PERFORMANCE RESEARCH VOL.28 ISSUE 5
ON SADNESS



Editor: After Performance
Published by Routledge
132 pages
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2023) 28:3
Softcover

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This issue is edited by After Performance, a research collective formed in 2015. We invited authors to (re)consider the relationships between sadness and performance, in particular through complicating performance studies’ established focus on efficacy, action and change. We asked instead, how might sadness re-articulate performance as ‘bearing with’ rather than ‘moving on’? Contributions in the issue take up the encounters between performance and sadness, mourning, melancholia, grief, grievance and critical negativity, in particular as they are formed through experiences of race, queerness, disability, decoloniality and the precarity of artistic labour. Together, they explore what sadness makes thinkable or possible when mobilised as a theory or practice of performance.

1 The Power of the Sad: Performance, bearing with and compassion
AFTER PERFORMANCE

8 When Melancholia Turns Black
NANA ADUSEI-POKU AND ALHENA KATSOF

14 Emotional Weather Reports: Online performance as affective practice in the MonoVlogs of Layeta Bucoy and Olivia Kristine Nieto
OSCAR T. SERQUIÑA, JR

23 Still Resisting Left Melancholy? Chinese New Leftist theatre’s inheritance and resistance in Che Guevara (Qie Gewala) (2000–1)
CHAOMEI CHEN

34 ‘It’s Not Because It’s Not There, That It Isn’t There’: Visibility and invisibility within Black flamenco performance
AMY SCHOFIELD

41 Performing Processions: Premonitions and palimpsests
LAURA BISSELL

50 Why Do I Keep Crying?
MATTHEW DE KERSAINT GIRAUDEAU

58 The Limits of Cis Compassion: The sad trans experience and its others in contemporary Turkish theatre
A. BERKEM YANIKCAN

67 Transmuting Trauma and ‘Alchemiz[ing] Inherited Wounds’: iele paloumpis’s disabled, diasporic choreographies of care
KIERA BONO

The Sad Choreography of Systemic Misconduct, from Cause to Affect
MARTIN AUSTIN

82 Women’s Work: The ‘inescapable presence’ of intimate partner violence
HEATHER SINCAVAGE

88 Through the Lens of Grief: Re-reading performance through pregnancy loss
KATHERINE NOLAN

93 Vivacious and Sad Dances: Yala jama and yala paatey as pre and post-burial celebrations of the Ga people in Ghana
TERRY OFOSU

101 Lockdown Theatres of Sadness: Case studies of precarity in artistic work
ILINCA TODORUT

110 Queer, Brown Dancing Bodies in a White Cube: Refusal and mourning in Gerald Casel’s Not About Race Dance
BHUMI PATEL

118 The Revolutionary Mourner, and the Collective Body: The performativity of grief in the Woman, Life, Freedom movement

SABA ZAVAREI

122 In Remembrance [Artist Pages]
EMILY O’HARA

126 Who Embodies Mourning?
HEUNJUNG LEE

127 Performance, Unknown Otherwise
CHRISTINE XIONG

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