An organized treatment of performance studies theory, practice and pedagogy. This collection of 18 essays by scholars and educators seeks to reflect 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.

About the Author
Nathan Stucky is an associate professor and the chair of the Department of Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He has edited Theatre Annual: A Journal of Performance Studies and has served as the chair of the Performance Studies Division of the National Communication Association and on the executive board of Performance Studies International. Cynthia Wimmer has taught courses in playwriting and performance theory at the University of Maryland at College Park. She is a founding member of the Performance Studies Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and is the former chair of the American Drama Panel of NEMLA.

Reviews
recounts a wide variety of teaching methods, experiences, theories, and approaches. All of it fits under the big performance studies tent.... An elusive, playful, embodied, multifaceted, protean operation: Teaching performance studies is very much a creative art. - Richard Schechner, from the Foreword



Book Information
ISBN 9780809324668
Author Nathan Stucky
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
Publisher Southern Illinois University Press
Weight(grams) 418g