The Performance Studies Reader

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.

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 ABRAMOVI: 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 CLIENTS EXPERIENCE OF CUBAN-AMERICAN SANTERA DILOGN 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 FAROCKIS 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 ACTORS 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 Ngg wa Thiongo 50 - Performance Studies 3.0 Henry Bial INDEX