List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Taking it to the Streets: Performing Science in Public, Meredith Conti (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA) and Vivian Appler (College of Charleston, USA) Part I: Building Community and Imagining Worlds through the Science Performance Performance Artists Roundtable, Petra Kuppers (University of Michigan, USA / Artistic Director of The Olimpias), Stephanie Heit (The Olimpias, USA) Lanxing Fu (Co-Director, Superhero Clubhouse, USA), and Jeremy Pickard (Co-Director, Superhero Clubhouse, USA) 1. SF For Many Modernities: Hybridity in the Worlds of Margaret Cavendish and Donna Haraway, Vivian Appler (College of Charleston, USA) 2. Cultivating Ensembles: A Relational Reflection on Creating Cultural Transformation with New Performances of Science, Raquell M. Holmes (Founder, Improvscience /Arizona State University, USA) 3. Shadow Ecologies: Shadow Puppets as Science Performance, Alison Dell (St. Francis College, USA / Co-Founder, Art in the Lab), Stephanie Dowdy-Nava (Co-Founder, ART±BIO Collaborative / Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA), Armando de la Torre (Independent Artist / former ART±BIO Cultivo), and Saúl S. Nava (Co-Founder, ART±BIO Collaborative / Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA) Creative Interlude: "Absence," "Richard Has Gone Fishing" and "Bioengineered Life Lungs", Kate Gillespie (SUNY Cobleskill, USA) Part 2: Performing Science in the Public Laboratory 4. A Lecture on Heads and Lectures with Skulls – Performance Transmutations, Marlis Schweitzer (York University, Canada) 5. Performing Paleontology at the Natural History Museum, Shelby Brewster (Michigan State University, USA) 6. Ether, Sawdust, Sweat, and Blood: Towards a Dramaturgy of Smells in Victorian Operating Theatres, Meredith Conti (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA) Creative Interlude: Morehu & Titi, David Geary (Capilano University, Canada) Part 3: Experimentation, Exhibition, and Ethics 7. Anatomical Acts: Minstrelsy and Nineteenth-Century Performances of Popular Anatomy, Mia Levenson (Tufts University, USA) 8. Staging Science and Humanity in Manjula Padmanabhan’s Harvest, Radhica Ganapathy (West Virginia University, USA) 9. Do Goats Have a Right to Cigarettes? A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of the Ethics of Non-Human Animal Performances, Jennifer A. Kokai (Weber State University, USA) and Lauren Kokai (University of Pittsburgh, USA) Science Communicators Roundtable, Raven Baxter ('Raven the Science Maven', Founder, STEMbassy, USA), Katherine Inderbitzen (Nautilus Live: Ocean Exploration Trust), and Sahana Srinivasan (Host of Netflix’s STEAM children’s series Brainchild / actor, comedian, and filmmaker) Selected Bibliography Index

Examines explicitly public-facing science performances that operate within and for specialist and non-specialist populations. It includes scholarly essays, interviews with scientists and artists, and creative entries.

Exploring the interactions between science and performance, the series provides readers with a unique guide to current practices and research in this fast-expanding field. Through shared themes and case studies, the series offers rigorous vocabularies and methods for empirical studies of performance, with each volume being a collaboration between performance scholars, practitioners and scientists. The series encompasses the multi modalities of performance to include drama, dance and music.