In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of performance in the Americas. From plays to official events to grassroots protests, performance, she argues, must be taken seriously as a means of storing and transmitting knowledge. Taylor reveals how the repertoire of embodied memory conveyed in gestures, the spoken word, movement, dance, song, and other performances offers alternative perspectives to those derived from the written archive and is particularly useful to a reconsideration of historical...
In The Archive and the Repertoire preeminent performance studies scholar Diana Taylor provides a new understanding of the vital role of perform...
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-Performance- has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power of performance, Diana Taylor explores many of its uses and iterations: artistic, economic, sexual, political, and technological performance; the performance of everyday life; and the gendered, sexed, and racialized performance of bodies. This book performs its argument. Images and texts interact to show how performance is at once a creative act, a means to comprehend power, a method of transmitting memory and identity, and a way of understanding...
-Performance- has multiple and often overlapping meanings that signify a wide variety of social behaviors. In this invitation to reflect on the power ...
Diana Taylor offers the theory of presente as a model of standing by and with victims of structural and endemic violence by being physically and politically present in situations where it seems that nothing can be done.
Diana Taylor offers the theory of presente as a model of standing by and with victims of structural and endemic violence by being physically and polit...
