This book offers an engaging exploration of performance through various contextual and theoretical lenses. It presents a comprehensive overview that makes complex ideas approachable, encouraging readers to understand the multifaceted nature of performance. By examining different perspectives, it highlights the significance of context in shaping performance practices and theories, making it a valuable resource for both students and enthusiasts of the performing arts.
Exploring key themes of 21st-century society, Richard Schechner, a performance studies scholar and artist, offers a collection of insightful essays. His unique perspective delves into the intersections of art, culture, and performance, providing thought-provoking commentary on contemporary issues and encouraging readers to reflect on the evolving landscape of human expression and social dynamics.
In this second edition, the author opens with a discussion of important developments in the discipline. His closing chapter, 'Global and Intercultural Performance', is completely rewritten in light of the post-9/11 world. Fully revised chapters with new examples, biographies and source material provide a lively, easily accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. Among the topics discussed are the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of everyday life. Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the social sciences, performing arts, post-structuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthetics. User-friendly, with a special text design, Performance An Introduction also includes the following
This cogent and provocative compilation of essays is now a classic text for students of the emergent discipline of performance studies. schovat popis
Here are the exercises which began as radical departures from standard actor training etiquette and which stand now as classic means through which the performer discovers his or her true power of transformation. This expanded edition offers a new generation of theater artists the gospel according to Richard Schechner, the guru whose principles and influence have influenced a quarter century of theater.
A brilliant examination of cultural expression and communal action, The Future of Ritual asks pertinent questions about art, theatre and the changing meaning of 'culture' in today's intercultural world.
In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others fascinated (but perhaps terrified) by the multichannel realities of the postmodern world.Schechner argues that in failing to see the structure of the whole theatrical process, anthropologists in particular have neglected close analogies between performance behavior and ritual. The way performances are created—in training, workshops, and rehearsals—is the key paradigm for social process.