Performance Histories Book

Author's Note     ix
Preface: Pressing Tender Buttons or, How to Write   Claire MacDonald     xi
Towards a History of Performance Ideas     1
Performance, a Personal History     3
Bodies of Action, Bodies of Thought: Performance and Its Critics     24
The Wooster Group: A Dictionary of Ideas     39
Landscapes of the Twenty-First Century     62
Performance History     67
Hymns of Repetition     74
The Economy of Tenderness     80
The Solace of Chocolate Squares: Thinking about Wallace Shawn     94
The Theatre of Food     108
Aural Histories     121
Performance and Ethics: Questions for the Twenty-First Century: A conversation with Peter Sellars     123
The Universal: The Simplest Place Possible: A conversation with Romeo Castellucci     146
Art as Spiritual Practice: A conversation with Meredith Monk, Alison Knowles, Eleanor Heartney, Linda Montano, Erik Ehn     155
Art and the Imagery of Extinction: A conversation with Robert Jay Lifton     174
Mediaturgy: A conversation with Marianne Weems     189
Present Tense     207
Berlin 2000     209
Barcelona Contemporary     215
The Crossways of Istanbul     226
In Memory of Her Feelings     241
Art and Consciousness: A conversation with Susan Sontag     243