Performed imaginaries

A foreword looking back

Acknowledgments

Can we be the (new) Third World?

The conservative avant-garde

The 1960s, TDR, and performance studies: from a 2009 interview by Ana Bigotte Vieira and Ricardo Seiça Salgado, revised in 2014 by Richard Schechner

9/11 as avant-garde art?

Performed imaginaries: the Ramlila of Ramnagar and the Maya-Lila cosmos

Self-inflicted wounds: art, ritual, popular culture

"Points of contact" revisited.