"RoseLee Goldberg: There are a lot of differences, but I won’t really be focussing on that tonight. It’s a short talk and that’s a long story. My new book on performance since 2000 looks at some of those differences in relation to dance history and performance history as well as funding and politics. Tonight I will talk about my work of the last four decades, including writing this book Performance Now: Live Art for the 21st Century, and the importance of performance as a bridge between cultures. I think of performance as a kind of passport ­to Brazil, to Dakar, to South Africa as a way to access different cultures."