Acknowledgements List of contributors List of images Introduction Cathy Turner, Jerri Daboo, Sharada Srinivasan, and Anindya Sinha 1 The spaces of everyday performance Narendar Pani Photo essay 1: Maha Shivaratri, 2018: a journey through Bengaluru Cathy Turner and Anne Fenk with photography by Siddarth Sumitran Part one: heritage Introduction: heritage Cathy Turner, Jerri Daboo, Sharada Srinivasan, and Anindya Sinha 2 Crossing thresholds: transgressing space, identity and performance in the Urur-Olcott Kuppam Vizha in Chennai Jerri Daboo 3 Performing craft, crafting performance: from the tangible to intangible in craft and performance heritage Sharada Srinivasan 4 Staging the temple as a living experience of a distant past Smriti Haricharan Photo essay 2: Heritage performances at Tripunithura Cathy Turner Part two: everyday life Introduction: everyday life Cathy Turner, Jerri Daboo, Sharada Srinivasan, and Anindya Sinha 5 The production of locality at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2016) Cathy Turner 6 Spectacle and subversion at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (2018) Cathy Turner 7 Performing the digital city: flash mob performance and social exclusion in Bengaluru's 'new' India Rebecca Savory Fuller Photo essay 3: fermented frontier: between north and south Lawai BemBem Part three: environment Introduction: environment Cathy Turner, Jerri Daboo, Sharada Srinivasan, and Anindya Sinha 8 Musings from the Vrishchikotsavam of Tripunithura: the uncertain future of the performing temple elephants of Kerala Sreedhar Vijayakrishnan and Anindya Sinha 9 Primate performances in a contact zone: interspecies communication and benefaction in a synurbising forest of Southern India Sarada Natarajan and Anindya Sinha 10 Performing the Poromboke at the Urur-Olcott Kuppam Vizha, Chennai Sharada Srinivasan and Cathy Turner Photo essay 4: on the threshold of Urur Kuppam Cathy Turner Index.