The Rise of Performance Studies

1. Introduction: The Rise of Performance Studies
James Harding, Cindy Rosenthal

Part 1. Performance/Theatre/Studies

2. Performance Studies and the Enhancement of Theatre Studies
Marvin Carlson

3. In Defense of the String Quartet: An Open Letter to Richard Schechner
Stephen Bottoms

4. Experimenting with an Unfinished Discipline: Richard Schechner, the Avant-Garde and Performance Studies
James M Harding, Cindy Rosenthal

Part 2. Performance Studies Genealogies

5. Wayang Studies?
Paul Rae

6. Today I Am a Field: Performance Studies Comes of Age
Henry Bial

7. Richard Schechner and Performance Studies in China
Yu Jiancun, Peng Yongwen

8. Australian Performance Studies Marginally Off Centre
Peter Eckersall

Part 3. Working with Richard

9. Reactuals: From Personal to Critical and Back
Rebecca Schneider

10. Fanning the Flames: Richard Schechner’s TDR
Mariellen R Sandford

11. Liminal Richard: Approaches to Performance Studies
John Emigh

12. The Broadest Spectrum of Pluralities: Performance Studies, Theatre Practices, Theatre Histories, and Beyond
Phillip Zarrilli

Part 4. Practicing Performance: Schechner among the Performers

13. Richard Schechner
Judith Malina

14. Joan MacIntosh: Interview, July 2008
Cindy Rosenthal

15. Elizabeth LeCompte: Interview, June 2008
Cindy Rosenthal

16. For Richard
Anna Deavere Smith

17. Performing Against the Backdrop of the War on Terror
Guillermo Gómez-Peña

18. Trauma as Durational Performance
Diana Taylor

19. Medical Clowning and Performance Theory
Atay Citron

20. Restored Restored Behavior or the Emperor of California Roll: 1989–90 Japanese Imperial Rites of Funeral and Enthronement
Takahashi Yuichiro

21. “Deep Play, Dark Play”: Framing the Limit(less)
Joseph Roach

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Theatre History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Literature, general, Performing Arts