ABSTRACT
A performance takes ‘place’. Dancers and actors fill a specific space for a certain time. The audience must be in that place, or in some virtual representation of it, to experience the performance. An exile leaves ‘place’. She or he moves physically from one place-home-to another place-exile. The performer in exile takes the performance as an idea with all its implications from home to exile-the strange and alien place, where those in the exile’s new home see what they might not have seen. A performing tradition passes from one place to another and-sometimes-back again, criss-crossing the cultures and transmuting its valencies.
