Emergence and Restraint: Indigenous Performances during the COVID-19 Pandemic

During the summer of 2020, I intended to make my second visit to Iqaluit, Nunavut, to speak with people involved in performance and climate science practices, engage in “co-performative witnessing” (methodology after Dwight Conquergood), and work to make my doctoral research useful to communities in...

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Published in:Theatre Survey
Main Author: Wilch, Clara Margaret
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Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2021
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spelling crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0040557421000235 2025-05-04T14:29:09+00:00 Emergence and Restraint: Indigenous Performances during the COVID-19 Pandemic Wilch, Clara Margaret 2021 https://doi.org/10.1017/s0040557421000235 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0040557421000235 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Theatre Survey volume 62, issue 3, page 327-332 ISSN 0040-5574 1475-4533 journal-article 2021 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0040557421000235 2025-04-08T11:55:17Z During the summer of 2020, I intended to make my second visit to Iqaluit, Nunavut, to speak with people involved in performance and climate science practices, engage in “co-performative witnessing” (methodology after Dwight Conquergood), and work to make my doctoral research useful to communities in Nunavut. 1 Needless to say, that didn't happen. However, the limitations imposed by COVID-19 have also been opportunities for all of us in performance studies to renew our understandings of what it is we do. The pandemic has forced me to understand my dissertation project differently and to reassess the complex process of respectfully engaging communities to which I do not personally belong. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iqaluit Nunavut Cambridge University Press Nunavut Theatre Survey 62 3 327 332
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title_fullStr Emergence and Restraint: Indigenous Performances during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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