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Transformation is all about re-creation; when a thing disappears and bursts into something else. The transformation from a work of art into an event, according to Erika Fischer-Lichte, has become a fundamental aspect of the performative turn since the 1960s along with the bodily co-presence of actors and audiences in a performance space, which is the core element of Fischer-Lichte’s concept of performativity. Such interactivity between equal subjects is fundamental to the emergence of performance as an ephemeral yet contingent event. As a follow up of the debates raised in our previous international encounters – particularly “Interweaving Performance Cultures between the two Mediterranean shores” (2009), “Site-Specific Performance in Arabo-Islamic Contexts” (2010), “Intermediality and Theatre” (2011), Performing Transformations (2012) will interrogate the multifold transformative powers of performance with a particular focus on the post avant-garde theatres that seem to break all the rules of drama. Our primary objective is to further explore two extremely influential yet different theoretical perspectives on the continental performative turn of the 1960s up until the late 1990s. Our second objective is to investigate the performative aspects of transformations as manifested in protests for democracy sweeping across the Arab world today. Is it not time to investigate the paradigm shift in contemporary Arabic theatres? The tendency to privilege the turbulent reflection of liminal experience, where we are invited to become co-artists rather than passive consumers becomes so apparent in the theatre of Bousselham Daif and Youssef Rayhani from Morocco, Lina Saneh and Rabie Mroue from Lebanon… (To state just a few from a long list that is growing every day). While the legitimating of postcolonial performance cultures in relation to the European canon has been a major concern for the international theatre research community in the last decades, Arabo-Islamic artists and scholars are faced with a different task, namely that of negotiating the passage of modernity, and yet postmodernity, with a particular attention to the complexities of the current postcolonial situation. The conference also seeks new discourses to explore the complex interrelationship within and across the boundaries of contemporary Arabo-Islamic theatre forms, and assumes the quality of personal quests and participation in the public contemplation of Arabo-Islamic changing identities. It is a call for more critical attention to an observable theatre movement in the making that has become so visible also in Arabo-Islamic contexts. On the light of these theoretical debates we wish to invite scholars and artists from around the world to join the debate and offer elements of reflection on various problematics related to the following proposed panels: Reflections on Erika Fischer-Lichte’s Transformative Power of Performance Reflections on the Postdramic Spectrum and Beyond Arab Spring and Paradigm Shift in Arab Theatre(s) Protests as public spectacles of community power, solidarity and resistance to social control