Performance Studies in Motion International Perspectives and Practices in the Twenty-First Century.
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, (c)2014.
- 1 online resource (415 pages)
Description based upon print version of record. Through direct action: The Shuffa performance
Includes bibliographies and index.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Motion I: Performance studies: Perspectives and prospectives; Motion II: Beyond experimental theatre; Motion III: Performance in/of social spaces; Motion IV: Into the political arena; Motion V: At war; Motion VI: Contemporary rituals: Challenges and changes; Motion VII: Applied performance studies: Therapy, activism and education; Motion VIII: Performance studies and life sciences; Motion I Performance Studies: Perspectives and Prospectives Chapter 1 Dionysus in 1966: The Force of Performative CircumstancesSymptom; Form and force; Performism; In quest for a Saussure of theatre?; The real thing; Conduction; Chapter 2 Performance Studies 3.0; Chapter 3 Can We Be the (New) Third World?; A PS for PS; Motion II Beyond Experimental Theatre; Chapter 4 Table on Stage: The Rise of the Messenger; Chapter 5 Performing History, Performing Memory with the Théâtre du Soleil; Chapter 6 Textual Dramaturgy and Dramaturg-as-Text: Traditional versus New Dramaturgy in the Era of German Post-Dramatic Theatre*; A note on terminology Fidelity to the source textFidelity to the dramaturg; 'Anti'-translation; Motion III Performance in/of Social Spaces; Chapter 7 Re: Location; Relocations: The history of Performance Art Platform; Re: Location: The Tel Aviv New Central Bus Station; Discipline and difference: The Second Law of Thermodynamics (2005); Community and creativity: Old Wives' Tales: Rise Woman and Make Us a Cake (2006); Relocation: Foreign Work (Avoda Zara): Siteseeing Performance (2012); Chapter 8 Critically Civic: Public Movement's Performative Activism; Ceremonial crisis: Also Thus!; Critically regulated: Emergency Civic visions: Participatory actionsChapter 9 Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews; Motion IV Into the Political Arena; Chapter 10 The Impossible Disappearance of Belgium: Notes on Politics, Dramaturgy and Performance; Introduction; Political fiction; Political facts; Political theatricality; Belgian theatricality; Conclusions about Belgian political performativity; Chapter 11 National Street Theatre: Large-scale Performances in Poland after the Crash of the Presidential Plane; Act I: The performance of mourning; Act II: The game of the election campaign Act III: The drama of the crossAct IV: The struggle for memory; Act V: The anniversary; Chapter 12 'Social Transformance': In Defence of Political Performance/Art; What is 'transformance'?; FLEISCHEREI -- A mission; The 'Theatre Reform' and the project On Axis as constructive response; Socio-theatrical experiments; Post-democracy, post-dramatics -- and its discontents; Motion V At War; Chapter 13 Beyond the Boundary of the Agora: The Hilltop Performance at the Western Front, 1915; Chapter 14 Dismantling Road Blocks: Non-Violent Resistance of the Palestinian-Israeli Group 'Combatants for Peace'
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; th.