Entanglements of Two: A Series of Duets
Edited by Karen Christopher & Mary Paterson
Published by Intellect Books, October 2021
Drawing out the particularities of working in twos, with a focus on collaborative performance making, this book considers the duet as a particular configuration in which to think, the duo a microcosm of humankind, and presents everyday entanglement of form and practice seen through the lens of the smallest multiple unit. 

Folding and Unfolding: A Close Listening to Chloé Déchery’s A Duet Without You
by Karen Christopher
in Performing Collaboration in Solo Performance: A Duet Without You and Practice as Research, edited by Chloé Déchery (Intellect Books, 2023).

Twists, turns and a loose web of contradictory truths
by Karen Christopher
in the journal Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Routledge, Volume 11, 2020 – Issue 4, pages 520-1).

Resonance of Two
by Karen Christopher
in The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy, edited By Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca and Alice Lagaay (Routledge, 2020).

The Path on the Floor and Other Uses of Hand-drawing
by Karen Christopher
in The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice, edited by Katja Hilevaara and Emily Orley (Routledge, 2018). There is a Companion Site to the book, which includes additional text and images from Karen here.

it comes back together and Precipitation
by Karen Christopher
in Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage, edited by Daniel Sack (Routledge, 2017).

On Creating a Climate of Attention: the composition of our work
by Karen Christopher & Sophie Grodin
in Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do?, a special performance issue of the journal Green Letters: studies in ecocriticism (Volume 20 issue 3, 2016) guest edited by Deidre Heddon and Carl Lavery.

Signs of Specific Humans: the DIY imprint of collaborative performance theatre
by Karen Christopher
in DIY too, edited by R. Daniels (University of Chichester, 2015).

Untitled writing
by Karen Christopher
in DIY, edited by R. Daniels (University of Chichester, 2014).

Karen’s writing can also be found on Goat Island Performance Group’s website, and in Goat Island publications available through Unbound (London). 

Karen is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, Routledge.