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
Jan Kühne works as affiliated researcher at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History, as well as guest lecturer in the Theatre Department of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). He currently researches multilingualism in literature and theatre and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the ongoing critical edition of collected works by the German-Jewish dramatist Sammy Gronemann, to whom Kühne’s last book is dedicated: Die zionistische Komödie im Drama Sammy Gronemanns (The Zionist Comedy in Sammy Gronemann's Drama) (2020).
Freddie Rokem is Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University (Israel), where he was the Dean of the Faculty of the Arts (2002–6). His major publications are Performing History: Theatrical representations of the past in contemporary theatre (2000) and Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking performance (2010). He has been a visiting professor at many universities in the United States, Germany, Finland and Sweden, and is also a practicing dramaturg.
CONTRIBUTORS
Minou Arjomand is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Austin (USA) and author of Staged: Show trials, political theater, and the aesthetics of judgment (Columbia University Press, 2018). She is currently working on a book about radio titled Radio Publics.
Avital Barak is a scholar of movement and performance, an art curator at the Israeli Center for Digital Art (CDA) in Holon and a PhD candidate at the Shirley and Leslie Porter School of Cultural Studies, Tel Aviv University (Israel). She also teaches in the Dance Department at Kibbutzim College. Her research focuses on the varieties of resistance visible in manifestations of movement in the public space.
Daphna Ben-Shaul, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University (Israel), is the head of the Multidisciplinary and the Interdisciplinary Programs in the Arts. Her research addresses civic and political issues, reflexive performance, performative voiding and site-specific performance, supported by the Israel Science Foundation.
Valentín Benavides is a choir conductor, a composer and Associate Lecturer of Musicology at the University of Valladolid (Spain). He has been the recipient of several international composition awards, such as the XXIV Cristóbal Halffter Prize. His research work mainly focuses on the presence of the past in contemporary music.
Tracy Breathnach (Evans) is a somatic performance artist, researcher and writer deeply committed to working with/in communities. Based in Wales for the last fifteen years, her work explores connection, trauma and identity through embodied practices. Tracy’s practice as research PhD (2018, Aberystwyth) explored narrative, rhythm and caesura in autobiographical birth-storytelling. www.tracybreathnach.com
Andrea Soto Calderón has a PhD in philosophy and is a Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory. In addition to her teaching activity, she is currently conducting an artistic research project at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona (Spain). Her recent publications include the books Le travail des images (with Jacques Rancière, 2019) and La performatividad de las imágenes (2020).
Lee Campbell has a PhD in Live Art and is a Senior Lecturer at Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London (UK). Recent research publications include PARtake: The journal of performance as research and Body Space Technology and Performance Paradigm. His first edited collection, Leap into Action: Critical performative pedagogies in art and design education, was published in 2020.
Cosimo Chiarelli is associate researcher at the Centre for Theatre Studies of the University of Lisbon (Portugal), where he co-coordinates the PERPHOTO research project and coordinates the theatre and image research group. His research mainly focuses on the intersections between photography and the performing arts from the nineteenth century to contemporary times.
Nicholas Fesette is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at Oxford College of Emory University (Georgia, USA). His writing is published in the volume Race and Performance after Repetition (Duke University Press, 2020) as well as in the journals Research in Drama Education, Teaching Artist Journal and PUBLIC.
Antonio Gómez Villar has a PhD in humanities and teaches Philosophy at the University of Barcelona (UB) (Spain). His lines of research focus on transformations of the working class and new cultural and political relations. He has published several academic articles and the book E. Laclau y Ch. Mouffe: hegemonía y populismo (Gedisa, 2018).
Christopher Grobe is Associate Professor and Chair of English at Amherst College (Massachusetts, USA) and author of The Art of Confession: The performance of self from Robert Lowell to reality TV (NYU, 2017). His current work addresses two topics: the theatricality of American politics and the role that artists play in shaping new technology.
Carlos Gutiérrez Cajaraville is Associate Lecturer of Music in the Musicology Department, University of Valladolid, Spain. His research focuses on musical emotions, with particular attention to melancholy, throughout history. His work ranges widely in terms of repertories, historical periods and methodological approaches, falling at the intersection of musicology, aesthetics and history.
The Ruth Kanner Theatre Group (based in Tel Aviv) is engaged in exploring its own surroundings by interweaving storytelling, physical theatre and visual imagery. The group’s re-examination of Israeli hegemonic narratives is performed through documentary and devised texts, in an attempt to give voice to the deep struggles of all the people who inhabit the land.
Esa Kirkkopelto is a philosopher, artist-researcher and performance artist. Currently, he works as a Professor of Artistic Research at the Malmö Theatre Academy at Lund University (Sweden). His research focuses on the deconstruction of the performing body both in theory and in practice.
Michal Kobialka is a Professor of Theatre in the Department of Theatre Arts & Dance at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (USA). He has published more than 100 articles, essays and reviews on medieval, eighteenth-century and contemporary European theatre, as well as theatre historiography. His most recent publications are Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, space, matter (Palgrave, 2015), co-edited with Rosemarie Bank, and A History of Polish Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022), co-edited with Katarzyna Fazan and Bryce Lease.
Kristina Kocyba studied German Studies, American Studies, and Political Science in Germany and the US. After working in the German Department of Technische Universität Dresden, she received a grant to pursue her PhD at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Her dissertation explores the reception of Lessing’s Enlightenment drama Nathan the Wise in American exile during World War II. Since 2018, she has been working as a Lecturer in Cultural and Literary Studies at the German Studies Department at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary.
