Animal acts : performing species today

Animal acts : performing species today /

"Everyone has an animal story--the pet they loved or hated, the wild animal that captured their childhood imagination, the nasty dog at the end of the street, the deer your uncle shot or your neighbor hit while driving. Telling stories about animals is part of how we tell the story of being hum...

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Other authors / contributors: Chaudhuri, Una, 1951- (Editor), Hughes, Holly, 1955 March 10- (Editor)
Imprint: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Animals in the performing arts.
Animal behavior.
Series:Critical performances.
Table of Contents:
  • Animal acts for changing times, 2.0: a field guide to interspecies performance / Una Chaudhuri
  • The dog and pony show (bring your own pony) / Holly Hughes
  • Commentary: Agility is performance art / Donna Haraway
  • Stay! / Vicky Ryder, Lisa Asagi, and Stacy Makishi
  • Commentary: What happened to the black dog? / Marla Carlson
  • Cat lady / Joseph Keckler
  • Commentary: Theatre of the Cat Lady who is not / Erika Rundle
  • With what ass does the cockroach sit?=: ¿Con qué culo se siento la cucaracha? / Carmelita Tropicana (aka Alina Troyano)
  • Commentary: Queer tales of a transnational Cuban cockroach / Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, Martina, Catalina, Elián, and the Old Man
  • No bees for Bridgeport: a fable from the age of Daley / Kestutis Nakas
  • Commentary: A new fable of the bees / Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson
  • Horseback views: a queer hippological performance / Kim Marra
  • Commentary: Kinesthetic intimacies / Jane C. Desmond
  • Monkey / Deke Weaver
  • Commentary: Apes like us / Cary Wolfe
  • Excerpts from Elephant / Deke Weaver
  • Commentary: A hero's death / Nigel Rothfels
  • Excerpt from Everything I've got / Jess Dobkin
  • Commentary: The great refusal and the greater hope / Jill Dolan
  • Excerpts from As the globe warms, an American soap opera in twelve acts / Heather Woodbury
  • Commentary: Zooglossia, the unknown tongues of Heather Woodbury / Ann Pellegrini
  • The others / Rachel Rosenthal.

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