Between Theater & Anthropology
Between Theater & Anthropology

Author: Richard Schechner

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9780812212259

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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.

Between Theater and Anthropology
Between Theater and Anthropology

Author: Richard Schechner

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 0812200926

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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.

Environmental Theater
Environmental Theater

Author: Richard Schechner

Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781557831781

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"There is an actual, living relationship between the spaces of the body and the spaces the body moves through; human living tissue does not abruptly stop at the skin, exercises with space are built on the assumption that human beings and space are both alive." 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. Available for the first time in fifteen years, the new expanded edition of Environmental Theater offers a new generation of theater artists the gospel according to Richard Schechner, the guru whose principles and influence have survived a quarter-century of reaction and debate.

From Ritual to Theatre
From Ritual to Theatre

Author: Victor Witter Turner

Publisher: New York City : Performing Arts Journal Publications

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13:

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Turner looks beyond his routinized discipline to an anthropology of experience . . . We must admire him for this.-Times Literary Supplement

Performance Theory
Performance Theory

Author: Richard Schechner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 113596517X

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First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Paper Canoe
The Paper Canoe

Author: Eugenio Barba

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1134818203

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First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The End of Humanism
The End of Humanism

Author: Richard Schechner

Publisher: New York : Performing Arts Journal Publications

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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- The decline and fall of the (American) Avant-Garde.- The natural/artifical controversy renewed.- The end of humanism.- The crash of performative circumstances, a modernist discourse on postmodernism.

Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance
Victor Turner and Contemporary Cultural Performance

Author: Graham St. John

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9781845454623

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In the twenty years following Victor Turner's death, interventions on the interconnected performance modes of play, drama, and community (dimensions of which Turner deemed the limen), and experimental and analytical forays into the anthropologies of experience and consciousness, have complemented and extended Turnerian readings on the moments and sites of culture's becoming. Examining Turner's continued relevance in performance and popular culture, pilgrimage and communitas, as well as Edith Turner's role, the contributors reflect on the wide application of Victor Turner's thought to cultural performance in the early twenty-first century and explore how Turner's ideas have been re-engaged, renovated, and repurposed in studies of contemporary cultural performance.

Performance Studies
Performance Studies

Author: Richard Schechner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1135652597

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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 Studies: An Introduction also includes the following features: numerous extracts from primary sources giving alternative voices and viewpoints biographies of key thinkers student activities to stimulate fieldwork, classroom exercises and discussion key reading lists for each chapter twenty line drawings and 202 photographs drawn from private and public collections around the world.