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Author : Richard Schechner
Release : 2003-09-02
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Performance Theory by : Richard Schechner
Download or read book Performance Theory written by Richard Schechner. This book was released on 2003-09-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Thomas F. DeFrantz
Release : 2014-04-14
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Black Performance Theory by : Thomas F. DeFrantz
Download or read book Black Performance Theory written by Thomas F. DeFrantz. This book was released on 2014-04-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black performance theory is a rich interdisciplinary area of study and critical method. This collection of new essays by some of its pioneering thinkers—many of whom are performers—demonstrates the breadth, depth, innovation, and critical value of black performance theory. Considering how blackness is imagined in and through performance, the contributors address topics including flight as a persistent theme in African American aesthetics, the circulation of minstrel tropes in Liverpool and in Afro-Mexican settlements in Oaxaca, and the reach of hip-hop politics as people around the world embrace the music and dance. They examine the work of contemporary choreographers Ronald K. Brown and Reggie Wilson, the ways that African American playwrights translated the theatricality of lynching to the stage, the ecstatic music of Little Richard, and Michael Jackson's performance in the documentary This Is It. The collection includes several essays that exemplify the performative capacity of writing, as well as discussion of a project that re-creates seminal hip-hop album covers through tableaux vivants. Whether deliberating on the tragic mulatta, the trickster figure Anansi, or the sonic futurism of Nina Simone and Adrienne Kennedy, the essays in this collection signal the vast untapped critical and creative resources of black performance theory. Contributors. Melissa Blanco Borelli, Daphne A. Brooks, Soyica Diggs Colbert, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Nadine George-Graves, Anita Gonzalez, Rickerby Hinds, Jason King, D. Soyini Madison, Koritha Mitchell, Tavia Nyong'o, Carl Paris, Anna B. Scott, Wendy S. Walters, Hershini Bhana Young
Author : Richard Schechner
Release : 2017-07-14
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 721/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Performance Studies by : Richard Schechner
Download or read book Performance Studies written by Richard Schechner. This book was released on 2017-07-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Schechner is a pioneer of Performance Studies. A scholar, theatre director, editor, and playwright he is University Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and Editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. He is the author of Public Domain (1969), Environmental Theater (1973), The End of Humanism (1982), Performance Theory (2003, Routledge), Between Theater and Anthropology (1985), The Future of Ritual (1993, Routledge), and Over, Under, and Around: Essays on Performance and Culture (2004). His books have been translated into French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Serbo-Croat, German, Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Polish. He is the general editor of the Worlds of Performance series published by Routledge and the co-editor of the Enactments series published by Seagull Books. Sara Brady is Assistant Professor at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York (CUNY). She is author of Performance, Politics and the War on Terror (2012).
Author : Janelle G. Reinelt
Release : 2007
Genre : Theater
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Book Rating : 869/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Critical Theory and Performance by : Janelle G. Reinelt
Download or read book Critical Theory and Performance written by Janelle G. Reinelt. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated and enlarged, this groundbreaking collection surveys the major critical currents and approaches in drama, theater, and performance
Author : Simon Shepherd
Release : 2016-03-15
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 136/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Performance Theory by : Simon Shepherd
Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Performance Theory written by Simon Shepherd. This book was released on 2016-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does 'performance theory' really mean and why has it become so important across such a large number of disciplines, from art history to religious studies and architecture to geography? In this introduction Simon Shepherd explains the origins of performance theory, defines the terms and practices within the field and provides new insights into performance's wide range of definitions and uses. Offering an overview of the key figures, their theories and their impact, Shepherd provides a fresh approach to figures including Erving Goffman and Richard Schechner and ideas such as radical art practice, performance studies, radical scenarism and performativity. Essential reading for students, scholars and enthusiasts, this engaging account travels from universities into the streets and back again to examine performance in the context of political activists and teachers, countercultural experiments and feminist challenges, and ceremonies and demonstrations.
