Performance Studies Reader

Since its first publication in 2002, The Performance Studies Reader has become the leading anthology of key writings on performance studies. Now in its third edition, it continues to offer an unparalleled selection of work by the foremost in this continually evolving field.
These critical and theoretical contributions are joined in this edition by 16 new chapters, bringing the collection up to date with current discourse and ideas, and cross referencing exactly with Richard Schechner's Performance Studies: An Introduction. The two volumes combine perfectly to offer a unique and complete teaching resource.
The Reader is also widely used by students and scholars around the world as a stand-alone text, offering a stimulating introduction to the crucial debates of Performance Studies.
Each essay now includes new contextual headnotes from the editors, to introduce students to the writer and their impact on the field. Newly added to this edition are contributions from:
Augusto Boal, Jill Dolan, Faye C. Fei and William H. Sun, Erika Fischer Lichte, E. Patrick Johnson, Petra Kuppers, Hans-Thies Lehmann, Bruce McConachie, Jacques Ranciere, Joseph Roach, Rebecca Schneider, Ngugi wa Thiongo
The Reader provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies.

List of contents

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION
Henry Bial and Sara Brady

Part I
What is Performance Studies?

1 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES: THE BROAD SPECTRUM APPROACH
Richard Schechner

2 - THE LIMINAL NORM
Jon McKenzie

3 - PROFESSING PERFORMANCES: DISCIPLINARY GENEALOGIES
Shannon Jackson

4 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

5 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES: INTERVENTIONS AND RADICAL RESEARCH
Dwight Conquergood

6 - Social Performance Studies: Discipline vs. Freedom
Faye C. Fei and William H. Sun

Part II
What is Performance?

7 - PERFORMANCES: BELIEF IN THE PART ONE IS PLAYING
Erving Goffman

8 - BLURRED GENRES: THE REFIGURATION OF SOCIAL THOUGHT
Clifford Geertz

9 - EXCERPT FROM "RESTORATION OF BEHAVIOR"
Richard Schechner

10 - WHAT IS PERFORMANCE?
Marvin Carlson

11 - MARINA ABRAMOVIC: WITNESSING SHADOWS
Peggy Phelan

12 - THE BLUNDERS OF ORPHEUS
Joseph Roach

Part III
Ritual

13 - LIMINALITY AND COMMUNITAS
Victor Turner

14 - "PERFORMANCE" AND OTHER ANALOGIES
Catherine Bell

15 - "THE BLOOD THAT RUNS THROUGH THE VEINS": THE CREATION OF IDENTITY AND A CLIENT'S EXPERIENCE OF CUBAN-AMERICAN SANTERÍA DILOGÚN DIVINATION
Michael Atwood Mason

16 - SAINT ORLAN: RITUAL AS VIOLENT SPECTACLE AND CULTURAL CRITICISM
Alyda Faber

17 - PERFORMATIVE COMMEMORATIVES, THE PERSONAL, AND THE PUBLIC: SPONTANEOUS SHRINES, EMERGENT RITUAL
Jack Santino

18 - REENACTMENT AND RELATIVE PAIN
Rebecca Schneider

Part IV
Play

19 - THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PLAY AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENON
Johan Huizinga

20 - A THEORY OF PLAY AND FANTASY
Gregory Bateson

21 - THE AMBIGUITY OF PLAY
Brian Sutton-Smith

22 - JUST DOING
Allan Kaprow

23 - AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON PLAY, PERFORMANCE, AND RITUAL
Bruce McConachie

24 - THE SOLDIER CYCLE: HARUN FAROCKI'S IMAGES OF WAR (AT A DISTANCE)
Sara Brady

Part V
Performativity

25 - HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS: LECTURE II
J.L. Austin

26 - Excerpt from SIGNATURE EVENT CONTEXT
Jacques Derrida

27 - PERFORMATIVE ACTS AND GENDER CONSTITUTION
Judith Butler

28 - INTRODUCTION TO PERFORMATIVITY AND PERFORMANCE
Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

29 - THEATRE AND ANTHROPOLOGY, THEATRICALITY AND CULTURE
Johannes Fabian

30 - UTOPIAN PERFORMATIVES
Jill Dolan

Part VI
Performing

31 - A DIALOGUE ABOUT ACTING
Bertolt Brecht

32 - THE ACTOR'S TECHNIQUE
Jerzy Grotowski

33 - A DREAM OF PASSION
Lee Strasberg

34 - EXCERPT FROM THE RAINBOW OF DESIRE
Augusto Boal

35 - RECONSIDERING STANISLAVSKY: FEELING, FEMINISM, AND THE ACTOR
Rhonda Blair

36 - Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability Performance
Petra Kuppers

Part VII
Performance Processes

37 - FIRST ATTEMPTS AT A STYLIZED THEATRE
Vsevolod Meyerhold

38 - THE ORAL ARTIST: TRAINING AND PREPARATION
Isidore Okpewho

39 - THE DEEP ORDER CALLED TURBULENCE: THE THREE FACES OF DRAMATURGY
Eugenio Barba

40 - THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE
Mary Zimmerman

41 - Excerpt from Postdramatic Theatre
Hans-Thies Lehmann

42 - Excerpt from The Emancipated Spectator
Jacques Ranciere

43 - From Page to Stage: The Making of Sweet Tea
Patrick E. Johnson

Part VIII
Global and Intercultural Performances

44 - PERFORMING ETHNOGRAPHY
Victor Turner with Edie Turner

45 - OF MIMICRY AND MAN
Homi K. Bhabha

46 - TRANSLATING PERFORMANCE
Diana Taylor
47 - Interweaving Cultures in Performance: Different States of Being In-Between
Erika Fischer-Lichte

48 - Hemispheric America in Deep Time
Jill Lane

49 - Orature and Cyberture
Ng g wa Thiong'o

50 - Performance Studies 3.0
Henry Bial

INDEX

About the author

Henry Bial is Professor of Theatre and Director of the School of the Arts at the University of Kansas, USA.
Sara Brady is Assistant Professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York.

Product details

• Authors: Henry (University of Kansas Bial
• Assisted by: Henry Bial (Editor), Bial Henry (Editor), Sara Brady (Editor), Brady Sara (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.08.2015
• EAN: 9781138023369
• ISBN: 978-1-138-02336-9
• No. of pages: 422
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, Theatre Studies, Other performing arts, Dance & Other Performing Arts