Theories of Performance invites students to explore the
possibilities of performance for creating, knowing, and staking
claims to the world. Each chapter surveys, explains, and
illustrates classic, modern, and postmodern theories that answer
the questions, "What is performance?" "Why do people perform?" and
"How does performance constitute our social and political worlds?"
The chapters feature performance as the entry point for
understanding texts, drama, culture, social roles, identity,
resistance, and technologies. Written specifically for the
undergraduate classroom, performance theories are explained in ways
accessible to students, relevant to their lives, and richly
illustrated with examples that encourage students to think more, to
think harder, and to think differently about performances around
them. The text incorporates a variety of pedagogical strategies to
encourage students to demonstrate, apply, extend, and share their
discoveries about theory. Each chapter provides student-centered
exercises, activities, and prompts. From Aristotelian tragedy to
on-line avatars, Dramatism to performativity, cultural performance
to public protest, canon wars to virtual reality, Theories of
Performance brings classic, modern, and postmodern theories to life
in the classroom. "Elizabeth Bell has done a prodigious, expert,
and original synthesis of the new work in performance studies here,
by grounding performance in communication theory and practice.
Students reading this book will more readily see how and why
performance is a way of communicating, empowering them to
critically participate in producing and consuming the myriad texts
and performances in which we are immersed. The 'Act Out' and other
boxes present effective and innovative learning activities; they
move performance from a display of competence to participation in
bodily knowing. In short, Theories of Performance is an exceptional
accomplishment. " - Kristin M. Langellier, University of Maine
"Theories of Performance is the BEST synthesis of performance
studies issues, concepts, and methodologies that yet exists. This
textbook is invaluable and will make performance studies classrooms
'smarter' and more sophisticated both in terms of content and in
practice. What a treat it will be to offer students a text that
takes the best thoughts, practices, and examples and presents it to
them in an engaging, surprising, and provocative format!" - Keith
Pounds, Hofstra University
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