Here you will find the video components of the publication Embodied Performance: Mutuality, Embrace, and the Letter to Rome
by Sarah Agnew
Pickwick Publications, 2020

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First, 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.

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Chapter Five: Performance Interpretation of Romans

Blackwood Uniting Church, Adelaide, 17 April 2016

Please watch track 0, 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 Mutuality theme (Rom 1:12; 14:19; 12:5; 12:10; 13:9)

07 Interlocutor (Rom 3:1–4a)

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 Doxologies (Rom 6:22; 15:5–6)

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