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Helen Gilbert's essay 'Let the Games Begin: Pageants, Protests, Indigeneity (1968-2010)' won the 2015 Marlis Thiersch Prize for best essay from the Australasian Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Association. Collectively, the essays in The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures offer a provocative argument for rethinking the paradigms that structure the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they draw - indeed how they are dependant - upon each other. Reading this book, one cannot help but feel that its essays are opening the first round of what will become a very significant debate. - James Harding, University of Warwick, UK The book repeatedly makes the point that the interaction of performance cultures is a political process, and yet it also provides solid empirical research and essays practically exploring specific productions. In this way it avoids obscuring experiences by crunching abstract data, and is able to provide a fascinating perspective on other countries and cultures via the study of performance. -- Anton Krueger, Rhodes University, South African Theatre Journal Assuredly an academic resource that must be considered requisite for any performance studies context committed to exploring cultures in all their diversities. -- Deirdre Osborne, Goldsmiths University of London, Theatre Research International

Helen Gilbert's essay `Let the Games Begin: Pageants, Protests, Indigeneity (1968-2010)' won the 2015 Marlis Thiersch Prize for best essay from the Australasian Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Association. Collectively, the essays in The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures offer a provocative argument for rethinking the paradigms that structure the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they draw - indeed how they are dependant - upon each other. Reading this book, one cannot help but feel that its essays are opening the first round of what will become a very significant debate. - James Harding, University of Warwick, UK The book repeatedly makes the point that the interaction of performance cultures is a political process, and yet it also provides solid empirical research and essays practically exploring specific productions. In this way it avoids obscuring experiences by crunching abstract data, and is able to provide a fascinating perspective on other countries and cultures via the study of performance. -- Anton Krueger, Rhodes University, South African Theatre Journal Assuredly an academic resource that must be considered requisite for any performance studies context committed to exploring cultures in all their diversities. -- Deirdre Osborne, Goldsmiths University of London, Theatre Research International

Helen Gilbert’s essay ‘Let the Games Begin: Pageants, Protests, Indigeneity (1968–2010)’ won the 2015 Marlis Thiersch Prize for best essay from the Australasian Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Association. ""Collectively, the essays in The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures offer a provocative argument for rethinking the paradigms that structure the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they draw – indeed how they are dependant – upon each other. Reading this book, one cannot help but feel that its essays are opening the first round of what will become a very significant debate."" – James Harding, University of Warwick, UK ""The book repeatedly makes the point that the interaction of performance cultures is a political process, and yet it also provides solid empirical research and essays practically exploring specific productions. In this way it avoids obscuring experiences by crunching abstract data, and is able to provide a fascinating perspective on other countries and cultures via the study of performance."" -- Anton Krueger, Rhodes University, South African Theatre Journal ""Assuredly an academic resource that must be considered requisite for any performance studies context committed to exploring cultures in all their diversities."" -- Deirdre Osborne, Goldsmiths University of London, Theatre Research International

Helen Gilbert's essay 'Let the Games Begin: Pageants, Protests, Indigeneity (1968-2010)' won the 2015 Marlis Thiersch Prize for best essay from the Australasian Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Association. Collectively, the essays in The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures offer a provocative argument for rethinking the paradigms that structure the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven, and how they draw - indeed how they are dependant - upon each other. Reading this book, one cannot help but feel that its essays are opening the first round of what will become a very significant debate. - James Harding, University of Warwick, UK The book repeatedly makes the point that the interaction of performance cultures is a political process, and yet it also provides solid empirical research and essays practically exploring specific productions. In this way it avoids obscuring experiences by crunching abstract data, and is able to provide a fascinating perspective on other countries and cultures via the study of performance. -- Anton Krueger, Rhodes University, South African Theatre Journal Assuredly an academic resource that must be considered requisite for any performance studies context committed to exploring cultures in all their diversities. -- Deirdre Osborne, Goldsmiths University of London, Theatre Research International

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Erika Fischer-Lichte is Professor of Theatre Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. From 1995 to 1999 she was President of the International Federation for Theatre Research. She is a member of the Academia Europaea, the Academy of Sciences at Göttingen, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina at Halle. She is also director of the International Research Center ""Interweaving Performance Cultures"" (since 2008) and spokesperson of the International Doctoral School ""InterArt"" (since 2006). Among her many publications are Global Ibsen. Performing Multiple Modernities　(2010), The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics　(2008, German 2004), and Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual. Exploring Forms of Political Theatre (2005). Torsten Jost studied theatre as well as journalism and communication studies in Berlin. He is a research assistant at the International Research Center for Advanced Studies on ""Interweaving Performance Cultures,"" Freie Universität Berlin, where he is working on his PhD thesis on the plays of Gertrude Stein, about which he has published numerous essays in German. Together with Erika Fischer-Lichte et al. he recently edited the book Die Aufführung. Diskurs – Macht – Analyse (2012). Saskya Iris Jain studied at Berlin’s Freie Universität and Columbia University, and holds an MFA in Fiction from Boston University, where she was the recipient of the 2010 Florence Engel Randall Award for Fiction and the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship for travel to Iran the same year. As well as writing fiction and non-fiction, she has translated and edited numerous essays and books for publishers in Europe and the US. Her translation of Erika Fischer-Lichte’s The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics was published by Routledge in 2008.

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