Stuart Grant & Jodie McNeilly-Renaudie 
Performance Phenomenology [PDF ebook] 
To The Thing Itself

1. Introduction; Stuart Grant, Jodie Mc Neilly-Renaudie, Matthew Wagner.- 2. The Essential Question: So what’s phenomenological about Performance Phenomenology?; Stuart Grant.- 3. Phenomenological Methodology and Aesthetic Experience: Essential Clarifications and Their Implications; Maxine Sheets-Johnstone.- 4. The unnamed origin of the performative in Heidegger’s interpretation of Aristotelian Phronēsis; Stuart Grant.- 5. A Phenomenology of Being Seen; Sondra Fraleigh.- 6. ‘A unique way of being’: The place of music in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception; Marc Duby.- 7. Foregrounding the imagination: re-reflecting on dancers’ engagement with video self-recordings; Shantel Ehrenberg.- 8. Sensing Film Performance; Sean Redmond.- 9. Phenomenologically absurd, absurdly phenomenological; Jodie Mc Neilly-Renaudie and Pierre-Jean Renaudie.- 10. On Not Being Able to Dance: The Interring; Robert P. Crease.-11. Performance Criticism: Live writing as phenomenological poiēsis; Diana Damian Martin.- 12. The Erotic Reduction: Crossed flesh in Lea Anderson’s
The Featherstonehaughs Draw on the Sketchbooks of Egon Schiele; Nigel Stewart.- 13. Sound Design: A Phenomenology; Christopher Wenn.- 14. Acting without ‘meaning’ or ‘motivation’: A first-person account of acting in the pre-articulate world of immediate lived/living experience; Phillip B. Zarrilli.- 15. Thinking with Performance; Ian Maxwell.

Stuart Grant is Senior Lecturer in Performance Studies at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He has published extensively in performance phenomenology, site-based performance, and other performance disciplines for over a decade. He is director of the site-specific performance company, The Environmental Performance Authority, and singer with the punk noise band, The Primitive Calculators.
Jodie Mc Neilly-Renaudie is a researcher and choreographer working at the intersection of philosophy and dance. She holds a Ph D in Performance Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia, and is currently completing a second Ph D in Philosophy on Husserl and religious experience at the Australian Catholic University. She has published widely in philosophy and performance, was co-author on Performance and Temporalisation: Time Happens (Palgrave, 2015), and writes dance and film reviews for Australian, Asian and European audiences.
Matthew Wagner is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of Surrey, UK, and is the author of Shakespeare, Theatre, and Time (2012), along with various journal articles and book chapters. His research focuses primarily on Shakespearean dramaturgy and stage praxis; it also extends to broader reaches of theatrical temporality and questions of embodiment and spatiality in performance.