Between Theater & Anthropology

Between Theater & Anthropology
Author: Richard Schechner
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1985
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780812212259

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
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0812200926

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.

From Ritual to Theatre

From Ritual to Theatre
Author: Victor Witter Turner
Publisher: New York City : Performing Arts Journal Publications
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1982
Genre: Education
ISBN:

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

A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology

A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology
Author: Eugenio Barba
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2011-03-18
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1135176353

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Environmental Theater

Environmental Theater
Author: Richard Schechner
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1994
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781557831781

"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.

Performance Theory

Performance Theory
Author: Richard Schechner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 113596517X

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
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2003-09-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1134818203

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
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1982
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN:

- 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
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2008
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781845454623

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.