ABSTRACT
Globalization’s throughline is to integrate all systems – information, economic, military, ideological, social, political, and cultural. Both globalization and intercultural performances have antecedents: globalization in colonialism and imperialism, intercultural performances as outcomes of contacts among the world’s peoples. Theatre anthropology is the study of the behavior of the human being when it uses its physical and mental presence in an organized performance situation and according to principles which are different from those used in daily life. The enormous social, technological, economic and geopolitical transformations have globalized much of performance projecting it into the realm of the intercultural. A more positive response to globalization is the growth of alternative, community-based, identity-based, performances designed to do something, to accomplish specific programs or build community values: various kinds of applied performances. Performance artist Suzanne Lacy is one among many artists who have for decades addressed large social issues by devising site-specific performances with local people.
