Performance and Phenomenology

Maaike Bleeker is Professor of Theatre Studies at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Jon Foley Sherman is an independent scholar and an award-winning actor and deviser. Eirini Nedelkopoulou is Lecturer in Theatre at York St John University, UK.

Introduction Maaike Bleeker, Jon Foley Sherman, and Eirini Nedelkopoulou 1. The Stage Struck Out of the World: Theatricality and Husserl’s Phenomenology of Theatre, 1905-1918 Pannill Camp 2. Movement as Lived Abstraction: The Logic of the Cut Maaike Bleeker 3. Process Phenomenologies Susan Kozel 4. The Actor’s Work on Attention, Awareness, and Active Imagination: Between Phenomenology, Cognitive Science, and Practices of Acting Phillip Zarrilli 5. Playing the Subject Card, Strategies of the Subjective Philipa Rothfield 6. Fleshing Dead Animals: Sensory Body Phenomenology in Performance Peta Tait 7. Vibrant Materials: The Agency of Things in the Context of Scenography Joslin McKinney 8. Doing Time with the Neo-Futurists Jon Foley Sherman 9. The In-common of Phenomenology: Performing KMA’s Congregation Eirini Nedelkopoulou 10. Transracial Intimacy and "Race Performativity": Recognition and Destabilizing the Nation’s Racial Contract Shirley Tate 11. Passing Period: Gender, Aggression, and the Phenomenology of Walking Gayle Salamon 12. Doing Phenomenology: The Empathetic Implications of CREW’s Head-swap Technology in ‘W’ (Double U) Sigrid Merx 13. Performance as Media Affect: The Phenomenology of Human Implication in Jordan Crandall’s Gatherings Mark B.N. Hansen