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Animal Acts: Performing Species Today

Edited by Una Chaudhuri and Holly Hughes 2014 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
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We all have an animal story—the pet we loved, the wild animal that captured our childhood imagination, the deer the neighbor hit while driving. While scientific breakthroughs in animal cognition, the effects of global climate change and dwindling animal habitats, and the exploding interdisciplinary field of animal studies have complicated things, such stories remain a part of how we tell the story of being human. Animal Acts collects eleven exciting, provocative, and moving stories by solo performers, accompanied by commentary that places the works in a broader context.

Work by leading theater artists Holly Hughes, Rachel Rosenthal, Deke Weaver, Carmelita Tropicana, and others joins commentary by major scholars including Donna Haraway, Jane Desmond, Jill Dolan, and Nigel Rothfels. Una Chaudhuri's introduction provides a vital foundation for understanding and appreciating the intersection of animal studies and performance. The anthology foregrounds questions of race, gender, sexuality, class, nation, and other issues central to the human project within the discourse of the "post human," and will appeal to readers interested in solo performance, animal studies, gender studies, performance studies, and environmental studies.

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  • 978-0-472-07199-9 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-05199-1 (paper)
  • 978-0-472-90110-4 (open access)
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  • Cultural Studies
  • Theater and Performance
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  • Animal Acts for Changing Times, 2.0: A Field Guide to Interspecies Performance
    • Introduction by Una Chaudhuri
  • The Dog and Pony Show (bring your own pony) by Holly Hughes
    • Commentary by Donna Haraway: Agility Is Performance Art
  • Stay! by Vicky Ryder, Lisa Asagi, and Stacy Makishi
    • Commentary by Marla Carlson: What Happened to the Black Dog?
  • Cat Lady by Joseph Keckler
    • Commentary by Erika Rundle: Theatre of the Cat Lady Who Is Not
  • With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit? / ¿Con Qué Culo Se Sienta la Cucaracha? by Carmelita Tropicana (aka Alina Troyano)
    • Commentary by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes: Martina, Catalina, Elián, and the Old Man: Queer Tales of a Transnational Cuban Cockroach
  • No Bees for Bridgeport: A Fable from the Age of Daley by Kestutis Nakas
    • Commentary by Joshua Takano Chambers-Letson: A New Fable of the Bees
  • Horseback Views: A Queer Hippological Performance by Kim Marra
    • Commentary by Jane C. Desmond: Kinesthetic Intimacies
  • MONKEY by Deke Weaver
    • Commentary by Cary Wolfe: Apes Like Us
  • Excerpts from ELEPHANT by Deke Weaver
    • Commentary by Nigel Rothfels: A Hero's Death
  • Excerpt from Everything I've Got by Jess Dobkin
    • Commentary by Jill Dolan: The Great Refusal and the Greater Hope
  • Excerpts from As the Globe Warms: An American Soap Opera in Twelve Acts by Heather Woodbury
    • Commentary by Ann Pellegrini: Zooglossia: The Unknown Tongues of Heather Woodbury
  • The Others by Rachel Rosenthal
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This video contains excerpts from With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit? / Con Que Culo Se Sienta la Cucaracha?, written and performed by Carmelita Tropicana and directed by David Schweizer. Performances staged at the University of Michigan's Duderstadt Media Center, March 21-23, 2013.

With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit? / Con Que Culo Se Sienta la Cucaracha? [excerpt]

From With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit? / ¿Con Qué Culo Se Sienta la Cucaracha? by Carmelita Tropicana (aka Alina Troyano), Commentary by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes: Martina, Catalina, Elián, and the Old Man: Queer Tales of a Transnational Cuban Cockroach

Written and performed by Carmelita Tropicana; directed by David Schweizer [excerpt from the full performance]. With What Ass Does the Cockroach Sit? / Con Que Culo Se Sienta la Cucaracha? is included in the anthology, Animal Acts: Performing Species Now, edited by Una Chaudhuri and Holly Hughes and published by University of Michigan Press. Performances staged at the University of Michigan's Duderstadt Media Center, March 21-23, 2013.

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