Vol. 10 No. 1 (2024)
Issue Editors: Gretchen Jude and Lynette Hunter
This special issue traces the profound shifts in Western performance practices that occur when engagement with works from the East breaks down previous distinctions and generates new priorities and frameworks for understanding. In their focus on transcultural and intermodal ways of knowing, the scholar-practitioners contributing to the issue actively engage with Japanese performance traditions. Their articles offer critical perspectives on performance theory informed by ethnographic, anthropological, and historical methodologies, using approaches that open up the body as a site of profound importance for enacting transcultural understanding.