Performance Studies in Motion offers multiple perspectives on the current field of performance studies and suggests its future directions. Featuring new essays by pioneers Richard Schechner and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and by international scholars and practitioners, it shows how performance can offer a new way of seeing the world, and testifies to the dynamism of this discipline.
Beginning with an overview of the development of performance studies, the essays offer new insights into: contemporary experimental and postdramatic theatre; participatory performance and museum exhibitions; the performance of politicians, political institutions and grassroots protest movements; theatricality at war and in contemporary religious rituals, and performative practices in therapy, education and life sciences.
Employing original reflexive approaches to concrete case studies and situations, contributors introduce a variety of applications of performance studies methodologies to contemporary culture, art and society, creating new interdisciplinary links between the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences. With studies from and about places as diverse as Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Israel, Korea, Palestine, the Philippines, Poland, Rwanda and the USA, Performance Studies in Motion showcases the vitality and breadth of the field today.
Recenzijos
Stimulated by the pioneering work of Richard Schechner, this book does, as the saying goes, exactly what it says on the tin ... [ It] should appeal to a wide audience of under -graduate and postgraduate readers, particularly researchers and teachers of performance studies, whose academic palate savours the varied taste of international research cuisine, captured in a stimulating menu of real world case studies. The power of the book is to be found in the creative and contemporary insights captured in the versatility of these case studies and the attention to detail paid to the dynamic relations between topics in both the social and pure sciences as well as the humanities. -- Deborah Newton * New Theatre Quarterly * As well as providing a platform for practitioners and scholars working at the bleeding edge of performance, adapting theory to real world contexts and reflecting on issues raised by practice, the editors have collated truly international perspectives. * Platform * Performance Studies in Motion offers a heterogeneous ensemble of case studies of performances in their concrete contexts ... The question of the normative, dark, even dangerous dimensions of performance that the anthology raises are certainly a challenge for the generally rather optimistic stance of Schechnerian PS. It is from here that exciting impulses for the next moves of Performance Studies promise to come. -- Vivien Aehlig, Freie Universitat, Berlin * Theater Forschung * Performance Studies in Motion marks an increasing diversification of cultural representation and frameworks for analysis in publications about performance studies. This makes it an invaluable resource. * TDR: The Drama Review *
Daugiau informacijos
Performance Studies in Motion explores the latest phase in the evolution of the field with essays from leading scholars and practitioners from around the world.
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
* Introduction
Atay Citron, Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, and David Zerbib
* Motion I: Performance Studies:Perspectives and Prospectives
1. Dionysus in 1966: The Force of Performative Circumstances / David Zerbib
2. Performance Studies 3.0 / Henry Bial
3. Can We Be The (New) Third World? / Richard Schechner
* Motion II: Beyond Experimental Theatre
4. Table on Stage: The Rise of the Messenger / Carol Martin
5. Performing History, Performing Memory with the Théātre du Soleil / Judith
Miller
6. Embodying the Performance Text: Tradition versus New Dramaturgy in
Contemporary German Postdramatic Theatre / Gad Kaynar
* Motion III: Performance in/of Social Spaces
7. Re: Location / Sharon Aronson-Lehavi
8. Critically Civic: Public Movement's Performative Activism / Daphna
Ben-Shaul
9. Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
/ an interview with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
* Motion IV: Into the Political Arena
10. The Impossible Disappearance of Belgium: Notes on Politics, Dramaturgy
and Performance/ Klaas Tindemans
11. National Street Theatre: Large-Scale Performances in Poland after the
Crash of the Presidential Plane / Dariusz Kosinski
12. Social Transformance: In Defense of Political Performance/Art / Eva
Brenner
* Motion V: At War
13. Beyond the Boundary of the Agora: the Hilltop Performance at the Western
Front, 1915 / Annabelle Winograd
14. Dismantling Road Blocks: Non-Violent Resistance of the
Palestinian-Israeli Group Combatants for Peace / Chen Alon
15. Theatre as Metaphor: Isōko Rwandas Trilogy of Time / Jennifer H.
Capraru
* Motion VI: Contemporary Rituals: Challenges and Changes
16. At the Site of the Void: Inaesthetics of Performance in the Bicol Dotoc
/ Jazmin Badong Llana
17. New Technologies in Korean Shamanism: Cultural Innovation and the
Preservation of Tradition / Liora Sarfati
18. Performing Jewish Prayer on Stage: From Rituality to Theatricality and
Back / Sarit Cofman-Simhon
* Motion VII: Applied Performance Studies: Therapy, Activism, and Education
19. Audacity and Insane Courage: Clown Doctors' Secret Remedies / Atay
Citron
20. Performing the World: The Performance Turn in Social Activism / Lois
Holzman and Dan Friedman
21. Social Performance Studies: A New PS School with Chinese Characteristics
/ William Huizhu Sun and Faye Chunfang Fei
* Motion VIII: Performance Studies and Life Sciences
22. What Is Performance Anyway? A Cognitive Approach / Tomasz Kubikowski
23. The Mirror Game: A Natural Science Study of Togetherness/ Lior Noy
24. Performing Science / Uri Alon
Notes
About the Contributors
Index
Atay Citron is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Haifa, Israel.
Sharon Aronson-Lehavi is Senior Lecturer of theatre and performance studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
David Zerbib is Professor in the Philosophy of Art, Geneva University of Art and Design, Switzerland; Lecturer, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
