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Performing Cities

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Nicolas Whybrow

    1. School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Writing Performing Cities: An Introduction

    1. Writing Performing Cities: An Introduction

      • Nicolas Whybrow
      Pages 1-18

  3. Urban Rhythms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Performing Palermo: Protests Against Forgetting

      • David Williams
      Pages 21-38

    3. Sprawled, Distracted, and Trembling: Performing LA

      • Sue-Ellen Case
      Pages 39-55

    4. Performing Paris: An Ecography of Meridians and Atmospheres

      • Carl Lavery
      Pages 56-79

    5. Performing Chicago: Seven Demolitions

      • Matthew Goulish
      Pages 80-98

    6. Performing Cape Town: An Epidemiological Study in Three Acts

      • Mark Fleishman, Jay Pather
      Pages 99-119

    7. Performing Cardiff: Six Approaches to a City and Its Performance Pasts

      • Mike Pearson, Heike Roms
      Pages 120-138

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 245-254
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About this book

Performing Cities is an edited volume of contributions by a range of internationally renowned academics and performance makers from across the globe, each one covering a particular city and examining it from the dynamic perspectives of performances occurring in cities and the city itself as performance.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies, University of Warwick, UK

    Nicolas Whybrow

About the editor

Sue-Ellen Case University of California, Los Angeles, USA María Estrada-Fuentes, University of Warwick, UK Mark Fleishman, University of Cape Town, South Africa Matthew Goulish, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA Silvija Jestrovic, University of Warwick, UK Carl Lavery, University of Glasgow, UK Laura Levin, York University, Canada Gay McAuley, University of Sydney, Australia Jay Pather, University of Cape Town, South Africa Mike Pearson, Aberystwyth University, UK Paul Rae, University of Melbourne, Australia Freddie Rokem, Tel Aviv University, Israel Heike Roms, Aberystwyth University, UK David Williams, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

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