The aim of this issue is to rethink the expressive and perceptive potential of the foot in contemporary performance. Contributors will reflect on a variety of footbased practices and processes as both dramaturgy – in theatre, dance, performance and film – and in everyday life activities such as running and walking. They will also contemplate the metaphorical significance of the foot in phrases such as footwork, footnotes, footage and in the technical vocabulary associated with the foot as a mode of rhythmic measurement in music and poetry. The issue hopes to draw attention to the foot\u2019s aesthetic and political capacities for perceiving and (re)arranging the world.<\/p>\n
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Editorial Pas De Deux
\nCarl Lavery, Nicolas Whybrow
\npp. 1 – 11
\nGetting Things off the Ground: Pedestrian Feelings
\nMartin Welton
\npp. 12 – 17
\n[Artist’s Pages] the Distance Between Us
\nAlexander Kelly
\npp. 18 – 21
\nThinking Limping: Richard Maxwell’s Neutral Hero and the Tragic Impediment of Contemporary Theatre
\nAdrian Kear
\npp. 22 – 29
\nWe Always Arrive in the Theatre on Foot: a Walk to the Theatre in Sixteen Steps and Eighteen Footnotes
\nEsther Pilkington, Martin Nachbar
\npp. 30 – 35
\nFoot, Mouth and Ear: Some Thoughts on Prosody and Performance
\nJohn Hall
\npp. 36 – 41
\nOn Foot Commonplace Book [artists, pages]
\nMatthew Goulish, Lin Hixson
\npp. 42 – 45
\nBefore the Law of Human Motor Functions: Walter Benjamin’s Poetics of the Step
\nJason Groves
\npp. 46 – 53
\nAcconci’s Pied-\u00e0-Terre: Taking the Archive for a Walk
\nKiff Bamford
\npp. 54 – 61
\n\u2018Before I Compose a Piece, I Walk Round It Several Times, Accompanied by Myself’
\nStephen Hodge
\npp. 62 – 66
\nTurning 40: 40 Turns: Walking and Friendship
\nDeirdre (Dee) Heddon
\npp. 67 – 75
\nConversations After Dark
\nTownley & Bradby
\npp. 76 – 82
\nSurfaces and Slopes
\nHayden Lorimer
\npp. 83 – 86
\nWarplands: Alkborough
\nMike Pearson
\npp. 87 – 96
\nWalk ‘Til You Run out of Water
\nPerdita Phillips
\npp. 97 – 109
\nRunning Through a Field: Performance and Humanness
\nGregg Whelan
\npp. 110 – 120
\nMemory, Identity and a Desire to Dance
\nMargaret Ames
\npp. 121 – 127
\nFoot Washing for the Sole [artist’s pages]
\nAdrian Howells
\npp. 128 – 131
\nThe Un-Seeing Eyes of the Foot: in Memoriam Kazuo Ohno
\nJohannes Birringer
\npp. 132 – 138
\nA Mis-Guide Walks to the Shoe Museum
\nSimon Persighetti
\npp. 139 – 140
\nNotes on Contributors
\npp. 141 – 142<\/p>\n\n\n