Conversations & Presentations—Richard Schechner Day—Martin E. Segal Theatre Center—CUNY—Part 1
Channel: HowlRound Theatre Commons
Date: 01/12/2015

The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presents Richard Schechner Day livestreaming on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday, November 30. 

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Join us for an extraordinary day at the Segal Center celebrating the work of Richard Schechner, who recently celebrated his 81st birthday. The formation of performance studies by Schechner and his colleagues at NYU created new ways to understand human behavior and the performing arts. The day will highlight Schechner as a director, scholar, trainer, and performance anthropologist. This rare presentation highlights a day-long celebration of Schechner’s work as a theatre director, teacher, theorist, writer, editor, and founder of the Performance Group and East Coast Artists. Schechner is currently a University Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. His many influential books include Performance Studies—An Introduction; Environmental Theater; Between Theater and Anthropology; Performance Theory, and the recent Performed Imaginaries (2015). Schechner is also the editor of the Enactments Series, a series published in India by Seagull Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press.

The evening will feature Schechner reading selections from his poetry and fiction, as well as entries from five decades worth of notebooks. The evening event is presented in collaboration with Karen Sander, Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

LIVESTREAM SCHEDULE

9:00am EST
Ramlila Of Ramnagar
Documenting the staging of the Hindu epic
With Rishika Mehrishi + Richard Schechner

10:00am EST
The Director
A presentation by Richard Schechner, followed by a discussion with Marvin Carlson
Screenings and slides (presented throughout the day):

Dionysus in 69 (1968)
Tooth of Crime (1973)
Mother Courage (1976, slides)
Cherry Orchard (1983, India, slides)
Oresteia (1995, Taiwan)
Three Sisters (1997)
Hamlet (2007, China)
Swimming to Spalding (2009)
Imagining O (2014)

See more at: http://howlround.com/livestreaming-conversation-richard-schechner-s-notebooks-fiction-poetry-martin-e-segal-theatre

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