About the Journal

We champion open access (CC-BY-NC) because performance belongs to the public. Authors retain copyright while allowing artists and scholars worldwide to engage with, critique, and build upon their work.

Scope & Focus

• Performance Praxis: Rehearsal room revelations, directorial manifestos, and actor training methodologies that actually work

• Body Politics: Choreographing resistance, disability aesthetics, and decolonizing movement vocabularies

• Radical Scenography: Climate-conscious design, augmented reality stages, and architectures of audience participation

• Performance Histories: Recovering erased traditions, queer archival practices, and the living memory of ephemeral acts

• Theories in Action: Applying critical frameworks to street protests, TikTok performances, and other "stages" beyond prosceniums

Why This Journal?

• "Performance Recipes" Section: Step-by-step documentation of boundary-pushing techniques.

• Artist-Scholar Hybridity: We publish traditional research alongside performative essays and multimedia documentation

• Global Performance Underground: Spotlight on non-institutional, non-Western, and subversive performance cultures

• No Star System: Critiques of canonical works are as welcome as analyses of community theater revolutions

Peer Review That Understands Performance

• Double-blind review with practitioners and scholars

• Negative Space Welcome: Failed experiments often teach more than successes

• Multimedia Submissions Encouraged: Performance needs to be seen, not just described