Introduction: Taking it to the Streets: Performing Science in Public / Meredith Conti and Vivian Appler -- PART I: Building Community and Imagining Worlds through the Science Performance. Performance Artists Roundtable / Petra Kuppers, Stephanie Heit, Lanxing Fu, and Jeremy Pickard -- 1. SF For Many Modernities: Hybridity in the Worlds of Margaret Cavendish and Donna Haraway / Vivian Appler -- 2. Cultivating Ensembles: A Relational Reflection on Creating Cultural Transformation with New Performances of Science / Raquell M. Holmes -- 3. Shadow Ecologies: Shadow Puppets as Science Performance / Alison Dell, Stephanie Dowdy-Nava, Armando de la Torre, and Saúl S. Nava -- Creative Interlude: "Absence," "Richard Has Gone Fishing" and "Bioengineered Life Lungs" / Kate Gillespie -- PART II: Performing Science in the Public Laboratory. 4. A Lecture on Heads and Lectures with Skulls: Performance Transmutations / Marlis Schweitzer -- 5. Performing Paleontology at the Natural History Museum / Shelby Brewster -- 6. Ether, Sawdust, Sweat, and Blood: Towards a Dramaturgy of Smells in Victorian Operating Theatres / Meredith Conti -- Creative Interlude: Morehu & Titi / David Geary -- PART III: Experimentation, Exhibition, and Ethics. 7. Anatomical Acts: Minstrelsy and Nineteenth-Century Performances of Popular Anatomy / Mia Levenson -- 8. Staging Science and Humanity in Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest / Radhica Ganapathy -- 9. Do Goats Have a Right to Cigarettes? A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of the Ethics of Non-Human Animal Performances / Jennifer A. Kokai and Lauren Kokai -- Science Communicators Roundtable / Raven Baxter, Katherine Inderbitzen, and Sahana Srinivasan

"This is the first of two volumes dedicated to the diverse sociocultural work of science-oriented performance. A dynamic volume of scholarly essays, interviews with scientists and artists, and creative entries, it examines explicitly public-facing science performances that operate within and for specialist and non-specialist populations. The book's chapters trace the theatrical and ethical contours of live science events, re-enact historical stagings of scientific expertise, and demonstrate the pedagogical and activist potentials in performing science in community settings. Alongside the scholarly chapters, From the Lab to the Streets features creative work by contemporary science-integrative artists and interviews with popular science communicators Sahana Srinivasan (host of Netflix's Brainchild) and Raven Baxter (“Raven the Science Maven”) and artists from performance ensembles The Olimpias and Superhero Clubhouse. In exploring the science performance as a vital but flawed method of public engagement, it offers a critique of the racist, ableist, sexist, and heteronormative ideologies prevalent across the history of science, as well as highlighting science performances that challenge and redress these ideologies." -- Baksida.