Department of English Publications
Document Type
Review
Publication Date
6-24-2014
Volume
19
Issue
2
Journal
Performance Research
First Page
135
Last Page
137
URL with Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2014.928529
Abstract
This past spring I wrote a post for my teaching blog about learning to live with failure – to experience what it means to mess up, or to be messed up, without needing desperately to get outside of that feeling, to move quickly on and away from the terror of what seems in the moment like a shattering personal disaster.1 This is a skill that artists and students especially need: getting back on the proverbial horse after corpsing on stage, or after failing that crucial term paper, can be utterly gut-wrenching, madness-inducing stuff. Then, literally a few days after publishing that post, I received an extraordinary object lesson in what living with failure, with personal disaster, and moving slowly and publicly (and spectacularly, and hilariously) through that experience can look like.
Publication Status
1
Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Performance Research on 24/06/2014, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2014.928529