Introduction: Actions of Transfer

Our co-authored article provides an introduction to the UCLA-based conference Actions of Transfer: Womenʹs Performance in the Americas (2008), a sister event to the opening of the new cultural and performance space with FOMMA - Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya (Fortress of the Mayan Woman) -supported by the Hemispheric Institute and the Ford Foundation. Introducing the articles and contributions to the performance dossier arising out of the event and brought together for this special issue, we reflect critically on our conference set-up. Detailing our multi-sited project as a dialogic, hemispheric practice, we offer our reflections with the hope that this will lead to new possibilities and paradigms for international performance research and practice