Dena Davida co-founded, directed, and is currently the in-house curator of Tangente, Québec's first dance presenting organization. She also co-founded the CanDance touring network, and co-founded and co-programmed the Festival international de nouvelle danse de Montréal from 1985 to 2005. She has taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal for over 25 years.

List of illustrations

Prologue: Bethinking One's Own Strengths: The Performative Potential of Curating
Florian Malzacher

Acknowledgments

A Collective Introduction
Dena Davida, Jane Gabriels, Véronique Hudon, and Marc Pronovost

A NOTE ON CURATORIAL STATEMENTS-A THIRD SPACE: CHASING THE INTANGIBLE
Michèle Steinwald and Michael Trent

PART I: HISTORICAL FRAMINGS

Chapter 1. From Context to Concept: The Emergence of the Performance Curator
Bertie Ferdman

CURIOSITY AND INTUITION
Marie Claire Forté

Chapter 2. Exhibiting Performances: Process and Valorisation in When Attitudes Become Forms-Bern 1969 / Venice 2013
Beatrice von Bismarck

Chapter 3. Can We Curate Dance without Making a Festival?: On Dance Curatorship and Its Shifting Borders
Elisa Ricci

Chapter 4. Curating Performance from Africa for International Stages: Thoughts on Artistic Categories and Critical Discourse
'Funmi Adewole with Jareh Das

UNTITLED
Isabel Sachs

Chapter 5. The Curating Nation: Emergence of Performance Curation in Singapore and Its Impact on Cultural Politics
Ken Takiguchi

Chapter 6. The Curatorial Chronotope
Peter Dickinson

LAYERS
Harun Morrison

Chapter 7. More Weirdness, More Joy: Performance Curation and Pedagogy at Danspace Project and the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance
Judy Hussie-Taylor

PART II: ETHICAL PROPOSALS

Chapter 8. Dancing the Museum
Thomas F. DeFrantz

Chapter 9. Curatorial Discourse and Equity: Tensions in Contemporary Dance Presenting in the United States
Naomi Jackson

HOLY MOTOR-A MECHANICAL METAPHOR SURROUNDING THE LIVE ARTS CURATOR
Cécile Tonizzo

Chapter 10. Noticing the Feedback: A Proposal to the Contemporary Dance Field, and/ or This Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced
Michèle Steinwald

Chapter 11. Email to a Curator: An Introduction to The Curator's Piece
Tea Tupajic & Petra Zanki

CURATING LIVENESS
Victoria Mohr-Blakeney

Chapter 12. Curation as a Form of Artistic Practice: Context as a New Work through UK-based Forest Fringe
Deborah Pearson

PART III: THE ARTIST-CURATORS

Chapter 13. The Artist-Curator, or the Philosophy of 'Do-It-Yourself'
Julie Bawin

"SOFT CURATION," POLLINATION, AND RHIZOMES
Yves Sheriff

Chapter 14. Being in Vanguard of Sensibility: Artists as Curators in Performing Arts-A Study of Collective Affect
Kasia Tórz

Chapter 15. Familias: Artist-Activist Curation in the South Bronx, New York
Jane Gabriels

Chapter 16. What We Talk About When We Talk About Curating the 'Unexpected'
Syreeta McFadden

GREATER THAN
Shoshona Currier

Chapter 17. Because I love Art, I Want Art to be Different. The Project Perverse Curating and a Few Things I've Learned From It
Jacob Wren

Chapter 18. Making Stage: Contemporary Dance and Performance Curation in the Caribbean
Makeda Thomas

AS WE
Nadège Grebmeier Forget

Chapter 19. The Work of the Musician-Curator and the Notion of the "Concert Scenario"
Marie-Hélène Breault

Chapter 20. Pseudo-, Anti-, and Total Dance: A Self-Interview on Curation
SALTA

Chapter 21. Collective Creation and Improvised Curation: A Discussion with Body Slam
Body Slam Dance Improv Collective: Gregory Selinger, Helen Simard, Roger White, Xavier Laporte, Victoria Mackenzie, and Claudia Chan Tak

PART IV: EXHIBITIONS AS EVENTS

Chapter 22. A New Kind of Critical Elsewhere
Travis Chamberlain

Chapter 23. Re-enact History? Performing the Archive!
Julia Kurz

Chapter 24. Choreographing Archives, Curating Choreographers: Yvonne Rainer, Xavier Le Roy, and the Dance Retrospective
Fabien Maltais-Bayda and Joseph Henry

THE TITLE AS THE CURATOR'S ART PIECE
Steve Giasson

Chapter 25. Exhibiting Dance, Performing Objects: Cultural Mediation in the Museum
Erin Joelle McCurdy

Chapter 26. The Curator's Work: Stories and Experiences of Tino Sehgal's Events
Véronique Hudon

PART V: ARTIVISM

Chapter 27. Framing a Network, Charting Dis/Courses: Performance Curation, Community Work, and the Logic/Anxieties of an Emerging Field
Roselle Pineda

CURATE
Natalie Doonan

Chapter 28. Food=Need: Constraints, Reflexivity, and Community Performance
Pam Patterson

Chapter 29. ARC.HIVE of Contemporary Arab Performing Arts: Memory, Catastrophe, Resistance and Oblivion
Adham Hafez

Chapter 30. Collective Walks / Spaces of Contestation: Site-Specificity, Community Involvement, and Mobility Employed as Curatorial Strategies in the Creation of Participatory Performances
Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte

Chapter 31. Sound Citizen: Curating Sound Art in the Distributed Public Sphere
Morten Søndergaard

CURATION AS A PRACTICE OF RADICAL CARE: A DEFINITION
Nicole L. Martin

PART VI: INSTITUTIONAL REINVENTIONS

Chapter 32. Rethinking the Role of Institutions and Curators in a New Interdisciplinary Age
Philip Bither

Chapter 33. The Curator as a Culture Producer
Marta Keil

DEFINITION OF CURATION
SALTA

Chapter 34. How to Build a Manifesto for the Future of a Festival

"Festivals as Thinking Entities," a Conversation with Judith Blackenberg, Daniel Blanga-Gubbay, Silvia Bottiroli, Livia Andrea Piazza, initiated by Silvia Bottiroli and Berno Odo Polzer

Silvia Bottiroli

Chapter 35. The Curatorial Gesture as a Decolonial Gesture
Arnaldo Rodriguez Bagué

PROPOSING INTERVALS-CURATING AS CHOREOGRAPHY
Gabriele Brandstetter

Chapter 36. Are You Not Entertained?: Curating Performance within the Institution
Rie Hovmann Rasmussen

Chapter 37. Bodies in Museums: Institutional Practices and Politics
Véronique Hudon with Boris Charmatz

CURATING HISTORY, CURATING RESISTANCE
Jaamil Kosoko

Chapter 38. What Can Contemporary Art Perform? And Then Transgress?
Emelie Chhangur

Epilogue: Situation Critical: What Comes Next for the Field of Performance Curation?
Tom Sellar

THE PARABLE OF THE CURATOR
Michel Herreria (drawing) and Jean-Paul Rathier (text)

Index