The peer reviewed open access journal Performance Matters has just published its latest issue, on “Performance and Pedagogy,” at http://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our website to read articles and items of interest. Please also take note of our upcoming issues, listed below.
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Performance Matters
Vol 2, No 1 (2016): Special Issue: Performance and Pedagogy
Table of Contents
http://performancematters-thejournal.com/index.php/pm/issue/view/2
Editorial Notes
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Introduction: Performance and Pedagogy (1-4)
Peter Dickinson
Articles
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An Artist’s Ignorant Turn (5-20)
Malcolm Whittaker
Where Should We Start and What Could We Do?: Asian Performance and Pedagogy (21-37)
Xing Fan
When Actions Challenge Theories: The Tactical Performances of Sue Austin (38-50)
Mabel Giraldo and Dalila D’amico
Back and Forth: Mike Kelley’s Psychedelic Pedagogy (51-61)
Mary Anderson and Richard Haley
Towards a Performative Trans-Pedagogy: Critical Approaches for Learning and Teaching in Art and Performance (62-77)
Vikki Chalkline and Marianne Mulvey
Forum
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Performance in Philosophy/Philosophy in Performance: How Performative Practices Can Enhance and Challenge the Teaching of Theory (78-85)
Alice Lagaay and Jörg Holkenbrink
Improvising Philosophy: Thoughts on Teaching and Ways of Being (86-91)
Harmony Bench
Somatic Approaches to Academic Pedagogy: Notes from “Somatics, Scholarship, Somatic Scholarship: Materiality and Metaphor” (92-98)
Sima Belmar
On Failures (99-105)
Patrick Blenkarn
Reviews
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How Theatre Educates: A Review (106-107)
Kelsey Blair
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Forthcoming in Performance Matters 2.2 (Nov. 2016):
* Marlis Schweitzer and Joanne Zerdy on the materiality of light
* A special Forum section on dance studies in Canada Ÿ
* A review of Marvin Carlson’s Shattering Hamlet’s Mirror: Theatre and Reality Ÿ
* And much more
Upcoming issues:
*Performing Religion, 3.1 (May 2017), guest-edited by Joy Palacios; email enquiries to joy_palacios@sfu.ca
*Performing Science, 3.2 (Nov. 2017), guest-edited by Coleman Nye; email enquiries to anye@sfu.ca
 
Submitted by: Peter Dickinson