Performance Studies and Performance Art
Performance studies has a long-standing and complex relationship to the practice of performance art, also known as live art or visual art performance.
Some key companies and practitioners who are widely considered to be working within this field include: Karen Finley, Robert Lepage, Ariane Mnouchkine and the Theatre du Soleil, Robert Wilson, Forced Entertainment (UK), Pina Bausch, Trisha Brown, DV8 Physical theater, The Wooster Group (New York), Anne Bogart and The Siti Company (New York), and Jan Fabre (Belgium). Other artists, generally outside the European avant-garde theatre, who have been instrumental to the development of analysis in the field include: Carmelita Tropicana, Holly Hughes, Tim Miller, Annie Sprinkle, John Leguizamo, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Coco Fusco, Ruby Tru, Linda Montano, Vaginal Davis, Lois Weaver, Peggy Shaw, Anna Deveare Smith, Robbie McCauley, Marga Gomez, Dan Kwong, Diamanda Galas, Ron Athey, Reverend Billy, Ana Mendieta, Deb Margolis, Terry Galloway, Eric Bogosian, Danny Hoch, Quentin Crisp, Justin Bond and Kenny Mellman aka Kiki and Herb, Rachel Rosenthal, Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Rhodessa Jones, Bill T. Jones, Luis Alfaro, Reno, John Fleck, Keith Hennessy and Meredith Monk.
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