1. World Pictures 2. Camouflage Acts 3. Performing Ground 4. Environmental Unconscious 5. Embedded Performance 6. Epilogue: Situating the Self Notes Select Bibliography Index
Laura Levin is Associate Professor of Theatre at York University in Toronto, Canada, and teaches in York's MA/PhD programs in Theatre and Performance Studies and Communication and Culture. She is editor-in-chief of Canadian Theatre Review and editor of Theatre and Performance in Toronto and Conversations Across Borders.
“Levin’s Performing Ground: Space, Camouflage and the Art of
Blending In arguably makes the boldest moves toward reorienting the
spatial analysis of performance. … Levin’s innovative use of the
notions of camouflage to understand a variety of relationships
between self and world will surely prove valuable to performance
scholars working not just in relation to place, but also to gender,
race, ecology, animal studies, scenography, photography, and visual
art.” (Fiona Wilkie, Theatre Journal, Vol. 67, December,
2015)'Performing Ground asks important questions about
environmental responsibilities, global and local mobilities,
boundaries, subjectivities, and issues of entitlement and
dispossession, while remaining sensitive to conditions of gender,
nationality, class, ethnicity and more. It argues persuasively that
we are never solo, but always figures in a ground, embedded in
dynamic and meaningful contexts, with responsibilities to others
and to our environments. It is rich, admirably ambitious and
fiercely compelling.' - Jen Harvie, Queen Mary University of
London, UK
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