Anna Furse is a veteran award-winning theatre artist and writer whose works are commissioned and performed internationally. Artistic Director of the new writing company Paines Plough for 5 years in the 1990s, since 2003 she has been Artistic Director of her own company Athletes of the Heart (www.athletesoftheheart.org), founded from an Impact Award for her sci-art by the Wellcome Trust. An early pioneer of British feminist performance (Bloodgroup 1981–1986), she worked closely with experimental dance as a performer, collective member of New Dance Magazine, and co-founder of Chisenhale Dance Space. Creator and Director of the MA in Performance Making for 20 years until 2022, she is now Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Among her many publications are Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration (2011), and Performing Nerves: Four Plays, Four Essays, On Hysteria (2021).

• PREFACE Eating Shoes - Herzog’s call INTRODUCTION Bearings - artists of the future, neoliberalism, cultural industryCHAPTER 1 Box-ing Clever - ethos, precarity, habitus, obstructionsCHAPTER 2 Body - lived experience, moving, presenceCHAPTER 3 Scenography - writing in space, materiality, auraCHAPTER 4 Site -city, drifting, transgressionCHAPTER 5 Engineering the Imagination - composition, interdisciplinarity, collaborationCHAPTER 6 Quality - assessment criteria, critical thinking, de-formingCHAPTER 7 72 Billionaires - festival, making it happen, worlding, archive, exitAPPENDIX Notes on contributors

Anna Furse is a veteran award-winning theatre artist and writer whose works are commissioned and performed internationally. Artistic Director of the new writing company Paines Plough for 5 years in the 1990s, since 2003 she has been Artistic Director of her own company Athletes of the Heart (www.athletesoftheheart.org), founded from an Impact Award for her sci-art by the Wellcome Trust. An early pioneer of British feminist performance (Bloodgroup 1981–1986), she worked closely with experimental dance as a performer, collective member of New Dance Magazine, and co-founder of Chisenhale Dance Space. Creator and Director of the MA in Performance Making for 20 years until 2022, she is now Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Among her many publications are Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration (2011), and Performing Nerves: Four Plays, Four Essays, On Hysteria (2021).

• PREFACE Eating Shoes - Herzog’s call INTRODUCTION Bearings - artists of the future, neoliberalism, cultural industryCHAPTER 1 Box-ing Clever - ethos, precarity, habitus, obstructionsCHAPTER 2 Body - lived experience, moving, presenceCHAPTER 3 Scenography - writing in space, materiality, auraCHAPTER 4 Site -city, drifting, transgressionCHAPTER 5 Engineering the Imagination - composition, interdisciplinarity, collaborationCHAPTER 6 Quality - assessment criteria, critical thinking, de-formingCHAPTER 7 72 Billionaires - festival, making it happen, worlding, archive, exitAPPENDIX Notes on contributors

Anna Furse is a veteran award-winning theatre artist and writer whose works are commissioned and performed internationally. Artistic Director of the new writing company Paines Plough for 5 years in the 1990s, since 2003 she has been Artistic Director of her own company Athletes of the Heart (www.athletesoftheheart.org), founded from an Impact Award for her sci-art by the Wellcome Trust. An early pioneer of British feminist performance (Bloodgroup 1981–1986), she worked closely with experimental dance as a performer, collective member of New Dance Magazine, and co-founder of Chisenhale Dance Space. Creator and Director of the MA in Performance Making for 20 years until 2022, she is now Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Among her many publications are Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration (2011), and Performing Nerves: Four Plays, Four Essays, On Hysteria (2021).

• PREFACE Eating Shoes - Herzog’s call INTRODUCTION Bearings - artists of the future, neoliberalism, cultural industryCHAPTER 1 Box-ing Clever - ethos, precarity, habitus, obstructionsCHAPTER 2 Body - lived experience, moving, presenceCHAPTER 3 Scenography - writing in space, materiality, auraCHAPTER 4 Site -city, drifting, transgressionCHAPTER 5 Engineering the Imagination - composition, interdisciplinarity, collaborationCHAPTER 6 Quality - assessment criteria, critical thinking, de-formingCHAPTER 7 72 Billionaires - festival, making it happen, worlding, archive, exitAPPENDIX Notes on contributors