliament of Practices.
Cecília de Lima, after developing her career as a dancer and choreographer, is currently a Professor at the University of Lisbon, Portugal. She received her PhD in 2017 with research funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Her research work focuses on the relation of dance with phenomenology, cognitive sciences, somatic practices and artistic education.
Dr Andrea Maciel is a dancer, performer, choreographer, teacher and scholar. Her academic/artistic work investigates the physical resonance of space in urban landscapes through dance, performance and installations. She holds a PhD in Political Performance for the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO)/New York University (NYU) – Performance Department – New York University and a Postdoctoral fellowship at Bristol University with the research ‘City’s body writings’. She is the Art Director for Intercultural Roots and a member the Cross-Pollination Research Platform.
Angela Marino is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies of the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Populism and Performance in the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela (Northwestern University Press, 2018).
Joan Mills has worked for more than forty-five years as a theatre director, voice practitioner, performer, writer and educator. She was Head of Voice and Movement at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama for eight years and Fellow in Voice and Performance at Aberystwyth University until 2015. She directs the international festival Giving Voice for the Centre for Performance Research.
Marije Nie is a professional tap dancer, musician, performer, teacher and researcher, working internationally for more than twenty-five years. She co-founded the artist-driven research lab Radio Kootwijk Live, which operated from 2009 until 2015 in the Netherlands, is co-founder of Cross Pollination and The Parliament of Practices and since 2017, has been artist in residence at Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium in Holstebro (Denmark): www.marijenie.com.
Rachel O’Neill is a visual artist, scenographer and a visual dramaturg. Her practice is based in collaborative relationships where form and content emerge from a working process and in response to context or place. Her main interests are materiality; performance aesthesis, expanded scenography; site-specific and interdisciplinary practice; social practice and virtual reality in performance.
Thomas Pearce is an architectural designer and researcher investigating the performative and generative potential of technologies of digital capture, design and fabrication (www.thomaspearce.xyz). He is a Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. His work includes collaborations with theatre group Shunt, sculptor James Capper and the New Movement Collective.
Tony Perucci is a scholar-artist and Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA). He is the author of On the Horizontal: Mary Overlie and The Viewpoints and a co-founder of the Mary Overlie Legacy Project.
Franziska Bork Petersen is Assistant Professor of Performance Design at Roskilde University, Denmark. Her work explores concepts of the body, body modification, choreography, fashion and performance. She is the author of the forthcoming monograph Body Utopianism.
Shabari Rao is an independent artist, educator and researcher based in Bangalore, India. Her work focuses on the relationship between body, performance and knowledge. She creates work that is collaborative, devised and emergent. Her work takes the shape of performing, directing, teaching, writing and, more recently, experimental film: www.shabarirao.com
Jonas Rutgeerts is a dramaturg and performance theorist based in Belgium. He is currently working as a post-doctoral researcher in Cultural Studies (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven). As a dramaturg and researcher, he collaborated with, among others, Needcompany, Ivana Müller, David Weber-Krebs, Clément Layes and Arkadi Zaides.
Göze Saner is an actor, researcher, theatre practitioner, clown and lecturer in Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London. She holds a BA in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, and a PhD on archetype and performance from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her recent research investigates how solo performance can be reconfigured as a socially engaged, participatory, DIY practice.
Oscar Tantoco Serquiña, Jr is a PhD candidate in theatre studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he is working on a dissertation that explores sites of speech study, training and performance in the Philippines from the twentieth century to the twenty-first. A faculty member in the Department of Speech Communication and Theatre Arts at the University of the Philippines, his essays have appeared in Theatre Research International, Humanities Diliman, Kritika Kultura, the Philippine Political Science Journal and the Philippine Humanities Review.
Ben Spatz is a non-binary researcher and theorist of embodied practice. They are Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Huddersfield; author of What a Body Can Do (Routledge, 2015), Blue Sky Body (Routledge, 2020) and Making a Laboratory (Punctum, 2020); and editor of the videographic Journal of Embodied Research. Ben has more than two decades of experience as a performer and director of contemporary theatre and has been invited to present at nearly thirty institutions in eleven countries: www.urbanresearchtheater.com.
Peter Zazzali is the Programme Leader of BA(Hons) Acting at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. He is the author of Acting in the Academy: The history of professional actor training in US higher education (Routledge, 2016) as well as numerous articles intersecting actor training, culture and society. His forthcoming book, Actor Training in Anglophone Countries, will be released by Routledge in 2021.