The Performance Studies Reader / Henry Bial

CONTENTSACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONHenry Bial and Sara BradyPart IWhat is Performance Studies?1 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES: THE BROAD SPECTRUM APPROACHRichard Schechner2 - THE LIMINAL NORMJon McKenzie3 - PROFESSING PERFORMANCES: DISCIPLINARY GENEALOGIESShannon Jackson4 - PERFORMANCE STUDIESBarbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett5 - PERFORMANCE STUDIES: INTERVENTIONS AND RADICAL RESEARCHDwight Conquergood6 - Social Performance Studies: Discipline vs. FreedomFaye C. Fei and William H. SunPart IIWhat is Performance?7 - PERFORMANCES: BELIEF IN THE PART ONE IS PLAYINGErving Goffman8 - BLURRED GENRES: THE REFIGURATION OF SOCIAL THOUGHTClifford Geertz9 - EXCERPT FROM "RESTORATION OF BEHAVIOR"Richard Schechner10 - WHAT IS PERFORMANCE?Marvin Carlson11 - MARINA ABRAMOVIC: WITNESSING SHADOWSPeggy Phelan12 - THE BLUNDERS OF ORPHEUSJoseph RoachPart IIIRitual13 - LIMINALITY AND COMMUNITASVictor Turner14 - "PERFORMANCE" AND OTHER ANALOGIESCatherine Bell15 - "THE BLOOD THAT RUNS THROUGH THE VEINS": THE CREATION OF IDENTITY AND A CLIENT'S EXPERIENCE OF CUBAN-AMERICAN SANTERIA DILOGUN DIVINATIONMichael Atwood Mason16 - SAINT ORLAN: RITUAL AS VIOLENT SPECTACLE AND CULTURAL CRITICISMAlyda Faber17 - PERFORMATIVE COMMEMORATIVES, THE PERSONAL, AND THE PUBLIC: SPONTANEOUS SHRINES, EMERGENT RITUALJack Santino18 - REENACTMENT AND RELATIVE PAINRebecca SchneiderPart IVPlay19 - THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF PLAY AS A CULTURAL PHENOMENONJohan Huizinga20 - A THEORY OF PLAY AND FANTASYGregory Bateson21 - THE AMBIGUITY OF PLAYBrian Sutton-Smith22 - JUST DOINGAllan Kaprow23 - AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE ON PLAY, PERFORMANCE, AND RITUALBruce McConachie24 - THE SOLDIER CYCLE: HARUN FAROCKI'S IMAGES OF WAR (AT A DISTANCE)Sara BradyPart VPerformativity25 - HOW TO DO THINGS WITH WORDS: LECTURE IIJ.L. Austin26 - Excerpt from SIGNATURE EVENT CONTEXTJacques Derrida27 - PERFORMATIVE ACTS AND GENDER CONSTITUTIONJudith Butler28 - INTRODUCTION TO PERFORMATIVITY AND PERFORMANCEAndrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick29 - THEATRE AND ANTHROPOLOGY, THEATRICALITY AND CULTUREJohannes Fabian30 - UTOPIAN PERFORMATIVESJill DolanPart VIPerforming31 - A DIALOGUE ABOUT ACTINGBertolt Brecht32 - THE ACTOR'S TECHNIQUEJerzy Grotowski33 - A DREAM OF PASSIONLee Strasberg34 - EXCERPT FROM THE RAINBOW OF DESIREAugusto Boal35 - RECONSIDERING STANISLAVSKY: FEELING, FEMINISM, AND THE ACTORRhonda Blair36 - Addenda, Phenomenology, Embodiment: Cyborgs and Disability PerformancePetra KuppersPart VIIPerformance Processes37 - FIRST ATTEMPTS AT A STYLIZED THEATREVsevolod Meyerhold38 - THE ORAL ARTIST: TRAINING AND PREPARATIONIsidore Okpewho39 - THE DEEP ORDER CALLED TURBULENCE: THE THREE FACES OF DRAMATURGYEugenio Barba40 - THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PERFORMANCEMary Zimmerman41 - Excerpt from Postdramatic TheatreHans-Thies Lehmann 42 - Excerpt from The Emancipated SpectatorJacques Ranciere43 - From Page to Stage: The Making of Sweet TeaPatrick E. JohnsonPart VIIIGlobal and Intercultural Performances44 - PERFORMING ETHNOGRAPHYVictor Turner with Edie Turner45 - OF MIMICRY AND MANHomi K. Bhabha46 - TRANSLATING PERFORMANCEDiana Taylor47 - Interweaving Cultures in Performance: Different States of Being In-BetweenErika Fischer-Lichte48 - Hemispheric America in Deep TimeJill Lane49 - Orature and CybertureNgugi wa Thiong'o50 - Performance Studies 3.0Henry BialINDEX

This reader provides a lively anthology of critical writings on the burgeoning discipline of performance studies. It provides an overview of the full range of performance theory for undergraduates at all levels, and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre and performing arts.