When family is all you have and then they betray you who can you count on? A friend? A new friend? Yourself? Jasmine Jaz Taylor made many choices beginning Thanksgiving Day in Detroit. Max, her best friend was along for the journey but the friendship was being tested. Everything seemed to have fallen apart. Some choices had to be made but was the price to high to pay? Her Nana always said "Don't write a check your lil butt can't cash" Jaz valued her Nana's sayings but even that was at risk. There are Consequences to our Choices as you read you may remember the Choices in your life and the...

Although the sciences have long understood the value of practice-based research, the arts and humanities have tended to structure a gap between practice and analysis. This book examines differences and similarities between Performance as Research practices in various community and national contexts, mapping out the landscape of this new field.