Palgrave Macmillan Performance Philosophy Series (Forthcoming, 2019)

Later Rain is a post-dramatic dance theater work that engages with issues in the philosophy of religion and socio-political philosophy. It investigates ecstatic states in Appalachian charismatic Pentecostal church services, states characterized by dancing, paroxysms, shouting, and glossolalia.

Interdisciplinary research for the work draws on studio practice, ethnographic field work, cultural history, Pentecostal theology of embodiment, Shaker aesthetics, anthropological understandings of ecstatic rituals, and acclaimed works that have presented trance and religious ecstasy onstage.

Pragmatist Philosophy of Dance advances a process-based approach to interdisciplinary performance research that utilizes John Dewey’s theory of inquiry and William James’ considerations of mystical experience.

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