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 ABRAMOVIC: 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 CLIENT'S EXPERIENCE OF CUBAN-AMERICAN SANTERIA DILOGUN 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 FAROCKI'S 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 ACTOR'S 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
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
50 - Performance Studies 3.0
Henry Bial
INDEX