Natalie Alvarez
Biographic Data
| ID | 129046 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalie Alvarez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalie |
| FAMILY NAME | Alvarez |
| SIGNATURE | ALVAREZ N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-6904-959X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
LeAnn Fields and University of Michigan Press
In 1987, LeAnn Fields acquired Lynda Hart‘s Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women’s Theatre. By the time Fields retired in 2024, she had built a list of more than 280 books in the field of theatre and performance studies at the University of Michigan Press. Hart’s Making a Spectacle is a foundational and still radical book of critical essays on gender, the body, and spectatorship, topics that continue to chart and reverberate …
Methods Dialogue
This conversation between Patrick Anderson and Natalie Alvarez focuses on how to do collaborative research, bridge incommensurable differences through understanding, and enjoin researchers’ subjectivity with those with whom they are in conversation. Featured situations for ethical consideration include community–police liaisons and consulting on police training. Considering the tensions between the professional prerogatives of the researcher and …
Artistic research
This volume has emerged from discussions about the status of arts practice and its legitimacy as research. Art-making as a means of research enquiry remains ambiguous and ephemeral, but increasingly acknowledged as an important way to model our knowledge and experience of the world. In the past two decades there have been great strides in its identification within the academy, with phrases like ‘practice-based’, ‘practice-led’ research or ‘artist…
The place of writing in practice-based Ph.D. programmes
The relationship between the written and artistic work in practice-based Ph.D. dissertations is often ambiguous, leaving the student to languish as they navigate ill-defined expectations tied to a daunting ideal of ‘scholarly writing’ they feel pressured to meet, uncertain about its purpose in relation to their artistic practice. This ambiguity about the place of writing in practice-based Ph.D. programmes has been at the forefront of debates in t…
Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times
Living the interdiscipline
Ryerson University theatre professor Natalie Alvarez is currently helming a large, interdisciplinary team in southern Ontario that is testing the power of Forum Theatre to build better, more responsive scenarios for police officer training in de-escalation and mental crisis response. In this interview, Alvarez sits down with issue editor Kim Solga to talk about where this project came from, what challenges arise when working in an intensively int…
Immersions in Cultural Difference
Foul Play
“Diving” or “simulation,” according to FIFA’s Laws of the Game, is an attempt to deceive referees by feigning injury or pretending to have sustained a foul. When examined as a performance strategy, simulation in football reveals a tacit reliance on the aesthetic criteria of realist acting and incites an antitheatrical discourse that services xenophobic anxieties in the new Europe
A Constellation of Imagined Theatres
In ten one-page hypothetical scores, playlets, and closet dramas, a collection of theorists and artists of the contemporary stage present “imagined theatres” interrogating what is possible and impossible at the intersections of performance and technology. A one-page gloss faces each imagined theatre, expanding on its promise in critical, historical, or personal terms. The dialogues among these texts explore how performances theorize, and how theo…
A Manifesto for Manifestos
An interactive manifesto (in the form of an origami bird) questioning the cultural sector's dangerous flirtation with the exchange economy, its notions of "the creative class", and releasing cultural discourse from the shackles of mercantile economic models and into a currency of the soul.
The Tour Guide
Performance as Pathology
Munchausen's syndrome is the term applied to patients who chronically perform or feign illness with seemingly no ulterior motive. In the absence of an apparent motive, the diagnosis of Munchausen's effectively pathologizes performance-a pathologization arising in response to virtuosic performances of illness that often succeed, for a time, in duping doctors. This essay examines Munchausen's as a performative illness wherein the simulated symptom …
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Performance as Pathology
Munchausen's syndrome is the term applied to patients who chronically perform or feign illness with seemingly no ulterior motive. In the absence of an apparent motive, the diagnosis of Munchausen's effectively pathologizes performance-a pathologization arising in response to virtuosic performances of illness that often succeed, for a time, in duping doctors. This essay examines Munchausen's as a performative illness wherein the simulated symptom …
A Manifesto for Manifestos
An interactive manifesto (in the form of an origami bird) questioning the cultural sector's dangerous flirtation with the exchange economy, its notions of "the creative class", and releasing cultural discourse from the shackles of mercantile economic models and into a currency of the soul.
The Tour Guide
Foul Play
“Diving” or “simulation,” according to FIFA’s Laws of the Game, is an attempt to deceive referees by feigning injury or pretending to have sustained a foul. When examined as a performance strategy, simulation in football reveals a tacit reliance on the aesthetic criteria of realist acting and incites an antitheatrical discourse that services xenophobic anxieties in the new Europe
A Constellation of Imagined Theatres
In ten one-page hypothetical scores, playlets, and closet dramas, a collection of theorists and artists of the contemporary stage present “imagined theatres” interrogating what is possible and impossible at the intersections of performance and technology. A one-page gloss faces each imagined theatre, expanding on its promise in critical, historical, or personal terms. The dialogues among these texts explore how performances theorize, and how theo…
Immersions in Cultural Difference
Sustainable Tools for Precarious Times
Living the interdiscipline
Ryerson University theatre professor Natalie Alvarez is currently helming a large, interdisciplinary team in southern Ontario that is testing the power of Forum Theatre to build better, more responsive scenarios for police officer training in de-escalation and mental crisis response. In this interview, Alvarez sits down with issue editor Kim Solga to talk about where this project came from, what challenges arise when working in an intensively int…
Artistic research
This volume has emerged from discussions about the status of arts practice and its legitimacy as research. Art-making as a means of research enquiry remains ambiguous and ephemeral, but increasingly acknowledged as an important way to model our knowledge and experience of the world. In the past two decades there have been great strides in its identification within the academy, with phrases like ‘practice-based’, ‘practice-led’ research or ‘artist…
The place of writing in practice-based Ph.D. programmes
The relationship between the written and artistic work in practice-based Ph.D. dissertations is often ambiguous, leaving the student to languish as they navigate ill-defined expectations tied to a daunting ideal of ‘scholarly writing’ they feel pressured to meet, uncertain about its purpose in relation to their artistic practice. This ambiguity about the place of writing in practice-based Ph.D. programmes has been at the forefront of debates in t…
Methods Dialogue
This conversation between Patrick Anderson and Natalie Alvarez focuses on how to do collaborative research, bridge incommensurable differences through understanding, and enjoin researchers’ subjectivity with those with whom they are in conversation. Featured situations for ethical consideration include community–police liaisons and consulting on police training. Considering the tensions between the professional prerogatives of the researcher and …
LeAnn Fields and University of Michigan Press
In 1987, LeAnn Fields acquired Lynda Hart‘s Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women’s Theatre. By the time Fields retired in 2024, she had built a list of more than 280 books in the field of theatre and performance studies at the University of Michigan Press. Hart’s Making a Spectacle is a foundational and still radical book of critical essays on gender, the body, and spectatorship, topics that continue to chart and reverberate …
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