3rd Edition

The Performance Studies Reader

Edited By Henry Bial, Sara Brady Copyright 2016
    438 Pages
    by Routledge

    438 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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 ABRAMOVIĆ: 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

    Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

    50 - Performance Studies 3.0

    Henry Bial

    INDEX

    Biography

    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.