TaPRA 2019

Self-Experimentation: Performing Gender, Beyond the LaboratoryAt once celebrated as an essential part of medical history and development, and repudiated for fear of controversy and backlash, the self-experimenter converts their own body into a site for experimentation and testing... Read More →

Frightful/Delightful – exploring pain and pleasure in high-energy physical performanceThere is a kind of anti-Nietzschean (if we ignore recent reappraisals of Nietzsche) reaction to notions of the actual or potential extremities of physicality in performance training. We are aware... Read More →

Climbing twisted ladders: Using DNA in performance storytellingFamily histories are changing. An increased understanding of the science of DNA can challenge or affirm a sense of identity. Performances such as La Messe Basse’s Siri use the science of DNA to ask questions about what... Read More →