From the grand spectacle of fire to the radiant incandescence of an actor\u2019s energy, from the choreography of fireworks to the wild torchlight processions and rituals of burning effigies, from the conflagration of theatres (recurrent throughout history) to the \u2018victim burnt at the stake, signalling through the flames\u2019. This issue wishes to explore the elemental, creative and destructive force of fire (its assignations and allegiances, dalliances and collusion) with performance \u2013 at once transformative, celebratory, purifying, cathartic, and catastrophic.<\/p>\n
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Editorial
\nRichard Gough
\npp. 1 – 8
\nBurning Bodies: Transformation and fire
\nRichard Gough
\npp. 9 – 23
\nThat Which Burns : A meditation on fire, allegory and competitive telekinesis
\nTed Hiebert
\npp. 24 – 31
\nIn Praise of Fire
\nEugenio Barba
\npp. 32 – 35
\nThe Arabian Phoenix Goes to the Theatre
\nNicola Savarese
\npp. 36 – 55
\n\u2018Belle Horreur\u2019 : Hubert Robert\u2019s scenic space and the Paris Op\u00e9ra fire of 1781
\nPannill Camp
\npp. 56 – 63
\nKate Claxton, Fire Jinx : The aftermath of the Brooklyn Theatre fire
\nJ. K. Curry
\npp. 64 – 69
\nThirteen fragments of life and death : Gandhian economics and a hoop of fire
\nAbhay Ghiara
\npp. 70 – 76
\nBadiou\u2019s Spectator-Subject and Fireworks Politics
\nFred Dalmasso
\npp. 77 – 83
\nHorse-breaking and Walking on Fire a Performance Document
\nDaviel Shy
\npp. 84 – 85
\nPlaying with (The Erotics of) Fire in Circus Performance : The Circus of Horrors
\nZoe Barltrop
\npp. 86 – 94
\n\u2018The Anarchy of the Theatrical Moment\u2019 : A profile of The Pyromantiker
\nBronwyn Tweddle
\npp. 95 – 103
\nCinders
\nRudy Lemcke
\npp. 104 – 104
\nProving Grounds : Live fire, starfish and incendiaries
\nGreer Crawley
\npp. 105 – 112
\nPhoenix Rising : The culture of fire at the Burning Man Festival
\nRachel Bowditch
\npp. 113 – 122
\nFlying Sparks
\nChristel Weiler
\npp. 123 – 126
\nVisual Impulse : Contemplating voices on fire
\nZekiye Sarikartal, Nil\u00fcfer Oval\u0131o\u011flu
\npp. 127 – 135
\nFire and the development from unmanifest to manifest creation
\nDaniel Meyer-Dinkgr\u00e4fe
\npp. 136 – 138
\nOutsider Theatre : A journey through Back to Back\u2019s Hell House
\nTheron Schmidt
\npp. 139 – 148
\nVolatile Materials in Image Making : The appeal of fire and explosives in the 20th and 21st century, using the work of Stephen Cripps as a point of articulation
\npp. 149 – 157
\nReview: \u2018Playing Indian\u2019: Art, aboriginality, and the politics of identification
\nClaudette Lauzon
\npp. 158 – 161
\nReview: Seeing Differently: A history and theory of identification and the visual arts
\nSarah Gorman
\npp. 162 – 164
\nNotes on Contributors
\npp. 165 – 166<\/p>\n\n\n