In this Issue

Table of Contents

Provocation

Toward a Neo-Cubist Alamkara Movement in a Reality-Programmed Theatre Near You

Ruth Margraff
pp. 2-3
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TDR Comment

Philip Auslander Responds to "Concerning Theory for Performance Studies"

Philip Auslander, Richard Schechner
pp. 7-8
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Articles

Cold Chicago: Uncivil Modernity, Urban Form, and Performance in the Upstart City

Loren Kruger
pp. 10-36
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Building Utopia: Performance and the Fantasy of Urban Renewal in Contemporary Toronto

Laura Levin, Kim Solga
pp. 37-53
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Parkour or l'art du déplacement: A Kinetic Urban Utopia

Jimena Ortuzar
pp. 54-66
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Out of Hand: YouTube Amateurs and Professionals

Nick Salvato
pp. 67-83
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Live from the Front: A Poetics of Slamming the "Truth"

Carla Melo
pp. 84-97
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"Gypsy Music" and Deejays: Orientalism, Balkanism, and Romani Musicians

Ioana Szeman
pp. 98-116
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Raqs Gothique: Decolonizing Belly Dance

Tina Frühauf
pp. 117-138
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Student Essay Contest Winner

Rehearsing the War Away: Perpetual Warrior Training in Contemporary US Army Policy

Zack Whitman Gill
pp. 139-155
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Critical Acts

Isthmian Performances: Panama's Festival Internacional de Artes Escénicas

Sebastián Calderón Bentin
pp. 156-161
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Que le watcha los cabrones: Marking the 30th Anniversary of Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit

Shakina Nayfack
pp. 162-169
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Books

Small Acts of Repair: Performance, Ecology and Goat Island (review)

Nicholas Ridout
pp. 170-172
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The Last Performance [dot org] (review)

David Grubbs
pp. 172-174
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Anna Halprin: Experience as Dance (review)

M. Candace Feck
pp. 174-176
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Theatre and Slavery: Ghosts at the Crossroads (review)

Jane Plastow
pp. 176-177
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Contemporary African American Women Playwrights: A Casebook (review)

Nancy Cho
pp. 178-179
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Stage Presence (review)

Jon Sherman
pp. 179-181
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