Mary Elizabeth Anderson researches the ways in which paradigms of performance training are informed by perceptions of space and experiences of place. A PhD graduate from Wayne State university in Detroit, Michigen, she is now an assistant professor of theatre there. Currently she is at work on a book examining site-specific performance in Australia, based on fieldwork conducted in the Central Desert and Tasmania.
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In/between/Place: Tess de Quincey’s bodyweather of the central desert
Mary Elizabeth Anderson gives an account of Tess de Quincey’s experiments in Bodyweather training, place-based performance-making and documentation at Hamilton Downs, an old cattle station and youth camp about 100 kilometres beyond Alice Springs.