![]() ![]() ![]() That is, survey classes can frame performance in the way advocated by Diana Taylor and others: as a mode of knowledge production including indigenous forms of cosmology that are not contained by Western European definitions of theatre. (1) This is not merely an additive operation but an epistemological one that questions the definition of performance. ![]() The recent incorporation of Latin American theatre forms into canonical theatre history texts attests to the fact that these performances are now a part of a global theatre history. It is an ongoing practice responsive to methodological and theoretical changes in the field and to the political conditions within which I teach. For this issue on hemispheric theatre history I ask the following question: How does one teach a theatre and performance history survey course from a hemispheric perspective? For me, this investigation has a long history. ![]()
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