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The Rise of Performance Studies

Rethinking Richard Schechner's Broad Spectrum

Palgrave Macmillan

Part of the book series: Studies in International Performance (STUDINPERF)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. Introduction: The Rise of Performance Studies

    1. Introduction: The Rise of Performance Studies

      • James Harding, Cindy Rosenthal
      Pages 1-10
  3. Performance/Theatre/Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
  4. Performance Studies Genealogies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
    2. Wayang Studies?

      • Paul Rae
      Pages 67-84
    3. Richard Schechner and Performance Studies in China

      • Yu Jiancun, Peng Yongwen
      Pages 98-117
  5. Working with Richard

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
    2. Reactuals: From Personal to Critical and Back

      • Rebecca Schneider
      Pages 135-151
    3. Fanning the Flames: Richard Schechner’s TDR

      • Mariellen R Sandford
      Pages 152-161
  6. Practicing Performance: Schechner among the Performers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191
    2. Richard Schechner

      • Judith Malina
      Pages 193-195
    3. Joan MacIntosh: Interview, July 2008

      • Cindy Rosenthal
      Pages 196-212
    4. Elizabeth LeCompte: Interview, June 2008

      • Cindy Rosenthal
      Pages 213-219

About this book

Few individuals have positioned their work more controversially or consequently than Richard Schechner within the pivotal debates that define Performance Studies. The Rise of Performance Studies is the first collection of essays to critically examine the profound contributions that Schechner has made to Performance Studies as a discipline.

About the authors

JAMES HARDING is Professor of English at the University of Mary Washington, USA. He is a former editor of Theatre Survey, and the author of Cutting Performances: Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the American Avant-Garde and Adorno and a Writing of the Ruins: Essays on Anglo-American Literature and Culture. He is currently finishing a new monograph entitled Decentering the Edge: Critical Theories of Avant-Garde Performance.

CINDY ROSENTHAL is Professor of Drama and Dance and Director of Women's Studies at Hofstra University. She co-edited Restaging the Sixties: Radical Theatres and their Legacies (University of Michigan, 2006) with James Harding and Living on Third Street: Plays of the Living Theatre 1989-1992 (Autonomedia, 2008) with Hanon Reznikov. Current projects include Ellen Stewart Presents: Posters and Chronicles from the Archives of La Mama Experimental Theatre, a monograph analyzing Ellen Stewart's life and work through oral histories and poster art (forthcoming, University of Michigan Press). Her work is also published in Theatre Journal, TDR and Women in Performance. She is a founding member of the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble in Middlebury, Vermont.

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