Sentient Performativities of Embodiment (eBook)

Lynette Hunter is professor of history of rhetoric and performance at the University of California, Davis.Elisabeth Krimmer is professor of German at the University of California, Davis.Peter Lichtenfels is professor of theater and dramatic arts at the University of California, Davis.

Chapter 1. Weird Embodiment by Timothy MortonChapter 2. The Senses and Sciences of Fascia: a Practice as Research Investigation by Joseph Dumit and Kevin O’Connor Chapter 4. The Performativity of Performance: Doing Things with Bodies and What Words Might Do in Relation to That. A Lecture/Demonstration (Not for the Squeamish) by Jess CurtisChapter 5. Enminded Performance: Dancing with a Horse by Nita Little Chapter 7. Her Heart Can Lift Mountains by Beating: Form and Formlessness in Performance Process by Sean FeitPart III: The Body in Performance—Emergence Chapter 9. Kantor’s DIRECTOR: “I will be myself, but I will be with the actors” by Peter Lichtenfels Part IV: Bodies Walking, Bodies WritingChapter 10. Where Can Walking Be Taking Me? by Álvaro Iván Hernández RodríguezChapter 11. Walking with/Com-Pains: (Re-)(Em)bodying Missteps and Messmates by Ilya NoéChapter 12. Walking Home: A Feminist Tracing of Home and Belonging by Maureen BurdockPart V: Bodies—Critical Race, Politics and HistoryChapter 15. Presidential Dancing: The Bodies of Heads of State by Maxine Leeds Craig Chapter 16. Socialization through the Arts: Katherine Dunham as Social Activist by Halifu Osumare