“Performance Privileges threshold-crossing, shape-shifting, and boundary-violating figures, such as shamans, tricksters, and jokers, who value the carnivalesque over the canonical, the transformative over the normative, the mobile over the monumental.”
-Dwight Conquergood in “Of Caravans and Carnivals: Performance Studies in Motion”
“Theory is enlivened and most rigorously tested when it hits the ground in practice.”
-Dwight Conquergood in “Of Caravans and Carnivals: Performance Studies in Motion”