Performance Pedagogy
Objects, Transfers, Formations
Felipe Cervera (Anthology Editor) , Diana Damian Martin (Anthology Editor) , Eero Laine (Anthology Editor) , Theron Schmidt (Anthology Editor)
- Open Access
Performance Pedagogy
Objects, Transfers, Formations
Felipe Cervera (Anthology Editor) , Diana Damian Martin (Anthology Editor) , Eero Laine (Anthology Editor) , Theron Schmidt (Anthology Editor)
- Open Access
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Description
What does it mean to teach an ephemeral object like 'performance'?
And what might the teaching of performance have to offer to other kinds of teaching and learning in a changing world?
These questions are urgent in the light of profound changes, both institutional and historical, in the larger scope of higher education and the place performance may have in that setting and its peripheries. Through posing and seeking to answer these questions, this open-access book urges a reconsideration of the relationship between performance and pedagogy.
Each of the chapters considers an object and its role in performance pedagogy. The objects range from the concrete to the conceptual and open new ways of considering how to teach performance and how performance teaches.
The book features a unique construction - "interstitial exchanges" - wherein the authors of each chapter pose provocations and responses to each other through short essays between the main chapters, connecting the disparate objects of performance pedagogy and offering dialogues.
In this way, the volume opens conversations beyond performance studies, asking what performance might have to say about the objects all around us that shape our lives in the 21st century.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY NC-ND-4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
Table of Contents
By Felipe Cervera (Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore), Diana Damian Martin (Royal Central School of Speech and
Drama, UK), Eero Laine (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, US), Theron Schmidt (University of
New South Wales, Aus)
Interstitial essays on Performance Pedagogy and Concepts
Chapter 2: Concepts
By Maaike Bleeker (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
Interstitial essays on Performance Pedagogy and Mirrors
Chapter 3: Mirrors
By Heike Roms (University of Exeter, UK)
Interstitial essays on Mirrors and Cooperative Pedagogies
Chapter 4: Cooperative Pedagogies
By Diana Damian Martin (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK)
Interstitial essays on Cooperative Pedagogies and Rules of the Room
Chapter 5: Rules of the Room
By Theron Schmidt (University of New South Wales, Aus)
Interstitial essays on Discussion/Genre and Rules of the Room
Chapter 6: Discussions
By Felipe Cervera (Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore)
Interstitial essays on Discussion/Genre and Autodidactism
Chapter 7: Letting it Breathe: Guided Auto-Didacticism and the 3As of Bodyworld
By Frank Camilleri (University of Malta, Malta)
Interstitial essays on Autodidactism and Voice
Chapter 8: Decomposing the Voice: narratives of objecthood and being heard
By Electa Behrens (Norway Theatre Academy, Norway)
Interstitial essays on Voice and Half-objects
Chapter 9: Pedagogical Discontent in The Age of Déjà Su: Information as Half-Objects
By Kyoko Iwaki (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Interstitial essays on Half-objects and Zoom
Chapter 10:. Zooming out: the distributed, digital objecthood of teleconferencing environments
By Miguel Escobar Varela (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Interstitial essays on Zoom and Cohorts
Chapter 11: Performing Cohorts
By Robyn Horn (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, US), Eero Laine (University at Buffalo, State
University of New York, US), Yao Kahlil Newkirk (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, US), Dahye
Lee (The Graduate Center, City University of New York, US), Evan Moritz (University of Toronto, Canada), Bella Poynton (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, US)
Interstitial essays on Cohorts and Field
Chapter 12: Conclusion: The Fields of Performance Pedagogy
By Felipe Cervera (Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore), Diana Damian Martin (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama), Eero Laine (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, US), Theron Schmidt (University of
New South Wales, Aus)
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Feb 19 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350399303 |
| Imprint | Methuen Drama |
| Illustrations | 20 b&w illus. |
| Dimensions | 9 x 5 inches |
| Series | Thinking Through Theatre |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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