TY  - BOOK
AU  - Citron,Atay
AU  - Aronson-Lehavi,Sharon
AU  - Zerbib,David
TI  - Performance Studies in Motion: International Perspectives and Practices in the Twenty-First Century
SN  - 9781408185759
AV  - BF575 .P474 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Bloomsbury Publishing
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Through direct action: The Shuffa performance; 2; 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'; 2; b
N2  - 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
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