Teaching Performance Studies

Theater in the Americas

by Nathan Stucky (Editor), Richard Schechner (Foreword), Cynthia Wimmer (Editor)

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.

   

312 pages, Paperback

First published November 19, 2002