Performance Studies Reader

Henry Bial is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre & Dance at the University of Kansas, USA. He is the author of Acting Jewish: Negotiating Ethnicity on the American Stage and Screen (2005) and Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage (2015).Sara Brady is Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Bronx Community College and Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA, and Managing Editor of TDR. She is the author of Performance, Politics and the War on Terror (2012) and coeditor with Lindsey Mantoan of Performance in a Militarized Culture (2018).

• IntroductionHenry Bial and Sara BradyPart 1: Reading Performance1. Performances: Belief in the Part One is PlayingErving Goffman2. Blurred Genres: The Refiguration of Social ThoughtClifford Geertz3. From “Restoration of Behavior”Richard Schechner4. From “The Ontology of Performance”Peggy Phelan5. Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical ResearchDwight Conquergood6. From The Archive and the RepertoireDiana Taylor7. From Stages of EmergencyTracy C. Davis8. Professing Performance: Disciplinary GenealogiesShannon Jackson9. Social Performance Studies: Discipline vs. FreedomFaye C. Fei and William H. Sun10. Magic of ObjectsFred Moten11. The Theorist and the Theorized: Indigenous Critiques of Performance StudiesStephanie Nohelani TevesPart 2: Play and Ritual12. The Nature and Significance of Play as a Cultural PhenomenonJohan Huizinga13. Liminality and CommunitasVictor Turner14. “Performance” and Other AnalogiesCatherine Bell15. Just DoingAllan Kaprow16. The Ambiguity of PlayBrian Sutton-Smith17. From “Jazz Performance as Ritual”Travis Jackson18. Performative Commemoratives, the Personal, and the Public: Spontaneous Shrines, Emergent RitualJack Santino19. From Gamer TheoryMckenzie Wark20. Reenactment and Relative PainRebecca Schneider21. Burning the Bull: the Changing Meanings of a Harvest Ritual in the AnthropoceneTamara Searle22. Cliodynamics: An Evolutionary Approach to Rituals and Performance HistoryBruce McConachiePart 3: Performativity and the Social23. How to do things with words: Lecture IIJ.l. Austin24. From “Signature Event Context”Jacques Derrida25. Performative Acts and Gender ConstitutionJudith Butler26. Destination MuseumBarbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett27. From DisidentificationsJosé Esteban Muñoz28. Shattered Back wall: Performative Utterance of a Doll's HouseBranislav Jakovljević29. From “Shame Before Others”Sara Ahmed30. Utopian PerformativesJill Dolan31. Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability PerformancePetra Kuppers32. The Social Turn: Collaboration and its DiscontentsClaire Bishop33. Unburdening RepresentationTavia Nyong'o34. God, the Pilot, and the Bugsplat: Performance and the Drone EffectSara BradyPart 4: Repetition and Resistance35. A Dialogue about ActingBertolt Brecht36. The Actor’s TechniqueJerzy Grotowski37. The Oral Artist: Training and PreparationIsidore Okpewho38. Of Mimicry and ManHomi K. Bhabha39. From Rainbow of DesireAugusto Boal40. From Cities of the DeadJoseph Roach41. The Centrality of PracticeSaidiya V. Hartman42. From The Emancipated SpectatorJacques Rancière43. Choreopolice and Choreopolitics: or, the Task of the DancerAndré Lepecki44. Reconstruction, Fugitive Intimacy, and Holding HistorySoyica Diggs Colbert45. Constructing Genealogies of Disobedient Performance: Disappearance by/in the MediaAnita E. Cherian and Gargi BharadwajPart 5: Futurity and Possibility46. The Archaeology of PerformanceMary Zimmerman47. From Postdramatic TheatreHans-Thies Lehmann48. Interweaving Cultures in Performance: Different States of Being In-BetweenErika Fischer-Lichte49. TemporalitySarah Bay-Cheng50. Hemispheric America in Deep TimeJill Lane51. Orature and CybertureNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o52. Performance Studies 3.0Henry Bial53. The Future Has Always Been Black: a dancing word manifestoThomas F. Defrantz/SLIPPAGE54. From Ideas to Postpone the End of the WorldAilton Krenak55. A Manifesto to Decentre Theatre and Performance StudiesSwati Arora56. Towards Planetary Performance Pedagogy: Digital Companions in Multipolar ClassroomsFelipe Cervera, Theron Schmidt, and Hannah Schwadron