The performance studies reader

Introduction / Henry Bial with Sara Brady

What is performance studies? Performance studies: the broad spectrum approach / Richard Schechner

The liminal-norm / Jon McKenzie

Professing performances: disciplinary genealogies / Shannon Jackson

Performance studies / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Performance studies: interventions and radical research / Dwight Conquergood

Social performance studies: discipline vs. freedom / Faye C. Fei and William H. Sun

What is performance? Performances: belief in the part one is playing / Erving Goffman

Blurred genres: the refiguration of social thought / Clifford Geertz

Excerpt from "Restoration of behavior" / Richard Schechner

What is performance? / Marvin Carlson

Marina Abramović: witnessing shadows / Peggy Phelan

Performance: the blunders of Orpheus / Joseph Roach

Ritual. Liminality and communitas / Victor Turner

"Performance" and other analogies / Catherine Bell

"The blood that runs through the veins": the creation of identity and a client's experience of Cuban-American Santería Dilogún divination / Michael Atwood Mason

Saint Orlan: ritual as violent spectacle and cultural criticism / Alyda Faber

Performative commemoratives, the personal, and the public: spontaneous shrines, emergent ritual / Jack Santino

Reenactment and relative pain / Rebecca Schneider

Play. The nature and significance of play as a cultural phenomenon / Johan Huizinga

A theory of play and fantasy / Gregory Bateson

The ambiguity of play: rhetorics of fate / Brian Sutton-Smith

Just doing / Allan Kaprow

An evolutionary perspective on play, performance, and ritual / Bruce McConachie

The soldier cycle: Harun Farocki's Images of war (at a distance) / Sara Brady.

Performativity. How to do things with words: lecture II / J.L. Austin

Excerpt from "Signature event context" / Jacques Derrida

Performative acts and gender constitution: an essay in phenomenology and feminist theory / Judith Butler

Introduction to Performativity and performance / Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Theater and anthropology, theatricality and culture / Johannes Fabian

Utopian performatives / Jill Dolan

Performing. A dialogue about acting / Bertolt Brecht

The actor's technique / Jerzy Grotowski

A dream of passion / Lee Strasberg

Excerpt from The rainbow of desire / Augusto Boal

Reconsidering Stanislavsky: feeling, feminism, and the actor / Rhonda Blair

Addenda, phenomenology, embodiment: cyborgs and disability performance / Petra Kuppers

Performance processes. First attempts at a stylized theatre / Vsevolod Meyerhold

The oral artist: training and preparation / Isidore Okpewho

The deep order called turbulence: the three faces of dramaturgy / Eugenio Barba

The archaeology of performance / Mary Zimmerman

Excerpt from Postdramatic theatre / Hans-Thies Lehmann

Excerpt from The emancipated spectator / Jacques Rancière

From page to stage: the making of Sweet tea / E. Patrick Johnson

Global and intercultural performances. Performing ethnography / Victor Turner with Edie Turner

Of mimicry and man / Homi K. Bhabha

Translating performance / Diana Taylor

Interweaving cultures in performance: different states of being in-between / Erika Fischer-Lichte

Hemispheric America in deep time / Jill Lane

Orature and cyberture / Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'O

Performance studies 3.0 / Henry Bial.