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9781408184073 English 1408184079 "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; the performance of politicians, political institutions and grassroots protest movements; theatricality at war and in contemporary religious rituals, and performative practices in therapy, education and life sciences. Employing original reflexive approaches to concrete case studies and situations, contributors introduce a variety of applications of performance studies methodologies to contemporary culture, art and society, creating new interdisciplinary links between the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences. With studies from and about places as diverse as Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Israel, Korea, Palestine, the Philippines, Poland, Rwanda and the USA, "Performance Studies in Motion" showcases the vitality and breadth of the field today., Performance Studies in Motion brings together essays by leading international scholars and practitioners to map the present and future of the field of performance studies. Covering diverse culture areas they examine the field's diversification in a variety of contexts and demonstrate its influence, implementation and academic experimentalism. The essays analyse social, political, theatrical, therapeutic, religious, artistic and biological phenomena and processes that are understood as performative. Employing a reflexive approach to observation, description, and analysis, contributors introduce a variety of applications of performance studies methodologies to contemporary life, thus showing how the field can continue to create significant links among arts, humanities, and social and life sciences. The essays in "Performance Studies in Motion" bring together critical perspectives addressing theoretical notions and case studies from places as diverse as Austria, China, Belgium, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Korea, the Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, and the USA., This book brings together essays by leading international scholars and practitioners to map the present and future of the field of performance studies. Covering diverse cultural areas, they examine the field's diversification in a variety of contexts and demonstrate its influence, implementation and academic experimentalism. The essays analyse social, political, theatrical, therapeutic, religious, artistic and biological phenomena and processes that are understood as performative.Employing a reflexive approach to observation, description, and analysis, contributors introduce a variety of applications of performance studies methodologies to contemporary life, thus showing how the field can continue to create significant links among arts, humanities, and social and life sciences. The essays in Performance Studies in Motion bring together critical perspectives addressing theoretical notions and case studies from places as diverse as Austria, China, Belgium, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Korea, the Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, and the USA.
9781408184073 English 1408184079 "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; the performance of politicians, political institutions and grassroots protest movements; theatricality at war and in contemporary religious rituals, and performative practices in therapy, education and life sciences. Employing original reflexive approaches to concrete case studies and situations, contributors introduce a variety of applications of performance studies methodologies to contemporary culture, art and society, creating new interdisciplinary links between the arts, humanities, and social and natural sciences. With studies from and about places as diverse as Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Israel, Korea, Palestine, the Philippines, Poland, Rwanda and the USA, "Performance Studies in Motion" showcases the vitality and breadth of the field today., Performance Studies in Motion brings together essays by leading international scholars and practitioners to map the present and future of the field of performance studies. Covering diverse culture areas they examine the field's diversification in a variety of contexts and demonstrate its influence, implementation and academic experimentalism. The essays analyse social, political, theatrical, therapeutic, religious, artistic and biological phenomena and processes that are understood as performative. Employing a reflexive approach to observation, description, and analysis, contributors introduce a variety of applications of performance studies methodologies to contemporary life, thus showing how the field can continue to create significant links among arts, humanities, and social and life sciences. The essays in "Performance Studies in Motion" bring together critical perspectives addressing theoretical notions and case studies from places as diverse as Austria, China, Belgium, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Korea, the Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, and the USA., This book brings together essays by leading international scholars and practitioners to map the present and future of the field of performance studies. Covering diverse cultural areas, they examine the field's diversification in a variety of contexts and demonstrate its influence, implementation and academic experimentalism. The essays analyse social, political, theatrical, therapeutic, religious, artistic and biological phenomena and processes that are understood as performative.Employing a reflexive approach to observation, description, and analysis, contributors introduce a variety of applications of performance studies methodologies to contemporary life, thus showing how the field can continue to create significant links among arts, humanities, and social and life sciences. The essays in Performance Studies in Motion bring together critical perspectives addressing theoretical notions and case studies from places as diverse as Austria, China, Belgium, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Korea, the Philippines, Poland, Rwanda, and the USA.