Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange

LAURA EDMONDSON Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College, USA ALAN FILEWOD Professor of Theatre Studies, University of Guelph, Canada PATRICIA GABORIK Independent Scholar, Italy JEAN GRAHAM-JONES Professor of Theatre, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA JAMES HARDING Professor of English, University of Mary Washington, USA ANDREA HARRIS Assistant Professor of Dance, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA KIMBERLY JANNARONE Associate Professor of Theater Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA ESTHER KIM LEE Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and the Asian American Studies Program, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA SIYUAN LIU Assistant Professor of Theatre, University of British Columbia, Canada. CINDY ROSENTHAL Associate Professor of Drama and Dance, Hofstra University, USA GRAHAM WHITE Reader in Drama and Creative Practice, Roehampton University, UK PRAISE ZENENGA Assistant Professor in the Africana Studies Program, University of Arizona at Tucson, USA

Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde.Assembling a remarkable group of scholars, these essays explore how the circulation and exchange of 'vectors of the radical' shape the avant-garde. Mapping the movement of scripts, theatre activists, performances, and other material entities, they provide unprecedented perspectives on the transnational performance culture of the avant-garde.