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Table of Contents

                            Contents
Introduction Perspectives on performance:Germany and America Marvin Carlson
Chapter 1: The transformative power of performance
Chapter 2: Explaining concepts: Performativity and performance
Chapter 3: Shared bodies, shared spaces: The bodily co-presence of actors and spectators
Chapter 4: The performative generation of materiality
	Corporeality
		Embodiment
		Presence
	Spatiality
		Performative spaces
		Atmospheres
	Tonality
		Aural spaces
		Voices
	Temporality
		Time brackets
		Rhythm
Chapter 5: The emergence of meaning
	Materiality, signifier, signified
	“Presence” and “representation”
	Meaning and effect
	Can performances be understood?
Chapter 6: The performance as event
	Autopoiesis and emergence
	Collapsing dichotomies
	Liminality and transformation
Chapter 7: The reenchantment of the world
Notes
	Introduction
	1 The transformative power of performance
	2 Explaining concepts
	3 Shared bodies, shared spaces
	4 The performative generation of materiality
	5 The emergence of meaning
	6 The performance as event
Bibliography
Index of works
Index of names
Subject index