Performance Studies

A single stiletto is placed at the front of a classroom. Most of the students are women. Half have probably nursed blisters, turned ankles, fallen down flights of stairs as a result of trying to put this object to use. Everyone in the room imagines the shoe on a different body. One student imagines a [...]

“Street performance is annoying,” my roommate argued, “They guilt you into giving them money.” I could see the analogy he was making between street performance and people that rush up to your windshield and, without asking, scrub it expecting compensation. A large part of street performance revolves around revenue. Sally Harrison-Pepper describes how performers size [...]