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Performance Interventions Series Editors: Elaine Aston, University of Lancaster, and Bryan Reynolds, University of California, Irvine Performance Interventions is a series of monographs and essay collections on the- atre, performance, and visual culture that share an underlying commitment to the radical and political potential of the arts in our contemporary moment, or give consideration to performance and to visual culture from the past deemed cru- cial to a social and political present. Performance Interventions moves transversally across artistic and ideological boundaries to publish work that promotes dialogue between practitioners and academics, and interactions between performance communities, educational institutions, and academic disciplines. Titles include: Alan Ackerman and Martin Puchner (editors) AGAINST THEATRE Creative Destructions on the Modernist Stage Elaine Aston and Geraldine Harris (editors) FEMINIST FUTURES? Theatre, Performance, Theory Maaike Bleeker VISUALITY IN THE THEATRE The Locus of Looking James Frieze NAMING THEATRE Demonstrative Diagnosis in Performance Lynette Goddard STAGING BLACK FEMINISMS Identity, Politics, Performance Alison Forsyth and Chris Megson (editors) GET REAL: DOCUMENTARY THEATRE PAST AND PRESENT Leslie Hill and Helen Paris (editors) PERFORMANCE AND PLACE D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr and Kim Solga PERFORMANCE AND THE CITY Amelia Howe Kritzer POLITICAL THEATRE IN POST-THATCHER BRITAIN New Writing: 1995–2005 Jon McKenzie, Heike Roms and C. J. W.-L. Wee (editors) CONTESTING PERFORMANCE Global Sites of Research Melissa Sihra (editor) WOMEN IN IRISH DRAMA A Century of Authorship and Representation Performance Interventions Series Standing Order ISBN 978–1–4039–4443–6 Hardback 978–1–4039–4444–3 Paperback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a stand- ing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Contesting Performance Global Sites of Research Edited by Jon McKenzie, Heike Roms, and C. J. W.-L. Wee palgrave macmillan Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Jon McKenzie, Heike Roms & C. J. W.-L. Wee 2010 Individual chapters © contributors 2010 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2010 978-0-230-00845-8 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-28409-2 ISBN 978-0-230-27942-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230279421 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10987654321 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 Contents Acknowledgements vii Notes on the Contributors viii Introduction: Contesting Performance in an Age of Globalization 1 Jon McKenzie, C. J. W.-L. Wee, and Heike Roms Part I Institutionalizing Performance Studies 23 1 The Many Lives of Performance: The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics 25 Diana Taylor 2 Interdisciplinary Field or Emerging Discipline?: Performance Studies at the University of Sydney 37 Gay McAuley 3 The Practice Turn: Performance and the British Academy 51 Heike Roms 4 Rhetoric in Ruins: Performance Studies, Speech, and the ‘Americanization’ of the American University 71 Shannon Jackson 5 Performance Studies in Japan 89 Uchino Tadashi and Takahashi Yuichiro Part II Contesting the Academic Discipline through Performance 107 6 Between Antipodality and Relational Performance: Performance Studies in Australia 109 Edward Scheer and Peter Eckersall 7 Critical Writing and Performance Studies: The Case of the Slovenian Journal Maska 122 Bojana Kunst v vi Contents 8 ‘Say as I Do’: Performance Research in Singapore 136 Ray Langenbach and Paul Rae 9 The Performance of Performance Research: A Report from Germany 153 Sybylle Peters 10 Translate, or Else: Marking the Glocal Troubles of Performance Research in Croatia 168 Lada Caleˇ Feldman and Marin Blaževi´c Part III The Power of Performance Practice 189 11 Performing Postcoloniality in the Moroccan Scene: Emerging Sites of Hybridity 191 Khalid Amine 12 Searching for the Contemporary in the Traditional: Contemporary Indonesian Dance in Southeast Asia 207 Sal Murgiyanto 13 Word and Action in Israeli Performance 222 Sharon Aronson-Lehavi and Freddie Rokem 14 Democratic Actors and Post-Apartheid Drama: Contesting Performance in Contemporary South Africa 236 Loren Kruger Index 255 Acknowledgements Putting together this collection has taken far more time and effort than we ever imagined it would. Working as editors who live on or near three distant continents, organizing our efforts across disjointed time zones, meeting face-to-face only at far-flung conferences, diners, and coffee shops – all of this has given us grudging respect for the collaborative effi- ciencies of multinational corporations. It has all come together – finally. For this coming together, we wish to thank first of all our authors for their work in meeting all (or most) of the deadlines we posed, for their patience when these deadlines were extended, for their understand- ing when there were misunderstandings, and, most of all, for their fine contributions to this book. We also thank participants and organizers of the academic events that helped shape our work and our thinking, specifically those of the ‘Internationalism and Performance Studies’ symposium held at the 2003 New York meeting of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education; the ‘Glocalizing Performance’ workshop held at the 2004 Singapore conference of Performance Studies international; and ‘The Stakes of Performance Research’ seminar held at the Chicago 2006 con- ference of the American Society for Theatre Research. Special thanks goes to Jessica Chalmers for co-organizing the ‘Internationalism and Performance Studies’ symposium. Along the way, numerous scholars have offered advice, suggestions, and criticisms of this project. We wish to thank in particular Rustom Bharucha, Josette Féral, Ric Knowles, Goenawan Mohamad, Richard Schechner, and Diana Taylor. Special thanks to Caroline Levine for her suggestions and input. Special thanks also to Richard Gough, Stephen Bottoms and Performance Research for supporting the publication of Shannon Jackson’s essay here. Our project received much intellectual encouragement from the Per- formance Intervention series editors, Elaine Aston and Bryan Reynolds. Martin Puchner likewise provided early editorial support and guidance. Our senior editor at Palgrave Macmillan, Paula Kennedy, ably kept us going even when things had almost ground to a halt. Penny Simmons, our editorial consultant, provided timely work on the text, and our indexer Joshua Taft came through when things counted most – at the end. vii Notes on the Contributors Khalid Amine is Senior Professor of Comparative Literature and Per- formance Studies at the English Department, Faculty of Humanities, Tétouan, Morocco. He is the Founding President of The International Centre for Performance Studies (Tangier), Research Fellow at the Institute for Interweaving Performance Cultures (Free University Berlin, 2008–10), and winner of the 2007 Helsinki Prize of the International Federation for Theatre Research (FIRT). Among his publications is Dramatic Art and the Myth of Origins: Fields of Silence (International Centre for Performance Studies Publications, 2007), and his essays have appeared in The Drama Review (TDR), Critical Survey, and Theatre Journal. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi is Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the Department of Comparative Literature, Bar Ilan University, Israel. She holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from the Graduate Center, City Univer- sity of New York, USA. She is a Fulbright grantee and a winner of a Dan David award for postdoctoral studies. She writes on medieval theatre, contemporary theatre and performance, and Israeli theatre and perfor- mance.