David Levin is the Alice H.and Stanley G. Harris Jr Disti nguished Service Professor in Germanic Studies, Theater and Performance Studies, and Cinema & Media Studies at The University of Chicago (USA). His research focuses on the aesthetics and politics of performance in opera, theatre and cinema. In addition to his scholarship and teaching, he has worked extensively as a dramaturg and collaborator for opera and ballet productions in Germany and the USA.
Vivian Liska is Professor of German Literature and Director of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium as well as Distinguished Visiting Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Her books include When Kafka Says We. Uncommon communities in German-Jewish literature (2009) and German-Jewish Thought and its Afterlife. A tenuous legacy (2017).
Ivana Momčilović is a dramaturge, researcher, experimenter and educator based in Brussels. Her work is focused on the displacement of philosophy and art in various spheres of everyday life. She is coordinator of several collectives, including Collective E-I-Migrative Art (1992, Belgium) and Edicija Jugoslavija (focused on the theory/poetics of emancipation and equality + surrealism, 2009). In 2007 she initiated ‘PhD in One Night’, a platform of aesthetic emancipation for all (Finland, Belgium, Vis).
Noe Montez is Associate Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University in Massachusetts (USA). He is the author of Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018) and editor of Nothing to Do with Love and Other Plays by Santiago Loza (Seagull Books, 2022).
Nikolaus Müller-Schöll is chair of Theatre Studies at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). He taught in Hamburg, Bochum, Gießen, Paris, Florianopolis, Oslo and Rome and published numerous books and articles. Currently his major interests in research are script-based theatre, dramaturgy as politics and police and theatre architecture as built ideology.
Paul North is a critical theorist who teaches at Yale University. He has written the following books: Bizarre Privileged Items in the Universe: The logic of likeness (Zone, 2021), The Yield: Kafka’s atheological reformation (Stanford, 2015) and The Problem of Distraction (Stanford, 2012).
Falk Richter has worked for several theatres in Europe, including the Schauspielhaus Zürich (Switzerland), the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin (Germany) and the Théâtre National de Strasbourg (France). He also holds the position of Professor for Performing Arts at the Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen (Denmark) and is known as a political author who addresses pressing and controversial topics that affect both the individual and society. Among his most famous plays are Unter Eis (Under Ice), FEAR and In My Room. His most recent play is TOUCH, a coproduction with the choreographer Anouk van Dijk.
Arnon Rosenthal is an actor, graduate student and research assistant in the Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Israel. His main interest lies in the relationship between philosophy and theatre. He has participated in various theatre projects, most recently with Ruth Kanner Theatre Group and Haifa Municipal Theatre (Israel).
Diego Rotman is a Senior Lecturer, researcher, multidisciplinary artist and curator. His research focuses on performative practices as related to local historiography, Yiddish theatre, contemporary art and folklore and research creation projects. Since July 2019 he is the head of the Department of Theater Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Ashwarya Samkaria, currently working as an independent researcher, has a master's in English Literature from the University of Delhi (India) and in Performance Studies from Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi (India). Her ecofiction has been published by EcoCast (official podcast, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment), Benelux Association for the Study of Art, Culture and the Environment (BASCE) and Samyukta Fiction. Trained in the (neo)classical dance form Odissi, she has performed extensively in India. Her research interests are ecocriticism, performance studies, postcolonial literatures and creative writing. Her publications on ecocriticism in Indian fiction are forthcoming.
Julia Schade is a performance scholar and post-doctoral research associate with the graduate research training group Documentary Practices: Excess and privation at Ruhr-University Bochum (Germany). She holds a PhD from Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany) and researches decolonial, queer-feminist, (non-) human concepts of temporality and the question of their representability at the intersection of theory and performance.
Ruth Schor recently joined the Department of Theatre Arts at Tel Aviv University (Israel), after her work as Associate Professor at the Centre for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo (Norway). She completed her DPhil at the University of Oxford on Berlin’s theatre avant-garde and its Ibsen reception and has further published on the German Ibsen reception until today, Viennese theatre, as well as mental health care in Europe.
Galili Shahar, Professor of Comparative Literature, holds the Marcel Reich-Ranicki Chair in German Literature at the Tel Aviv University (Israel) and serves as the head of the school of Cultural Studies. His research and teaching are dedicated to study of German, Hebrew and Persian literatures.
Naphtaly Shem-Tov is Senior Lecturer and head of Literature, Linguistics and Arts at The Open University of Israel. He has published articles and three books: Israeli Theatre: Mizrahi Jews and self-representation (Routledge, 2021), Acco Festival between Celebration and Confrontation (Academic Studies Press, 2016) and Improvisational Teaching (MOFET, 2015 (in Hebrew)).
Mischa Twitchin is a Lecturer in the Theatre and Performance Department, Goldsmiths, University of London (UK). His book, The Theatre of Death—The uncanny in mimesis: Kantor, Warburg, and an iconology of the actor, is published by Palgrave Macmillan (2016), and his performance- and essay-films are accessible on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/user13124826/videos
Cassandra Tytler is an artist and academic. She works across video, performance and installation. She completed her PhD within the Faculty of Art at Monash University (Australia) in 2021. Her research interest lies in performance in and of video, and its potential to create a relational and aware politics of resistance.
Dorit Yerushalmi is a Senior Lecturer in the Theatre Department, the University of Haifa (Israel), and former head of the department (2014–20). Her research focuses on directing histories in the Israeli theatre; performance and theatre in 'wounded cities;' pedagogies of theatre in a diverse and conflictual social space; and theatre and culture construction.
Saba Zavarei is a writer, researcher, artist and journalist, who works across the media of text, sound, video, and performance. Stretched between London and Tehran, her work explores the socio-political structure of body and space in relation to the performances of everyday life, and contemporary urban condition. Her doctoral thesis is focused on gender norms, transgressive acts and public spaces of Iran. She has published many articles in Farsi and English and is currently working on two new books.