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Perform Design Act: Performance Design Provocations book cover

1st Edition

Perform Design Act Performance Design Provocations

By Dorita Hannah, Olav Harsløf, Jon McKenzie Copyright 2026
126 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

126 Pages 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Perform Design Act is a groundbreaking reflection on two decades of Performance Design as a transformative interdisciplinary field, challenging conventional approaches to creative practice and event-making. This illuminating collection examines the evolution and impact of Performance Design since its establishment as a university subject twenty years ago. The authors, pioneers in this... Read more

Foreword by Dorita Hannah, Olav Harsløf, and Jon McKenzie

Preface: Who Is Performance Design For? by Rachel Hann

1. Arts and Humanities Go Design: Perform It!
Olav Harsløf

2. Staging Critical Spatial Acts: What Is (a) Theatre Now We Call it Performance?
Dorita Hannah

3. Design or Else: StudioLab, Traumaturgy, and Platform Performativity
Jon McKenzie

Index

Biography

Dorita Hannah is a New Zealand-based performance architect, independent academic, visual artist, and designer.

Olav Harsløf is a former principal of the Danish National Theatre School & School of Modern Dance, the Danish National Conversatory of Rhythmic Music, and Performance Design professor at Roskilde University.

Jon McKenzie is a performance theorist, media maker, and transdisciplinary researcher and teacher at Cornell University.

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