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Performance's only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved, recorded, documented, or otherwise participate in the circulation of representations of representations: once it does so, it becomes something other than performance.

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This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. At this still hour the self-collected soul Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there Of high descent, and more than mortal rank; An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Peggy Phelan

Peggy Phelan

Born: June 12, 1948 (age 77)
Bio: Peggy Phelan is an American feminist scholar.
Known for:
  1. Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (1993)
  2. Mourning sex (1997)
  3. Art and Feminism (2001)
  4. Move: Choreographing You (2010)

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