Performance Studies in Motion (eBook, ePUB)

International Perspectives and Practices in the Twenty-First Century
Redaktion: Citron, Atay; Zerbib, David; Aronson-Lehavi, Sharon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408184134
• Artikelnr.: 40467933

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
Théâtre 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: Isôko
Rwanda's 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