Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2021.2005129
Sara Malou Strandvad, Tracy C. Davis, M. Dunn
ABSTRACT One of the most noteworthy characteristics of the mermaiding community, which has arisen since the early 2000s when self-styled performers started to impersonate the mermaid myth, consists in the performers positioning of themselves as ocean conservation advocates. Pictures constitute a main resource for this advocacy. But how can pretty pictures become powerful tools drawing attention to the critical state of the climate? What does it take to make and script such pictures? Which skills are necessary? Based on interviews with mermaids and underwater photographers, we explore how pictures become a way of spurring activism and care for the oceans.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2038795
Colin Whitworth
ABSTRACT This essay offers an articulation of and model for the author’s proposal of queer oral history. Queer oral history functions as a version of oral history that asks the practitioner to consider the benefits of methodological experimentation and to reflexively question their role as a researcher. Using the example of a solo show, Bless Our Hearts: An Oral History of the Queer South, this article offers an example of the potentialities within queer oral history as a performance method that queers methodology in a way that allows practitioners to reach a more ethical and dialogic approach towards performing the other.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2021.2025258
Shane T. Moreman
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2021.2025261
Ana Isabel Terminel Iberri
and cons. On the one hand, it allows each chapter to stand on its own; on the other, it raises questions about the utility of the collection for use in classes or for general academic readers. Similarly, I am not convinced of its applicability to the average performance studies reader, as the text’s contributions to the field are more peripheral than central. The chapters read like wonderful case studies to help illuminate our thinking about performance and place, performance in the Anthropocene, and eco-critical approaches to performance and theory. These topics are central to some but not all performance scholars, and the collection makes only tentative gestures toward building new performance theory. Performing Ice thus contributes to a conversation within performance studies by broadening the scope of that conversation rather than opening a new one. Those working within posthuman approaches to performance studies or those who have a vested interest in artistic research in, of, and through polar landscapes will certainly find a great deal on offer through this collection. For more general audiences, it might be of more interest to read certain chapters. I could imagine Performing Ice as a useful teaching tool at the graduate level or for topic-specific courses. On the whole, however, the text is not necessarily aimed at serving students, nor at reimagining performance studies. It is, instead, a capable survey of some of the many relations between ice, performance, humans, and more-than-human others. For those interested in performance and place, posthuman performance, and/or the culture(s) of icescapes, it is an invigorating and perhaps even catalytic volume. One thing is certain: this reader will never look upon ice – whether the photographed icescapes of the polar regions or that which accumulates on the shores of Atlantic Canada – without also wondering what performances might be mixed within its shifting reflections. And that, I think, suggests the editors have achieved their goal.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2021.2025263
Pavithra Prasad
populations, an ongoing pandemic, the undeniable effects of climate change—overwhelming us with one self-perpetuating question: how do we (re)act? In the aesthetic politics of collective performances under review, this question is answered not through prefigured didactic moralizing, but through a consideration of what interventions a politics of the everyday might equip us with. Generated from and within the texture of everyday life, the fragmentary and gestural idioms of the everyday present us with familiar yet complex modes of, and opportunities for, aesthetic intervention and ethical attention. They thus grant us an alternative, accessible set of tools and inspirations to pursue not an apolitical theatre, but rather a theatre whose ideological stance exceeds the divisiveness of overly simplified and polarized political ideologies. There is no straight line between art and political mobilization, yet there is no denial that how we make informs “what we make, and how we make matters” (147).
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2021.2025259
Joshua Hamzehee
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2038387
Chuyun Oh
ABSTRACT This article analyzes my six-year autoethnographic work in response to From Silence to Power in Austin, TX from 2013 to 2019. Performed by survivors of sexual abuse, the performance externalized trauma, recognized time via repetition, re-contextualized their minded-bodies and transformed from silenced victims to survivors. Kinesthetic empathy moved me to work through my trauma as a co-performer. I have written performance reviews, given three conference presentations and performed an autoethnography Dancethnography in TX, NY, MD, PA, and CA. This project evolved from ethnography on others, to autoethnography and to reverse ethnography through which I witness (im)possibilities of dance in speaking trauma due to decorative virtuosity.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2022.2041712
Elizabeth M. Melton
ABSTRACT The International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an all-girl jazz band that toured the United States from 1939 to 1949, was made up of a diverse group of musicians. Using a performance historiography approach to analyze newspaper articles and videos of the band, I argue the Sweethearts utilized a spectacularized racial diversity and femininity to respond to the perception that female bands were inferior to male bands and nothing more than a novelty. This argument hinges on spectacle’s relationship to theatricality, and provides a new way to situate Guy Debord’s screen in a theatrical logic – it is not simply a screen, but a scrim.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-02DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2021.2024245
Shane T. Moreman, Christine Xiong
ABSTRACT Dwight Conquergood’s ethnographic performance studies research, much of which featured Latinx and Hmong cultures, influenced the Communication discipline. Analytically critiquing those Latinx and Hmong representations, we reinterpret them through our lived experiences. Via three separate vignettes of our culturally forefronted academic lives, we depict how Conquergood has reified and expanded the discursive constraints of our academic beings. Centering on three types of text (urtext, text, and context), we argue that our Hmong and Latinx cultures were and continue to be foundational to a humanistic and humane turn in the study of culture as embraced and advanced by Conquergood and ourselves.
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