Introduction

Elin Diamond, Denise Varney and Candice Amich do similar work in taking a global approach to scholarship on performance and affect, though the people more directly address the need for inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to performance and other arts-driven work and research-creation. It redefines and extends the work that affect theory can do in methodological ways. This chapter focuses the authors' attention on performance events or intra-actions as the expressive and affective engagement of bodies both human and more-than-human in relationship and, at times, in conflict. The essays in this chapter problematise human experiences in the context of the non-human world that surrounds and intersects with them. From activist performances to anti-oppressive education, the chapter leverages affect theory in order to find the performative in everyday movements, charting the relationship between bodies and affect, and the ways in which bodies produce affects, and affects produce bodies.