Introduction: performance, identity, and the neo-political subject / Matthew Causey and Fintan Walsh -- Positioning the neo-political subject. Bloody thought / Herb Blau -- ID/entity: the subject's own taking place / Matthew Causey and Gabriella Calchi Novati -- A/semiotic directions. The theatre of thought / Patricia MacCormack -- Performance, the field body, and zombies in societies of entrainment / David Fancy -- The fugitive theater of Romeo Castellucci: intermedial refractions and fractalactic occurrences / Bryan Reynolds and Adam Bryx -- The post-subjective body, or Deleuze and Guattari meet Romeo Castellucci / Audron Ukauskait -- Collaborative practice, collective action. A diluted manifesto / Lin Hixson, Matthew Goulish, and Laura Cull -- Being Janez Jana / Maaike Bleeker -- The bone's pirouette: dance, identity and energy / Petra Kuppers -- Dance and the event: John Jasperse's Giant empty and The disclosure of being as time / Nigel Stewart -- Performing along and outside the borders of identity. Temporary legitimacy: queer possibilities in digital performance / Stephen Greer -- Affective presents/effective presence: intensity, futurity, and the theatrical politics of the child / Joshua Abrahams.