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Chapter Five of the book, which is the Performance Interpretation of the Letter to the Romans.

Following that, excerpts from the performance and additional clips to accompany the discussion in Chapter Six, the Critical Reflection. Together, Performance Interpretation and Critical Reflection comprise an Embodied Performance Analysis, the new methodology that Embodied Performance introduces.

Finally – the conversation continues. Links to articles engaging with Embodied Performance and/or applying Embodied Performance Analysis; book reviews of Embodied Performance. 

Chapter Five:
Performance Interpretation of Romans

Blackwood Uniting Church, Adelaide, 17 April 2016

Please watch track 00, for the Performance Interpretation.

Please note that the most complete experience of an embodied interpretation is to watch the performance without referring to script or Bible, in the first instance.

00 Chapter 5 Performance Interpretation of Romans

Chapter Six:
Critical Reflection of the Performed Interpretation

Discussion Examples

01 Rom 1:26–27

02 Rom 1:20-27

03 Rom 1:20–32 digital performance

04 Rom 1:7

05 Rom 1:12

06 Rom 1:12; 14:19; 12:5; 12:10; 13:9 Mutuality theme

07  Rom 3:1–4a Interlocutor

08 Rom 6:23–7:15

09 Rom 7:24

10 Rom 7:22–23

11 Rom 12:20–13:1

12 Rom 8:38–11:36

13 Rom 14:1–3, 5–6

14 Rom 3:29

15 Rom 6:22; 15:5–6 Doxologies

16 Rom 16:1–2 Uniting College preview performance

17 Rom 16:1–2

18 Rom 16:3–16

19 Rom 16:17–20

20 Bookends (Rom 1:7 and 16:16)

21 Rom 16:20–21

22 Rom 16:20b–23

23 Rom 16:25–27

24 Phoebe’s story and Rom 12–15—Uniting College preview

The conversation continues
Scholars engaging with Embodied Performance Analysis

U-Wen Low. ‘Who tells the story? Challenging audiences through performer embodiment.’ Religions 14, no. 8: 1040. 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14081040

Reviews of Embodied Performance. 

PCNet SA (2023)

Art/s and Theology in Australia (2020) (and discussion in comments)

Progressive Voices (2021) PV37 – p. 20.