Abstract
Squinting in the dark at the viewfinder of Elena Knox’s digital camera, I capture an image of her moving body centre screen, and then gently rest the camera on my knees. While I ensure that my body remains static for the duration of her performance so as to keep a visual and sound “record” of her live performance, my eyes shift upward so that I too can view the event. Seated in the front row of Women and Theatre’s performance space at New York University, I share the heat of the stage lights with Knox, and we are both perspiring. I am trying to keep still, prioritising recording the live event over the affect of my body’s response to the performance. Surrounded by a largely American audience composed of academics, performers and theatre-makers, Knox temporarily shifts me elsewhere with her vernacular; how strange it is to hear a female Australian voice delivering smooth, fast rhyme to rap music in New York City.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 117-129 |
Number of pages | 13 |
Journal | Southerly |
Volume | 64 |
Issue number | 3 |
Publication status | Published - 2004 |
Keywords
- poetics
- hip-hop
- theaters