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What is the relation between performance and pedagogy? What does the teaching of performance offer to other kinds of knowledge encounters and exchanges in our pluriversal world?

These questions are urgent in the light of profound changes in higher education and the place performance has in that setting and its peripheries. This open-access book spanning diverse educational and research contexts takes up the task of engaging performance pedagogy in the precarities of the now, by tending anew to the relation between learning, doing, and thinking.

The collection unfolds as a collaborative inquiry into performance pedagogy encompassing both the study of aesthetic events called 'performances', and an expanded notion of performance as pedagogy. In this dual approach, to teach and learn performance is to teach and learn how to do things with our words and actions, and also to teach and learn what things do to others and to the world. Performance pedagogy opens performance to the world, and invites the world to performance.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY NC-ND-4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Table of Contents

Performance Pedagogy
Objects, Transfers, Formations
Felipe Cervera, Diana Damian Martin, Eero Laine, And Theron Schmidt

Auto-Didacticism
The 3as Of Bodyworld and the Case of Invisible Hours
Frank Camilleri

Benches
Ambiguous Collectivities and Border Study
Diana Damian Martin

Breath
Half-Objects in the Age of Data Breathlessness
Kyoko Iwaki

Co-Creating
'Don't Become Like Me'
Vishnucharan Naidu And Adelina Ong

Cohorts
Performing Beyond Institutional Formations
Eero Laine, Dahye Lee, Robyn Lee, Evan Moritz, Yao Kahlil Newkirk,
And Bella Poynton

Concepts
Thinking Across Theory and Practice
Maaike Bleeker

Gathering
Affective Activism and Pedagogies of Protest
Alan Read

Moving
Using Objects to Engage with Conflict
María Estrada-Fuentes


Navigating
Institutional Violence and Asserting Equality Through Performance Pedagogy
Anika Marschall and Ann-Christine Simke

Performing
This Learning Thing
Charlene Rajendran

Schools
Time And Performance Pedagogy
Felipe Cervera

Scores
Rewriting The Rules Of The Room
Theron Schmidt

Storying
Learning on and with Country
Leanne King and Theron Schmidt

Studying
When Words Are Good Enough
Ella Finer

Unlearning
A Dialogue on Expertise, Activism, and Proximity to Whiteness
Letícia Ishibashi And Ella Parry-Davies

Visiting
Some Questions from Script Analysis to Ask Your Environment
Sarah Lucie

Voice
Decomposition And Narratives of Objecthood
Electa Behrens

Zoom
The Performative and Pedagogic Affordances of a Videoconferencing Quasi-Object
Miguel Escobar Varela

Product details

Explore Methuen Drama
Published Mar 19 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 280
ISBN 9781350399303
Imprint Methuen Drama
Illustrations 40 bw illus
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Thinking Through Theatre
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Felipe Cervera

Felipe Cervera is director of the Centre for Perfo…

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Diana Damian Martin

Diana Damian Martin is an artist and researcher, c…

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Eero Laine

Eero Laine is associate professor at the Universit…

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Theron Schmidt

Theron Schmidt is an assistant professor at Utrech…

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