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Index
Cover-Page
Half-Title
Series
Title
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Motion I: Performance studies: Perspectives and prospectives
Motion II: Beyond experimental theatre
Motion III: Performance in/of social spaces
Motion IV: Into the political arena
Motion V: At war
Motion VI: Contemporary rituals: Challenges and changes
Motion VII: Applied performance studies: Therapy, activism and education
Motion VIII: Performance studies and life sciences
Motion I Performance Studies: Perspectives and Prospectives
1 Dionysus in 1966: The Force of Performative Circumstances
Symptom
Form and force
Performism
In quest for a Saussure of theatre?
The real thing
Conduction
2 Performance Studies 3.0
3 Can We Be the (New) Third World?
A PS for PS
Motion II Beyond Experimental Theatre
4 Table on Stage: The Rise of the Messenger
5 Performing History, Performing Memory with the Théâtre du Soleil
6 Textual Dramaturgy and Dramaturg-as-Text: Traditional versus New Dramaturgy in the Era of German Post-Dramatic Theatre
A note on terminology
Fidelity to the source text
Fidelity to the dramaturg
‘Anti’-translation
Motion III Performance in/of Social Spaces
7 Re: Location
Relocations: The history of Performance Art Platform
Re: Location: The Tel Aviv New Central Bus Station
Discipline and difference: The Second Law of Thermodynamics (2005)
Community and creativity: Old Wives’ Tales: Rise Woman and Make Us a Cake (2006)
Relocation: Foreign Work (Avoda Zara): Siteseeing Performance (2012)
8 Critically Civic: Public Movement’s Performative Activism
Ceremonial crisis: Also Thus!
Critically regulated: Emergency
Civic visions: Participatory actions
9 Rising from the Rubble: Creating the Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Motion IV Into the Political Arena
10 The Impossible Disappearance of Belgium: Notes on Politics, Dramaturgy and Performance
Introduction
Political fiction
Political facts
Political theatricality
Belgian theatricality
Conclusions about Belgian political performativity
11 National Street Theatre: Large-scale Performances in Poland after the Crash of the Presidential Plane
Act I: The performance of mourning
Act II: The game of the election campaign
Act III: The drama of the cross
Act IV: The struggle for memory
Act V: The anniversary
12 ‘Social Transformance’: In Defence of Political Performance/Art
What is ‘transformance’?
FLEISCHEREI – A mission
The ‘Theatre Reform’ and the project On Axis as constructive response
Socio-theatrical experiments
Post-democracy, post-dramatics – and its discontents
Motion V At War
13 Beyond the Boundary of the Agora: The Hilltop Performance at the Western Front, 1915
14 Dismantling Road Blocks: Non-Violent Resistance of the Palestinian-Israeli Group ‘Combatants for Peace’
Through direct action: The Shuffa performance
Site-specific invisible theatre and the vision of a utopian space
Who is in charge? Unidentified power in a blocked area
Utopia displaced: An experience outside Palestine or Israel
Finding new territories to exchange identities: The example of a football game
15 Theatre as Metaphor: Isôko Rwanda’s Trilogy of Time
Out of the past: The Monument
The context
Material and performance realities
Rwandan audiences
Into the present: Littoral
Motion VI Contemporary Rituals: Challenges and Changes
16 At the Site of the Void: Inaesthetics of Performance in the Bicol Dotoc
The Bicol dotoc
Inaesthetics in the dotoc
Acknowledgement
17 New Technologies in Korean Shamanism: Cultural Innovation and Preservation of Tradition
New technologies in the Shamanic artefact market
New media changes musok knowledge dissemination
Documentation and evaluation of a kut ritual
Musok as an emblem of the ‘Korean Spirit’
Conclusion
18 Performing Jewish Prayer on Stage: From Rituality to Theatricality and Back
Performing prayer: Ma’amarot
Dancing prayer: Highway No. 1
Victoria Hanna: ‘Secular’ prayer?
Conclusion: Back to rituality
Motion VII Applied Performance Studies: Therapy, Activism and Education
19 Audacity and Insane Courage: Dream Doctors’ Secret Remedies
A brief history of medical clowning
The occupational hazards of clowning
Defying authority
Provocative therapy
Death
20 Performing the World: The Performance Turn in Social Activism
Political, experimental and educational theatre
Performative psychology
Our performance activism on the ground
A brief history of PTW
Performance activism around the world
21 Social Performance Studies: A New PS School with Chinese Characteristics
The advent of SPS
Theories and examples
Some practical projects
Negotiations between discipline and freedom
Motion VIII Performance Studies and Life Sciences
22 What Is Performance Anyway? A Cognitive Approach
Performance: English, idiomatic, indefinable?
Bauman’s definition and its merits
Performance and consciousness studies
Recognition
Memory
The principle of the Nibelung
Degeneracy
Selection and instruction
The definition of performance
The levels of instruction/selection
Feedback and re-entry
Two remarks
A twice-performed performance
Dramatic performance
23 The Mirror Game: A Natural Science Study of Togetherness
Prologue: A meeting point
Applying a natural science approach to the study of performance
Togetherness and the mirror game
The experimental setting
The experimental results
Regarding the reductionist nature of our approach
Epilogue: A performance
24 Performing Science
Peer groups of scientists create a space for culture-changing discussion
The scientific conversation and improvisation theatre
Scientific articles and The Art of Dramatic Writing
Science articles and the morphology of the Russian wonder tale
Dramatic metaphors, robust mathematical models and limitations on scientific understanding
Conclusions
Notes
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
About the Contributors
Index
Copyright
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