Volume 4, Issue 2 (Winter 2021)
Decadence and Performance
Carnal Acts: Decadence in Theatre, Performance and Live Art
Adam Alston
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CRITICAL
Wasted Youth and Reunion in Death: Imperial Decline and Decadent Aesthetics in Fin-de-Siècle Ottoman Culture
Özen Nergis Dolcerocca
Women, Morality, and Materiality: Performing Transgression through Dress and Décor in Fin-de-Siècle Theatre
Barbara Bessac
Decadent Historicism on Stage: Trans History and Alexander Sacharoff’s Renaissance Dances
Frankie Dytor
Intermediality and Decadent Performance in Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste’s Die Tänze des Lasters, des Grauens und der Ekstase (1923)
Katharina Herold-Zanker
Visions of Phantasm: Madame de Sade in the Excess of Language and Imagination
Amano Ikuho
‘That Melancholy Fiend’: Charles Ludlam’s Bluebeard and the Horrific City
Stephen Cedars
BADS ESSAY PRIZE WINNERS 2021
Symbolism, Empire, and the Dance: On Sarojini Naidu’s ‘Eastern Dancers’ and Arthur Symons’s ‘Javanese Dancers’
Cherrie Kwok
‘We Must Find Out If We Are Still Alive!’: Sex Apocalypse and How to Survive it in La Messe dorée
David Melville
BADS TRANSLATION PRIZE 2021
Isabelle Eberhardt, ‘Infernalia: Sepulchral Pleasure’ (1895): A New Translation
Céline Brossillon
REVIEWS
Jake Elwes, The Zizi Show – A Deepfake Drag Cabaret, The New Real, Edinburgh Futures Institute, 2020
Owen G. Parry
Life: LIVE!, by Lucy McCormick at Fierce Festival, Birmingham (UK), Saturday 19 October 2019
Phoebe Patey-Ferguson
LETTER TO THE EDITORS
