Tony Perucci
Ph.D. '04
Tony Perucci is Associate Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his scholarly and artistic work examines interventionist performance, postmodern dance, experimental theatre and performance art. His current research focuses on The Six Viewpoints Theory & Practice, and its originator, Mary Overlie. His writing on The Six Viewpoints has appeared as book chapters, in TDR, Performance Research, Movement Research Journal, as well as his forthcoming book, On the Horizontal: Mary Overlie and The Six Viewpoints. He is the author of Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex (Michigan 2012), and numerous articles on the politics of artistic interventions that irritate public perceptions of "real" and "fake." He is a co-director of the Mary Overlie Legacy Project, and is currently preparing a second edition of Overlie's book, Standing in Space: The Six Viewpoints Theory and Practice.
Current Occupation
Associate Professor of Performance Studies, Department of Communication, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill