Wednesday, December 7, 2011
William Forsythe videos
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Performativity and Race
Dido's Lament
Al Jolson as EP Christy
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Friday, September 23, 2011
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Just saw this published on NYT.com, about Sleep No More
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/arts/dance/sleep-no-more-is-theater-embedded-with-dancers.html?_r=1&hpw
Presenters
Sivan: 5 October, Winnicott
Jordan: 5 October, Certeau
Stephanie: 5 October, Bateson
Drew: 12 October, Diamond
Maria: 12 October, Phelan
Brooke: 19 October, Taussig
Ben: 26 October, Joseph
Erin: 16 November, Butler
Kayla: 14 December, McKenzie/Reinelt
Jordan: 5 October, Certeau
Stephanie: 5 October, Bateson
Drew: 12 October, Diamond
Maria: 12 October, Phelan
Brooke: 19 October, Taussig
Ben: 26 October, Joseph
Erin: 16 November, Butler
Kayla: 14 December, McKenzie/Reinelt
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Syllabus
Seminar in Theatre Theory: Introduction to Performance Studies
Professor Edward D. Miller
http://introductiontoperformancestudies.blogspot.com
This course charts the development of performance studies and discerns the field's disciplinary influences and defining principles. We read many of the texts that are considered foundational, including the work of Richard Schechner, Joseph Roach, Erving Goffman, J.L. Austin, Judith Butler, among others. Particular attention is paid to the relevance of performance theory to theatre and dance studies as well as to the methodologies deployed by performance researchers such as fieldwork, orature, movement analysis, and documentation and interpretation of live events. Additionally the course looks at the impact of theoreticians who explore concepts of performativity and how this affects the study of constructions of gender, race, and national identity. This emphasis allows us to deliberate upon the usefulness of an emphasis on performance cross-culturally and within minoritarian discourses. The course finishes by looking at the role of dance within performance studies and assesses recent critiques of the discipline from both theatre and performance scholars. Assignments include an in-class presentation of a week’s reading, a paper proposal, and a fifteen-page research paper.
Many of the course’s readings come from the following edited volumes: Of the Presence of the Body: Essays on Dance and Performance Theory, edited by André Lepecki (2004); Critical Theory and Performance, edited by Janelle Reinelt and Joseph Roach (2010); Worlding Dance, edited by Susan Leigh Foster (2011); Performance and Performativity, edited by Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1995); and The Performance Studies Reader, edited by Henry Bial (2004). All readings are available through the library’s e-reserve site.
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31 August Introduction
In-class Reading:
Richard Schechner (et al.) “What is Performance Studies?” (excerpts) in Performance Studies: An Introduction (2007)
Richard Schechner (et al.) “What is Performance Studies?” (excerpts) in Performance Studies: An Introduction (2007)
7 September Defining Performance Studies
Reading:
Richard Schechner, “Performance Studies: The Broad Spectrum Approach” (2006) in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Dwight Conquergood, “Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o, “Notes Toward a Performance Theory of Orature” in Performance Theory 12, 3 (2007).
Available at http://www.ohio.edu/people/hartleyg/ref/Ngugi_Orature.html
Shannon Jackson, “Professing Performances: Disciplinary Geneologies in The Performance Reader Studies (2004)
Richard Schechner, “Performance Studies: The Broad Spectrum Approach” (2006) in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Dwight Conquergood, “Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong'o, “Notes Toward a Performance Theory of Orature” in Performance Theory 12, 3 (2007).
Available at http://www.ohio.edu/people/hartleyg/ref/Ngugi_Orature.html
Shannon Jackson, “Professing Performances: Disciplinary Geneologies in The Performance Reader Studies (2004)
14 September Defining Performance
Reading:
Clifford Geertz, "Blurred Genres: The Reconfiguration of Social Thought" in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Erving Goffman, “Belief in the Part One is Playing” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Marvin Carlson, “What is Performance?” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)Peggy Phelan, “The Ontology of Performance” in Unmarked (1993)
Clifford Geertz, "Blurred Genres: The Reconfiguration of Social Thought" in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Erving Goffman, “Belief in the Part One is Playing” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Marvin Carlson, “What is Performance?” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)Peggy Phelan, “The Ontology of Performance” in Unmarked (1993)
21 September Performance and Ethnography
Reading:
B. Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, “Objects of Ethnography” in Destination Culture (1998)
Joann Kealiinohomoku, “An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance” in Moving History/Dancing Cultures (2001)
Diana Taylor, “Scenarios of Discovery: Reflections of Performance and Ethnography” in The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (2003)
B. Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, “Objects of Ethnography” in Destination Culture (1998)
Joann Kealiinohomoku, “An Anthropologist Looks at Ballet as a Form of Ethnic Dance” in Moving History/Dancing Cultures (2001)
Diana Taylor, “Scenarios of Discovery: Reflections of Performance and Ethnography” in The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (2003)
