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Book SynopsisAn organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice and pedagogy. The 18 essays by scholars and educators seek to reflect the emergent and contested nature of performance studies, a field that looks at the broad range of human performance from everyday conversation to formal theatre.
Trade Reviewrecounts a wide variety of teaching methods, experiences, theories, and approaches. All of it fits under the big performance studies tent.... An elusive, playful, embodied, multifaceted, protean operation: Teaching performance studies is very much a creative art. - Richard Schechner, from the Foreword
Table of ContentsIntroduction - The Power of Transformation in Performance Studies Pedagogy, Nathan Stucky and Cynthia Wimmer; Theatre Studies/Cultural Studies/Performance Studies - The Three Unities, Joseph Roach; Critical Performative Pedagogy - Fleshing Out the Politics of Liberatory Education, Elyse Lamm Pineau; Speaking of God - Performance Pedagogy in the Theological School, Richard F. Ward; The Queer Performance that Will Have Been - Student-Teachers in the Archive, Craig Gringrich-Philbrook; Performance Theory in an Anthropology Programme, William O. Beeman; The Poetics and Politics of Practice - Experience, Embodiment, and the Engagement of Scholarship, Michelle Kisliuk; Performance Studies, Pedagogy, and Bodies in/as the Classroom, Judith Hamera; Deep Embodiment - The Epistemology of Natural Performance, Nathan Stucky; Action, Structure, Task and Emotion - Theories of Acting, Emotion, and Performer Training from a Performance Studies Perspective, Phillip B. Zarrilli; Performing the Mystory - A Textshop in Autoperformance, Michael S. Bowman and Ruth Laurion Bowman; Teaching in the Borderlands, Joni L. Jones; The Dialogics of Performance and Pedagogy, Arthur J. Sabatini; Improvising Disciplines - Performance Studies and Theatre, Linda M. Park-Fuller; ""I Dwell in Possibility - "" -Teaching Consulting Applications for Performance Studies, Cynthia Wimmer; Performative In(ter)ventions - Designing Future Technologies Through Synergetic Performance, Eric Dishman; Theatre of the Oppressed with Students of Privilege - Practising Boal in the American College Classroom, Bruce McConachie; Performance Studies, Neuroscience, and the Limits of Culture, John Emigh.
