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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.

Peggy Phelan

Peggy Phelan

Peggy Phelan

Born: June 12, 1948 (age 78)

Bio: Peggy Phelan is an American feminist scholar.

Known for:

Unmarked: The Politics of Performance (1993)
Mourning sex (1997)
Art and Feminism (2001)
Move: Choreographing You (2010)

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