Our Favorite Annual Document of Performance Practice Is Here: Emergency INDEX Volume 3!

Time to order your performance bible! Emergency INDEX: An Annual Document of Performance Practice, Vol. 3, is out! And if you order before December 15, this gift of life is available for $10 off the cover price (go to the site for the discount code). Once again, Ugly Duckling Presse has published an impressive compendium of performance--open to all practitioners "regardless of their country of origin, genre, aims, or popularity"--that uniquely features "a comprehensive index of key terms used by contributors in describing and discussing their own work." Co-editor (with the awesome Sophia Cleary) Yelena Gluzman says it best: "Emergency Index Vol. 3 is the BEST stocking stuffer for ppl who want to rip the gags out of their mouths." Well who doesn't?

Contributors include:

Sacha Yanow . SALYER + SCHAAG . Samuel Jablon . Samuel Penaso . Sandra Bonomini . Sandrine Schaefer . Sara Holwerda . Sara Schnadt . Sara Zalek . Sarah Shipman . Sarah-Jane Norman . Savage Amusement (Melanie Jame Wolf) . Sayaka Akitsu . Scott Carter . Selena . Shawn Chua . Sheryl Oring . Sindy Butz . Sophia Le Fraga . Sophia Le Fraga & Rachel Valinsky . Sophie Seita . Stacy Grossfield Dance Projects . Sue Murad . Suli Holum & David Bradley . Sylva Dean And Me . Sylvia Schwenk & Anne Zahalka

That's just S! Check out the rest of the hundreds at the Emergency Index website. Submissions for next year's volume are also now open. You have until January 5 to write a brief description of any performance you've made in 2014--whether you're a poet, scientist, theater artist, activist, dancer, choreographer, playwright, performer, and so on and so on.