The Rise of Performance Studies

List of Illustrations Series Preface Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction The Rise of Performance Studies: An Introduction; J.Harding  & C.Rosenthal PART I: PERFORMANCE/THEATRE/STUDIES Performance Studies and the Enhancement of Theatre Studies; M.Carlson In Defence of the String Quartet: An Open Letter to Richard Schechner ; S.Bottoms Experimenting with an Unfinished Discipline: Richard Schechner, the Avant-Garde and Performance Studies;  J.Harding &  C.Rosenthal PART II: PERFORMANCE STUDIES GENEALOGIES Wayang Studies?; P.Rae Today I am a Field: Performance Studies Comes of Age ; H.Bial Richard Schechner and Performance Studies in China; P.Yongwen & Y.Jiancun Australian Performance Studies Marginally Off Centre; P.Eckersall PART III: WORKING WITH RICHARD Reactuals: From Personal to Critical and Back; R.Schneider Fanning the Flames: Richard Schechner's TDR; M.Sandford Liminal Richard: Approaches to Performance Studies; J.Emigh The Broadest Spectrum of Pluralities: Performance Studies, Theatre Practices, Theatre Histories, and Beyond; P.Zarrilli PART IV: PRACTICING PERFORMANCE: SCHECHNER AMONG THE PERFORMERS. Richard Schechner; J.Malina Interview; J.MacIntosh Interview; E.LeCompte For Richard; A.D.Smith Performing Against the Backdrop of the War on Terror; G.Gomez-Pena PART V: ENGAGING DIALOGUE: SCHECHNER AS CRITICAL INTERLOCUTOR Trauma as Durational Performance; D.Taylor Medical Clowning and Performance Theory; A.Citron Restored Restored Behavior or the Emperor of California Roll: 1989-90 Japanese Imperial Rites of Funeral and Enthronement; T.Yuichiro 'Deep Play, Dark Play': Framing the Limit(less); J.Roach Index