Torsten Jost is a researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence "Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" at Freie Universität Berlin.

Erika Fischer-Lichte is Director of the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at Freie Universität Berlin.

Milos Kosic studied creative writing at the City College of New York and English Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

Astrid Schenka is a performing arts scholar, dramaturge and translator. She currently works as a research associate at the International Research Center "Interweaving Performance Cultures" at Freie Universität Berlin as well as a guest lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts.

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

Contributor Bios

Introduction: Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures - (Re)Generating Knowledges through Interweaving Performance Cultures

Torsten Jost

PART I - (Re)Generating Cultural and Social Knowledges

1. Building Relations, Engendering Knowledge: Te R¿hia Theatre's SolOthello in Toronto

Ric Knowles

2. Contesting the Pov¿¿¿ as an Epistemological Mode: History, Form and Performance

Kedar Arun Kulkarni

3. Kä¿aikk¿ttuas Practice-Based Knowledge

Hanne M. de Bruin

PART II - (Re)Generating Aesthetic Knowledges

4. Aesthetic Knowledge and Aesthetic Experience

Erika Fischer-Lichte

5. What Knowledges Do Dance Viewers Generate?

Susan Leigh Foster

6. Learning "to be Affected": Attaining "Relational Knowledge" through Interweaving in Acting

Phillip Zarrilli

PART III - (Re)Generating Spiritual Knowledges

7. On Being and Unknowing: Moving with an "Other" in Capoeira, Contact Improvisation and Queer Tango

Ann Cooper Albright

8. Approaching Practices of Acting through Concepts of Daoist Philosophy

Lynette Hunter

9. Teatr ZAR's Song Theater as Spiritual Knowledge

Maria Shevtsova

10. Coda: Meditation on Not-Knowing

Christel Weiler

Index