Emergency INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 1

Emergency INDEX Contributors

Edited by Yelena Gluzman, Sophia Cleary

NONFICTION, PERFORMANCE  |  $40 $35

March 2012

Every year, Emergency INDEX invites authors to document performances they made in the previous year. By including performances regardless of their country of origin, their genre, aims, or popularity, INDEX reveals a breathtaking variety of practices used in performance work as it actually exists today. For readers, INDEX offers a cutting edge view of performance as it is used in dance, theater, music, visual art, political activism, scientific research, poetry, advertising, terrorism, and other disciplines. For artists, INDEX provides an opportunity to document the most important aspects of new work, without the need for spin or salesmanship. For anyone interested in contemporary performance, INDEX is required reading. INDEX 2011 includes 249 performances and a comprehensive index of key terms used to describe them. [INDEX 2011 Editors: Yelena Gluzman, Matvei Yankelevich; Associate Editors: Abraham Adams, Sophia Cleary]

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ISSN 2376-4287

About the Author

For a list of contributors and more information for each volume, see the Emergency INDEX website here.

If you have a performance venue you may wish to become a Partner Organization and share INDEX with your colleagues; please email emergency@uglyducklingpresse.org for more information.

About the Editor

Yelena Gluzman is a founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse where she is the editor of the Paperless Book Department, curates the Emergency Playscript series, and co-edits Emergency INDEX. Initially studying and working in neuroscience, Yelena began making theater works in 1997 as a continuation of her interest in the mechanisms underlying human behavior. Since 1999, under the initiative called Science Project, Yelena conducts research, makes theater works, performance art works, and site-specific social experiments. In New York, she has shown her works at The Performing Garage, Theater for a New City, the Old American Can Factory, The Collapsable Hole, the Prelude Festival, etc.

Sophia Cleary is a performer and choreographer. She curates the Rehearsal series. She co-edits Emergency INDEX.

 

Links

for more information or to submit to next year’s INDEX 

www.emergencyindex.com

 

INDEX history and the release of INDEX 6 at the Kitchen, in whitehot magazine.

Yelena Guzman on editing Emergency INDEX, in Contemporary Theater Review.

Publication Details

Trade Paperback
Perfect-bound. 560 pp, 6.25 x 8.25 in
Publication Date: March 20 2012
Distribution: Inpress Books (UK), SPD
Series: Emergency INDEX #1