Sarah Bay-Cheng

Bio

Sarah Bay-Cheng is the Dean of the School of the Arts, Media, Performance and Design at York University in Toronto, Canada. She previously served as Chair and Professor of Theater and Dance at Bowdoin College, teaching theater history and theory, dramatic literature, and digital media performance.  Her research focuses on the intersections between performance and media including histories of cinema and computer technology in theatre. Her books include Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field (2015), Mapping Intermediality in Performance (2010), and a current book project, Digital Historiography and Performance. In 2015, she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Bay-Cheng can be heard monthly as a co-host for the podcast, On TAP (www.ontappod.com). 

Contributions

Modernist Afterlives In Performance—The Afterlife of Modernist Acting

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It was her mouth, and not yet she, that cried. It was that shadow cried behind her mouth; —William Butler Yeats, At Hawk’s Well (1916) [1] There is a striking moment about two-thirds of the way through Jordan Peele’s satirical horror film Get Out (2016). [2] While visiting his white girlfriend’s family estate for the weekend, the film’s black protagonist Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) is approached by one of the family’s African-American servants, Georgina (Betty Gabriel). At this point in...

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