TDR 

About: TDR is an academic journal published by The MIT Press. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Dance & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 1054-2043. Over the lifetime, 2135 publications have been published receiving 15623 citations. The journal is also known as: Drama review.

Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research

Abstract: “Only middle-class academics could blithely assume that all the world is a text,” writes one of performance studies' leading figures. Conquergood argues for a hybrid discipline that celebrates experience and commingles the analytic and the artistic.

Of Time and Mime: A Polylog on Festivity@@@Carnival and Theater: Plebeian Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England@@@Carnival!@@@Time out of Time: Essays on the Festival

Abstract: Festival is an indigenous event in virtually all human cultures. So argues Alessandro Falassi in anthologizing these twenty-five wide-ranging essays aimed at capturing and dissecting the \"special reality\" of the festival. Individually, each piece offers a detailed, ethnographic view of one or more such events and the cultural ethos which engendered them. In sum, the collection amounts to a dizzying 'round-the-world tour of festival, zigzagging from Carnival in Rome to Carnaval in Rio; from the rite of female circumcision among the Guer6 of the Ivory Coast to the \"Nazi festival\" of the 1936 Berlin Olympics; from the pilgrimage of the Raab in desert Algeria to the Doo Dah Parade in rosy Pasadena. In their variety alone, the essays provide convincing evidence of the limitlessness of festival, even as they raise concerns about its survival in the emerging global village. In casting such a wide net, Falassi faces the familiar editorial challenge of organizing his diverse materials in a meaningful, or at least coherent, fashion. He divides the book into four parts: 1) \"Men of Letters and Social Scientists Reporting from the Scene of the Festival,\" featuring excerpts from Goethe, Huxley, and Hemingway; 2) \"Continuity and Change: The Emergence of New Festivals,\" containing reports on seven attempts to create tradition; 3) \"Signs and Symbols of the Festival,\" offering poststructuralist theoretical speculations; and 4) \"Social Functions and Ritual Meanings of the Festival,\" presenting another set of reports from the field, this time by less eminent, more academic writers. Falassi's compendious introduction helps to unify the book and will no doubt become a much-used reference in itself. After stipulating a scholarly definition of festival, he enumerates the four cardinal points of festive behavior: rehearsal, intensification, tresspassing, and abstinence. \"At festive times,\" Falassi argues, \"people do something they normally do not; they abstain from something they normally do; they carry to extremes behaviors that are usually regulated by measure; they invert patterns of daily social life.\" Falassi then sketches a morphology of festival, analogous to Vladimir Propp's work on the folktale. This list of festival's building blocks includes rites of purification, of passage, of reversal, of conspicuous display and consumption, of exchange, and of competition. A framing ritual, such as a parade, often opens and closes a festival as a way of marking the transition in and out of \"festival time,\" an autonomous temporal zone which divides time on its own terms rather than by those of a clockbound world-hence a

Precarity Talk: A Virtual Roundtable with Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, Bojana Cvejić, Isabell Lorey, Jasbir Puar, and Ana Vujanović

Abstract: With reference to the ongoing economic “crisis,” several European and American scholars discuss the concept and politics of precarity. As their conversation shows, precarity is inextricable from our ever-shifting understandings of bodies, labor, politics, the public sphere, space, life, the human, and what it means to live with others.

The male dancer : bodies, spectacle, sexualities

Abstract: Revised and expanded second edition, with new chapter on late 1990s and 2000s, and new sections concerning whiteness, and the performance of gender and ethnicities, together with substantial revisions taking into account recently published research by other scholars.