Sara Jane Bailes
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Education: BA Theatre and English, University of Lancaster, 1988; MA and Phd in Performance Studies (Fulbright Scholar), Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, 1998/2005.
Sara Jane Bailes (she/they) is a performance maker, writer, and educator who collaborates with artists internationally and across disciplines as dramaturg, mentor, and co-creator. She’s interested in the political and ethical modes of friendship that develop through art practice and pedagogy, and the temporary collective, social agreements that can be generated through making and teaching. Among numerous publications she’s author of Performance Theatre and the Poetics of Failure (2011) and co-editor of Beckett and Musicality (2014). She writes in long and short form, creatively, and critically, publishing widely on contemporary experimental performance, theatre, and live art practices in print, live, video, and web-based contexts.