Performance Making: A Pedagogy for Precarious Times

Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making provides a comprehensive insight on the impact the artform has had across the wider arts and humanities.

Anna Furse is a veteran award-winning theatre artist and writer whose works are commissioned and performed internationally. Artistic Director of the new writing company Paines Plough for 5 years in the 1990s, since 2003 she has been Artistic Director of her own company Athletes of the Heart (www.athletesoftheheart.org), founded from an Impact Award for her sci-art by the Wellcome Trust. An early pioneer of British feminist performance (Bloodgroup 1981 - 1986), she also worked closely with experimental dance as a performer, collective member of New Dance Magazine and co-founder of Chisenhale Dance Space. Creator and Director of the MA in Performance Making for twenty years until 2022, she is now Professor Emeritus, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her previous book for Routledge Performing Nerves, Four Plays, Four Essays, On Hysteria was published in 2021.