Performance and the City (Performance Interventions) [Paperback] [2011] (Author) D.J. Hopkins, Shelley Orr, Kim Solga

by D.J. Hopkins

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors City/Text/Performance; K.Solga with D.J.Hopkins & S.Orr PART PEDESTRIANISMS, OR REMEMBERING THE CITY Pedestrianisms or Remembering the Introduction; D.J.Hopkins Ways to Walk New York After 9/11; M.Carlson Memory/Memorial/ Lower Manhattan, 1776 / 2001; D.J.Hopkins & S.Orr Patricide and the Passerby; R.Schneider PART URBAN PERFORMANCE AND CULTURAL POLICY Urban Performance and Cultural Introduction; K.Solga Multicultural Text, Intercultural The Performance Ecology of Contemporary Toronto; R.Knowles Mission Broadway, 9/11, and the Republican National Convention; R.A.Rugg Performing the Civic Cultural Production, Governance, and Citizenship in Contemporary London; M.McKinnie PART PERFORMING (FOR) ONE CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITIES Performing (for) One Introduction; S.Orr Surviving the Press Agents, Publicity Stunts, and the Spectacle of the Urban Female Body; M.Schweitzer Dress Suits to Hire and the Landscape of Queer Urbanity; K.Solga Global Blur Street and Interurban Self-Portraiture (a photo essay); Curated by K.Irwin, R.Viader Knowles & L.Levin PART AT THE CITY LIMITS At the City Introduction; K.Solga Staging the Imagined City in Australian Theatre; J.Tompkins Agency and Complicity in 'A Special Civic Room': London's Tate Modern Turbine Hall; J.Harvie Staging a Vanished Daniel Libeskind's Scenography in the Berlin Jewish Museum; K.van den Berg 13 Can the City Speak? Site-Specific Art After Poststructuralism; L.Levin Afterword; B.Hodgdon Index

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First published May 12, 2009

About the author

D.J. Hopkins is a scholar whose research interests include Shakespeare in Performance (especially contemporary performance and Shakespeare on Film). His publications have appeared in TheatreForum, Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, and collections including Shakespeare After Mass Media, Performing Transversally, and Rematerializing Shakespeare. His book 'City / Stage / Globe: Performance and Space in Shakespeare’s London' (2008) is published by Routledge.

He has worked as co-editor on a collection of essays entitled 'Performance and the Global City' (released from Palgrave in 2012). This volume is a sequel of sorts to a previous collection of original scholarly writing, 'Performance and the City' (Palgrave 2009). Both collections explore the relationship between performance and the production of (urban) space.

As dramaturg Hopkins has worked with numerous writers, directors, choreographers, and theatre artists including Les Waters, Tina Landau, Joe Chaiken, Robert Woodruff, Chay Yew, Greg Gunter, Jose Rivera, Naomi Iizuka, Chuck Mee, Joe Alter, Liam Clancy, and Eric Geiger. Hopkins is the 2012 recipient of the Elliott Hayes Award for Achievement in dramaturgy, in recognition of ten years as editor of Review, the online journal of dramaturgy. He is now serving as co-editor of Theatre Topics.

Hopkins holds an MFA in Dramaturgy and a PhD in Theatre Studies, both from the University of California, San Diego.D.J. Hopkins is an Associate Professor and the Interim Director of the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University.