Community Performance Reader

Petra Kuppers is a community artist, a disability culture activist and Associate Professor of English, Theatre and Women’s Studies, University of Michigan. She is the author of Disability and Contemporary Performance: Bodies on Edge, 2003, and The Scar of Visibility: Medical Performances and Contemporary Art, 2007. Gwen Robertson is Associate Professor of Art History at Humboldt State University specializing in 20th century and contemporary art. Her research and teaching interests center on rethinking the role of the arts in contemporary life.

• Part 1: Pedagogical Communities Part 2: Relations Part 3: Environments Part 4: Rituals, Embodiment, Challenge Part 5: Practices List of Contributors: Petra Kuppers, Gwen Robertson, Eugene van Erven, Augusto Boal, Paulo Freire, Gerard Delanty, Anita Gonzalez, Dwight Conquergood, Jessica Berson, Baz Kershaw, Nicolas Bourriaud, Becky Shaw, Cedar Nordbye, Devora Neumark, Theresa May, Ubong S. Nda, Marcia Blumberg, Graham Pitts, Ana Flores, Libby Worth, Helen Poynor, Lomas, Deborah Hay, Cynthia Novak, Terry Galloway, Donna Marie Nudd, Carrie Sandahl, Diane Amans, Jan Cohen Cruz, Rebecca Caines, Glenda Dickerson, Carrie Sandahl