This is the second book in the Performance and Communities series. An edited collection from academics and artists engages with both these notions of performance – that of identities in and through time and space – and of more formal instances of specific time-limited performances; textual, embodied, visual and communal.Each chapter focuses on an individual or group s mode of working and methodological practice of performance across a range of modes, disciplines and media from community opera to online queer performance, from anti-racist class-room pedagogy to 1980s cabaret in nightclubs, from community art projects in schools to community writing projects in transport interchanges, the performers, writers and creators represented here all engage and grapple with contemporary performance as a situated practice and as a problematic.The personal perspective of each performer directors, librettists, producers, writers, performers is explicitly located in a community and the book offers a series of case studies detailing socially engaged work that aligns with concepts of performance and community.
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