Erika Fischer-Lichte is Director of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin. Małgorzata Sugiera is a Full-time Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, and Head of the Department for Performativity Studies. Torsten Jost is a Researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective at Freie Universität Berlin.Holger Hartung is a theater and dance scholar from Berlin, who works at the Hanns Eisler School of Music, Berlin, where he oversees digital transformation. Omid Soltani is a Researcher at the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" of Freie Universität Berlin.

• List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater HistoriographyPART I: Methodological Reflections1 Interweaving Stories, Altering Discourses2 Writing Entangled Theater/Performance Histories in the Arab WorldPART II: Hidden Histories—Forgetting and Remembering3 William Kentridge’s The Head & The Load: Theatrical Collage and the Color of Memory4 Hijikata Tatsumi at the Osaka World Exposition’s Pepsi Pavilion, 1970: Multiple Historiographies of a Lost PerformancePART III: Entanglements between Drama, Theater and Colonial Historiographies5 Disentangling Colonial Archives: The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore6 The Thorny Entanglements of Theater and Colonial Historiography in the Netherlands: Anti-colonial Critique and Imperial Nostalgia in J. Slauerhoff ’s Play Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1931)PART IV: Emergence and Transformation of Genres 7 Reversibility as Historiographical Method: Japanese Theater and Its Doubles 8 Plumbing the Past to Project into the Future: The Entangled Trajectories of Flamenco’s Twenty-First-Century Avant-Garde PART V: National Theater Histories—Entanglements and Disentanglements 9 The Interwoven Performance Culture of Algeria 10 Writing History as Disentanglement: Toward a Historiography of Modern Greek Theater Coda: The Whirligig of Tech: Theater as Media Archaeology Index

Erika Fischer-Lichte is Director of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin. Małgorzata Sugiera is a Full-time Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, and Head of the Department for Performativity Studies. Torsten Jost is a Researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective at Freie Universität Berlin.Holger Hartung is a theater and dance scholar from Berlin, who works at the Hanns Eisler School of Music, Berlin, where he oversees digital transformation. Omid Soltani is a Researcher at the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" of Freie Universität Berlin.

• List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater HistoriographyPART I: Methodological Reflections1 Interweaving Stories, Altering Discourses2 Writing Entangled Theater/Performance Histories in the Arab WorldPART II: Hidden Histories—Forgetting and Remembering3 William Kentridge’s The Head & The Load: Theatrical Collage and the Color of Memory4 Hijikata Tatsumi at the Osaka World Exposition’s Pepsi Pavilion, 1970: Multiple Historiographies of a Lost PerformancePART III: Entanglements between Drama, Theater and Colonial Historiographies5 Disentangling Colonial Archives: The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore6 The Thorny Entanglements of Theater and Colonial Historiography in the Netherlands: Anti-colonial Critique and Imperial Nostalgia in J. Slauerhoff ’s Play Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1931)PART IV: Emergence and Transformation of Genres 7 Reversibility as Historiographical Method: Japanese Theater and Its Doubles 8 Plumbing the Past to Project into the Future: The Entangled Trajectories of Flamenco’s Twenty-First-Century Avant-Garde PART V: National Theater Histories—Entanglements and Disentanglements 9 The Interwoven Performance Culture of Algeria 10 Writing History as Disentanglement: Toward a Historiography of Modern Greek Theater Coda: The Whirligig of Tech: Theater as Media Archaeology Index

Erika Fischer-Lichte is Director of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin. Małgorzata Sugiera is a Full-time Professor at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, and Head of the Department for Performativity Studies. Torsten Jost is a Researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective at Freie Universität Berlin.Holger Hartung is a theater and dance scholar from Berlin, who works at the Hanns Eisler School of Music, Berlin, where he oversees digital transformation. Omid Soltani is a Researcher at the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" of Freie Universität Berlin.

• List of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater HistoriographyPART I: Methodological Reflections1 Interweaving Stories, Altering Discourses2 Writing Entangled Theater/Performance Histories in the Arab WorldPART II: Hidden Histories—Forgetting and Remembering3 William Kentridge’s The Head & The Load: Theatrical Collage and the Color of Memory4 Hijikata Tatsumi at the Osaka World Exposition’s Pepsi Pavilion, 1970: Multiple Historiographies of a Lost PerformancePART III: Entanglements between Drama, Theater and Colonial Historiographies5 Disentangling Colonial Archives: The Combustible Affair of Ensuring/Insuring Theater Safety in Colonial Singapore6 The Thorny Entanglements of Theater and Colonial Historiography in the Netherlands: Anti-colonial Critique and Imperial Nostalgia in J. Slauerhoff ’s Play Jan Pieterszoon Coen (1931)PART IV: Emergence and Transformation of Genres 7 Reversibility as Historiographical Method: Japanese Theater and Its Doubles 8 Plumbing the Past to Project into the Future: The Entangled Trajectories of Flamenco’s Twenty-First-Century Avant-Garde PART V: National Theater Histories—Entanglements and Disentanglements 9 The Interwoven Performance Culture of Algeria 10 Writing History as Disentanglement: Toward a Historiography of Modern Greek Theater Coda: The Whirligig of Tech: Theater as Media Archaeology Index