Pandemic Performance

Pandemic Performance chronicles the many ways that people are surviving/thriving through performance in a global pandemic.

Kendra Claire Capece is a New York-based writer and researcher with special interest in high-impact work that exposes injustice. Patrick Scorese is an independent writer and performance-based artist who also serves as the Associate Director of Development at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning.

List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Pandemic Performance and Aliveness as Art (Kendra Claire Capece and Patrick Scorese); PART I: America God Damn; 1. Imagining Decolonial Futures: In Conversation with Autumn White Eyes (Autumn White Eyes with Kendra Claire Capece); 2. How Do You Hold When You Need to Be Held?: Dance and the Embodied Practice of Grieving (Joya Powell); 3. (Re)current Unrest: The Fire This Time (Charles O. Anderson); PART II: Friction and Encounter; 4. Performative Allyship and the Foxes That Drool: In Conversation with Brittany Talissa King (Brittany Talissa King with Kendra Claire Capece and Patrick Scorese); 5. Theatre in Quarantine: Temporality and Nostalgia in Remediation (Patrick Scorese); 6. 'Come Be People in Space with Us:' Space-making as Mutual Art and Mutual Aid (Theresa Buchheister); PART III: Building a New Future; 7. On Composition, Conspiracies, and 'Dancing in the Light of Tomorrow': In Conversation with Ricardo iamuuri Robinson (Ricardo iamuuri Robinson with Kendra Claire Capece); 8. The COVID-19 Ruptured Art World: Sustainable Elements of Structural Change for a Transformative Future (Lee Painter-Kim); 9. Dancing In the Rubble: Post-MoMA and Otherwise Post-Pandemic Futures (Marz Saffore); Index