文档介绍：ACTING (RE)CONSIDERED
WORLDS OF PERFORMANCE
What is a ‘performance’? Where does it take place? Who are the participants? What is
being enacted? Does it make a difference if the performance is embodied by live per-
formers or represented on film, video, or digital media? How does the performance inter-
act with individuals, societies, and cultures? Not so long ago, many of these questions
were settled. But today, orthodox answers are misleading, limiting, and unsatisfactory.
‘Performance’ as a practice and as a theoretical category has expanded exponentially. It
prises a panoply of genres, styles, events, and actions ranging from play, sports
and popular entertainments, to theatre, dance and music, secular and religious rituals,
the performances of everyday life, intercultural experiments, and more. And beyond
performance proper is the even more dynamically unsettled category of the performative.
For nearly 50 years, The Drama Review (TDR), the journal of performance studies, has
been at the cutting edge of exploring performance. In TDR, artists and scholars introduce
and debate new ideas; historical documents are published; new performance theories
expounded. The Worlds of Performance Series is designed to mine the extraordinary
resources and diversity of TDR’s decades of excellence.
Each Worlds of Performance book is plete anthology, arranged around a specific
theme or topic. Each volume contains hard-to-get seminal essays, artists’ notes, interviews,
creative texts, and photographs. New materials and careful introductions insure that each
book is up to date. Every Worlds of Performance editor is a leader in the field of perform-
ance studies. Each Worlds of Performance book is an excellent basic resource for scholars,
textbook for students, and an exciting eye-opener for the general reader.
Richard Schechner
Editor TDR
Series Editor
OTHER TITLES IN THE SERIES
Happenings and Other Acts edited by Mariellen R. Sandford
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