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Book SynopsisAtay Citron is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Haifa, Israel.
Sharon Aronson-Lehavi is Senior Lecturer of theatre and performance studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
David Zerbib is Professor in the Philosophy of Art, Geneva University of Art and Design,
Switzerland; Lecturer, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
Trade ReviewStimulated by the pioneering work of Richard Schechner, this book does, as the saying goes, ‘exactly what it says on the tin’ ... [It] should appeal to a wide audience of under -graduate and postgraduate readers, particularly researchers and teachers of performance studies, whose academic palate savours the varied taste of international research cuisine, captured in a stimulating menu of ‘real world’ case studies. The power of the book is to be found in the creative and contemporary insights captured in the versatility of these case studies and the attention to detail paid to the dynamic relations between topics in both the social and pure sciences as well as the humanities. -- Deborah Newton * New Theatre Quarterly *
As well as providing a platform for practitioners and scholars working at the bleeding edge of performance, adapting theory to real world contexts and reflecting on issues raised by practice, the editors have collated truly international perspectives. * Platform *
Performance Studies in Motion offers a heterogeneous ensemble of case studies of performances in their concrete contexts ... The question of the normative, dark, even dangerous dimensions of performance that the anthology raises are certainly a challenge for the generally rather optimistic stance of ‘Schechnerian’ PS. It is from here that exciting impulses for the next moves of Performance Studies promise to come. -- Vivien Aehlig, Freie Universitat, Berlin * Theater Forschung *
Performance Studies in Motion marks an increasing diversification of cultural representation and frameworks for analysis in publications about performance studies. This makes it an invaluable resource. * TDR: The Drama Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations
* Introduction Atay Citron, Sharon Aronson-Lehavi, and David Zerbib * Motion I: Performance Studies:Perspectives and Prospectives 1. Dionysus in 1966: The Force of Performative Circumstances / David Zerbib 2. Performance Studies 3.0 / Henry Bial 3. Can We Be The (New) Third World? / Richard Schechner
* Motion II: Beyond Experimental Theatre 4. Table on Stage: The Rise of the Messenger / Carol Martin 5. Performing History, Performing Memory with the Théâtre du Soleil / Judith Miller 6. Embodying the Performance Text: Tradition versus New Dramaturgy in Contemporary German Postdramatic Theatre / Gad Kaynar
* Motion III: Performance in/of Social Spaces 7. Re: Location / Sharon Aronson-Lehavi 8. Critically Civic: Public Movement's Performative Activism / Daphna Ben-Shaul 9. Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews / an interview with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
* Motion IV: Into the Political Arena 10. The Impossible Disappearance of Belgium: Notes on Politics, Dramaturgy and Performance/ Klaas Tindemans 11. National Street Theatre: Large-Scale Performances in Poland after the Crash of the Presidential Plane / Dariusz Kosinski 12. Social Transformance: In Defense of Political Performance/Art / Eva Brenner
* Motion V: At War 13. Beyond the Boundary of the Agora: the Hilltop Performance at the Western Front, 1915 / Annabelle Winograd 14. Dismantling Road Blocks: Non-Violent Resistance of the Palestinian-Israeli Group ‘Combatants for Peace’ / Chen Alon 15. Theatre as Metaphor: Isôko Rwanda’s Trilogy of Time / Jennifer H. Capraru
* Motion VI: Contemporary Rituals: Challenges and Changes 16. At the Site of the Void: Inaesthetics of Performance in the Bicol Dotoc / Jazmin Badong Llana 17. New Technologies in Korean Shamanism: Cultural Innovation and the Preservation of Tradition / Liora Sarfati 18. Performing Jewish Prayer on Stage: From Rituality to Theatricality and Back / Sarit Cofman-Simhon
* Motion VII: Applied Performance Studies: Therapy, Activism, and Education 19. Audacity and Insane Courage: Clown Doctors' Secret Remedies / Atay Citron 20. Performing the World: The Performance Turn in Social Activism / Lois Holzman and Dan Friedman 21. Social Performance Studies: A New PS School with Chinese Characteristics / William Huizhu Sun and Faye Chunfang Fei
* Motion VIII: Performance Studies and Life Sciences 22. What Is Performance Anyway? A Cognitive Approach / Tomasz Kubikowski 23. The Mirror Game: A Natural Science Study of Togetherness/ Lior Noy 24. Performing Science / Uri Alon
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