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Tracing performance studies paths in Canada.
Since its inception as an institutionalized discipline in the United States during the 1980s, performance studies has focused on the interdisciplinary analysis of a broad spectrum of cultural behaviours including theatre, dance, folklore, popular entertainments, performance art, protests, cultural rituals, and the performance of self in everyday life. Performance Studies in Canada brings together a diverse group of scholars to explore the national emergence of performance studies as a field in Canada.
To date, no systematic attempts has been made to consider how this methodology is being taught, applied, and rethought in Canadian contexts, and Canadian performance studies scholarship remains largely unacknowledged within international discussions about the discipline. This collection fills this gap by identifying multiple origins of performance studies scholarship in the country and highlighting significant works of performance theory and history that are rooted in Canadian culture. Essays illustrate how specific institutional conditions and cultural investments - Indigenous, francophone, multicultural, and more - produce alternative articulations of “performance” and reveal national identity as a performative construct.
A state-of-the-art work on the state of the field, Performance Studies in Canada foregrounds national and global performance knowledge to invigorate the discipline around the world.
To date, no systematic attempts has been made to consider how this methodology is being taught, applied, and rethought in Canadian contexts, and Canadian performance studies scholarship remains largely unacknowledged within international discussions about the discipline. This collection fills this gap by identifying multiple origins of performance studies scholarship in the country and highlighting significant works of performance theory and history that are rooted in Canadian culture. Essays illustrate how specific institutional conditions and cultural investments - Indigenous, francophone, multicultural, and more - produce alternative articulations of “performance” and reveal national identity as a performative construct.
A state-of-the-art work on the state of the field, Performance Studies in Canada foregrounds national and global performance knowledge to invigorate the discipline around the world.
Details
464 Pages, 6 x 9
56 illustrations
ISBN 9780773549852
June 2017
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
"Distinguishing itself from the dominant national American and British inflections of performance studies, this volume's strong Indigenous component to its conception of performance studies in Canada marks out new terrain for performance studies internationally." Michael McKinnie, Queen Mary University of London
Laura Levin is associate professor of theatre and performance studies at York University.
Marlis Schweitzer is associate professor of theatre and performance studies at York University.
Marlis Schweitzer is associate professor of theatre and performance studies at York University.
CONTENTS
Figures ix
Acknowledgments xiii
INTRODUCTION
Performance Studies in Canada: Mapping Genealogies
and Geographies of Performance Culture 3
Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer
PART ONE: PERFORMATIVE GEOGRAPHIES
1 Calgary’s Cultural Topography: The Performance of a City 43
Susan Bennett
2 Xeyxelómós and Lady Franklin Rock: Place Naming,
Performance Historiography, and Settler Methodologies 67
Heather Davis-Fisch
3 Choreographies of Place: Dancing the Vancouver Sublime
from Dusk to Dawn 90
Peter Dickinson
4 Travelling Soles: Tracing the Footprints of Our Stolen Sisters 115
Julie Nagam
PART TWO: SPECTACLES OF NATION
5 The American Girl Comes to Canada 137
Marlis Schweitzer
6 Presumptive Intimacies and the Politics of Touch: “Strategic
Culture” in Simulations of War 161
Natalie Alvarez
7 Sochi Olympics 2014, Canadian Truth and Reconciliation,
and the Haunting Ghouls of Canadian Nationalism 184
Helene Vosters
PART THREE: REFRAMING POLITICAL RESISTANCE
8 Enchantment’s Irreconcilable Connection: Listening to Anger,
Being Idle No More 211
Dylan Robinson
9 On Political Performance Art and Rob Fordian
Performatives 236
Laura Levin
10 Occupying the Object: Leslie Baker and Andréane Leclerc
in Performance 262
Erin Hurley
PART FOUR: PRACTISING RESEARCH
11 Two-Way Street: The Icon in the City 287
MJ Thompson
12 on love: Performance as Pedagogy 316
Naila Keleta-Mae
13 Writing the Red Trench: Performance, Visual Culture,
and Emplaced Writing 340
Brian Rusted
14 Working Art - Working Knowledge: Doing the Visual and
Making the Material Matter 358
Pam Hall
AFTERWORD
Performance Studies and Canada 383
Ric Knowles
Bibliography 389
Contributors 435
Index 439
Figures ix
Acknowledgments xiii
INTRODUCTION
Performance Studies in Canada: Mapping Genealogies
and Geographies of Performance Culture 3
Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer
PART ONE: PERFORMATIVE GEOGRAPHIES
1 Calgary’s Cultural Topography: The Performance of a City 43
Susan Bennett
2 Xeyxelómós and Lady Franklin Rock: Place Naming,
Performance Historiography, and Settler Methodologies 67
Heather Davis-Fisch
3 Choreographies of Place: Dancing the Vancouver Sublime
from Dusk to Dawn 90
Peter Dickinson
4 Travelling Soles: Tracing the Footprints of Our Stolen Sisters 115
Julie Nagam
PART TWO: SPECTACLES OF NATION
5 The American Girl Comes to Canada 137
Marlis Schweitzer
6 Presumptive Intimacies and the Politics of Touch: “Strategic
Culture” in Simulations of War 161
Natalie Alvarez
7 Sochi Olympics 2014, Canadian Truth and Reconciliation,
and the Haunting Ghouls of Canadian Nationalism 184
Helene Vosters
PART THREE: REFRAMING POLITICAL RESISTANCE
8 Enchantment’s Irreconcilable Connection: Listening to Anger,
Being Idle No More 211
Dylan Robinson
9 On Political Performance Art and Rob Fordian
Performatives 236
Laura Levin
10 Occupying the Object: Leslie Baker and Andréane Leclerc
in Performance 262
Erin Hurley
PART FOUR: PRACTISING RESEARCH
11 Two-Way Street: The Icon in the City 287
MJ Thompson
12 on love: Performance as Pedagogy 316
Naila Keleta-Mae
13 Writing the Red Trench: Performance, Visual Culture,
and Emplaced Writing 340
Brian Rusted
14 Working Art - Working Knowledge: Doing the Visual and
Making the Material Matter 358
Pam Hall
AFTERWORD
Performance Studies and Canada 383
Ric Knowles
Bibliography 389
Contributors 435
Index 439
Winner
Patrick O'Neill Award
Canadian Association for Theatre Research
2018
Patrick O'Neill Award
Canadian Association for Theatre Research
2018
