Current issue: Volume 30 Issue 2

This issue of Performance Research examines coalitions – artistic, political, institutional – and the performances that make them possible. Originally proffered by radical feminists of colour as an alternative to white feminism’s sisterhood, 'coalition' represents a fraught, power-laden process assuming incommensurability. How do we account for differences in collaborative pursuits without deploying a totalizing 'we'? Contributions explore contemporary manifestations of coalitional dramaturgies across micro and macro cosmoses: from institution-building models to leaderless artistic practices, from collaborative methodologies to entangled notions of history, ethics, pedagogy, curation and coalescence.

 

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1 Editorial: Who’s afraid of coalitions?

FELIPE CERVERA AND DUŠKA RADOSAVLJEVIĆ

 

7 Black Feminist Coalitional Pedagogies: Navigating crisis, history and performance in Black theatre education

MYSIA ANDERSON-WHITE AND MADISON MAE WILLIAMS

 

17 Experiencing ‘Communality’: Creating a coalition between theatre, research and civil society institutions

JÖRGEN DAHLQVIST AND SIMA NURALI WOLGAST

 

26 Dancemakers: An anthological approach to coalitional curating

CHRIS DUPUIS

 

31 Coalitional Politics and Ethics: Tania Bruguera's coalitional work and artist collectives

KATERINA PARAMANA

 

40 Towards Performing a Coalitional We

RENATA GASPAR, SOZITA GOUDOUNA, NILÜFER OVALIOĞLU GROS, EERO LAINE AND RUMEN RACHEV

 

48 Ethics of Coalition, Prefigurative Politics and Artistic Activism in Contemporary Chilean Street Performance

RICARDO ALVAREZ AND PAULINA BRONFMAN

 

57 Performing Coalescence

TOMAŽ KRPIČ

 

67 Coalescing: The making of an ‘IF Manifesto’ at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s New Interdisciplinary Fellowship

SCARLETT KIM WITH KATERINA CIZEK AND TABITHA JACKSON

 

72 Coming Together around the Table to Talk: Coalitions between dramaturgs in Flanders and the Netherlands

NOAH LENA VERCAUTEREN

 

78 Dear England: Coalitions of national failure

JASWINDER BLACKWELL-PAL

 

88 Entangled Technique: Material indeterminacy and embodied knowledge in experimental music performance

MIRA BENJAMIN, ZUBIN KANGA AND SCOTT MCLAUGHLIN

 

99 The Director’s Performativity: A creative strategy for dispersing power in performance making

MONIKA KLIMAITĖ-DAUNIENĖ

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REVIEWS

108 Pasivo Ethics and Queer Vulnerability: The theoretical interventions of Bottoms Up: Queer Mexicanness and Latinx performance

NANDO MESSIAS

 

109 Calling Forth a Care Revolution

ALISHA IBKAR

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111 Notes on Contributors