Dancing in the rain

Worldmaking is a genre-bending ethnographic/theoretical analysis of labor and race-making in the US theater industry, grounded Kondo’s full participation as anthropologist, performance studies scholar, dramaturg playwright. The narrative trajectory toward what Kondo calls “reparative creativity,” inspired by Kleinian theory its appropriations queer color critique, grounds her work artists Anna Deavere Smith, David Henry Hwang, own full-length play. She disrupts theory/ practice binary spotlighting creative race-making, destabilizes personal/structural divide through concepts “racial affect” “affective violence.” Theater arts are more than second-order representation; they zones public existence. locates shared themes destruction/creation, genre-bending, embodiment/ affect/ movement she “dances rain” with interlocutors Joshua Chambers-Letson Aimee Cox.