Autobiography Of A Performance

This co-authored work focuses on five performances developed by Blue Pieta, a dramaturg, artist and dancer and Bhanu Kapil, a poet, between 2022 and 2025. A public notebook of working scores and performance writing, AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PERFORMANCE contains analytic depictions of shared time experienced during performance; notes on dramaturgy and applause; thinking towards performance as a mode of inter-generational healing ("borderwork"). This hybrid collection offers an interceptive approach to performance as a place both unknown and emergent, the rough sketch that's always incomplete, carried over to the next performance, and always in the company of radical others of many kinds. Both writers also change during the course of performance, a mode of autobiography that most closely resembles mutation. A dramaturg is also an artist, a dancer, the poet of the work. A poet stands up from the table where they are seated to enter the domain of gesture and movement.