"Early modern concepts of performance include embodied, non-representational aspects of drama as well as its implication in discursive systems." -Mary Crane, "What Was Performance?", p. 171
"[Exercise] gestures toward a prediscursive kinesthetic form of learning that need not necessarily bear a representational or ideological force." -p.172
"What kind of transformative experience might a play provide for an audience if it is not a conventionally moral one?" -p. 180
These quotes interest me because they suggest that embodied, kinesthetic physicality might be one way to effect transport without "insisting on sameness as a criterion of worth" (Davis, "Theatricality and Civil Society in Theatricality).
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