Teaching performance studies
By: edited by Nathan Stucky and Cynthia Wimmer ; with a foreword by Richard Schechner.
Contributors: Stucky, Nathan, 1950-; Wimmer, Cynthia, 1946-
Series: Theater in the Americas
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press; Southern Illinois University
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Carbondale
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Performing arts -- Study and teaching; Performing arts
Description: Edited by Nathan Stucky and Cynthia Wimmer, Teaching Performance Studies is the first organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice, and pedagogy. This collection of eighteen essays by leading scholars and educators reflects 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 and cultural ritual. The cross-disciplinary freedom enacted by the writers suggests a new vision of performance studies--a deliberate commerce between field and classroom.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.