Solo/Black/Woman: Performing Global Traditions and Local Interventions 

One of the three proposed inaugural projects for the Performance Encounters Series at Northwestern University Press, Solo/Black/Woman: Performing Global Traditions and Local Intervention is a collaborative effort between performance scholars and performing artists to document and analyze the growing body of solo performance focused on the experiences of black women in the United States. Understanding that solo performance art is often written and performed by the very artist on stage, this documentation project integrates multi-media resources to best approximate the embodied presence and performance strategies (visual, gestural and rhetorical) of the artists involved. The result will be a hybrid publication that will include a printed volume of performance scripts, interviews and essays and a DVD or web-based publishing platform that will include performance documentation, video clips from interviews and round-tables with the artists, and other archival media such as promotional flyers, performance programs and artist production notes that document the process of developing and staging solo/black/woman performance today.