Nick Salvato

Nick Salvato is Professor and Chair of the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. He is the author of Uncloseting Drama: American Modernism and Queer Performance (Yale, 2010), Knots Landing (Wayne State, TV Milestones Series, 2015), and Obstruction (Duke, 2016). His essays have appeared in a number of venues, including Critical Inquiry, Criticism, Discourse, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Modern Drama, TDR, Theatre Journal, and Theatre Studies.

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Rock Performance : Gloss

In rock performance, there is motility. There is theatre. Whether there is agency or action is a question for the ages and their ghosts.

Rock Performance

Gradually, the audience realizes that the rocks are this canyon's performers. It is the slowest performance to which this audience has ever borne witness.