28 September NO CLASS
5 October Performance and Play
Reading:
D.W. Winnicott, "Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena" in Playing and Reality (1971)
Gregory Bateson, “A Theory of Play and Fantasy” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City” in The Practice of Everyday Life (2002)
Roger Caillois, “The Classification of Games” in Man, Play, and Games (2001)
Gregory Bateson, “A Theory of Play and Fantasy” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Michel de Certeau, “Walking in the City” in The Practice of Everyday Life (2002)
Roger Caillois, “The Classification of Games” in Man, Play, and Games (2001)
12 October Performance and Psychoanalysis
Reading:
Elin Diamond, “The Violence of We: Politicizing Identification” in Critical Theory and Performance (2010)
Peggy Phelan, “Immobile Legs, Stalled Words: Psychoanalysis and Moving Deaths” in Critical Theory and Performance (2010)
José Esteban Muñoz, “Performing Disidentifications” in Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999)
Homi Bhabha, “Of Mimicry and Man” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Elin Diamond, “The Violence of We: Politicizing Identification” in Critical Theory and Performance (2010)
Peggy Phelan, “Immobile Legs, Stalled Words: Psychoanalysis and Moving Deaths” in Critical Theory and Performance (2010)
José Esteban Muñoz, “Performing Disidentifications” in Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999)
Homi Bhabha, “Of Mimicry and Man” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
19 October Performance of the Nation-State
Reading:
Clifford Geertz, “Political Statement: Spectacle and Ceremony” in Negara: The Theatre State in 19th Century Bali (1990)
Guy DeBord, “Unity and Division Within Appearance” in Society of the Spectacle (2000)
Mick Taussig, “The Spirit Queen” in The Magic of the State (1997)
Jay Fleigelman, “The Oratorical Ideal, Racial Politics, and the Making of Americans” in Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance (1993)
Reading:
Clifford Geertz, “Political Statement: Spectacle and Ceremony” in Negara: The Theatre State in 19th Century Bali (1990)
Guy DeBord, “Unity and Division Within Appearance” in Society of the Spectacle (2000)
Mick Taussig, “The Spirit Queen” in The Magic of the State (1997)
Jay Fleigelman, “The Oratorical Ideal, Racial Politics, and the Making of Americans” in Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language, and the Culture of Performance (1993)
PAPER PROPOSAL DUE
26 October Performance Studies and Region/History
Reading:
Diana Taylor, “Acts of Transfer” in The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (2003)
Ananya Chatterjea, “Red-Stained Feet: Probing the Ground on which Women Dance in Contemporary Bengal” in Worlding Dance (2011)
May Joseph, “Nomadic Citizenship” in Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship (1999)
Diana Taylor, “Acts of Transfer” in The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas (2003)
Ananya Chatterjea, “Red-Stained Feet: Probing the Ground on which Women Dance in Contemporary Bengal” in Worlding Dance (2011)
May Joseph, “Nomadic Citizenship” in Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship (1999)
2 November Performativity and Speech Act Theory
Reading:
J.L. Austin, “How to Do Things with Words: Lecture II” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Jacques Derrida, “Signature, Event, Context” in Margins of Philosophy (1982)
Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Introduction” in Performativity and Performance (1995)
Judith Butler, “Burning Acts—Injurious Speech” in Performativity and Performance (1995)
Reading:
J.L. Austin, “How to Do Things with Words: Lecture II” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Jacques Derrida, “Signature, Event, Context” in Margins of Philosophy (1982)
Andrew Parker and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Introduction” in Performativity and Performance (1995)
Judith Butler, “Burning Acts—Injurious Speech” in Performativity and Performance (1995)
9 November Performativity and Identity: Race
Reading:
Thomas DeFrantz, “The Black Beat Made Visible” in Of the Presence of the Body
Tavia Nyong’o, “Minstrel Trouble” in The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (2009)
Joseph Roach, “Culture and Performance in the Circum-Atlantic World” in Performativity and Performance (2005)
Reading:
Thomas DeFrantz, “The Black Beat Made Visible” in Of the Presence of the Body
Tavia Nyong’o, “Minstrel Trouble” in The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (2009)
Joseph Roach, “Culture and Performance in the Circum-Atlantic World” in Performativity and Performance (2005)
16 November Performativity and Identity: Gender
Reading:
Jill Dolan, “Practicing Cultural Discruptions: Gay and Lesbian Representation and Sexuality” in Critical Theory and Performance (2010)
Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Sue-Ellen Case, “Dracula’s Daughters: In-Corporating Avatars in Cyberspace” in Critical Theory and Performance (2010)
Jill Dolan, “Practicing Cultural Discruptions: Gay and Lesbian Representation and Sexuality” in Critical Theory and Performance (2010)
Judith Butler, “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution” in The Performance Studies Reader (2004)
Sue-Ellen Case, “Dracula’s Daughters: In-Corporating Avatars in Cyberspace” in Critical Theory and Performance (2010)
30 November Bodies, Movement, Inscription
Reading:
Andre Lepecki, “Inscripting Dance” in Of the Presence of the Body (2004)
Mark Franko, “Given Movement: Dance and the Event” in Of the Presence of the Body” (2004)
Randy Martin, “Dance and its Others: Theory, State, Nation, and Socialism” in Of the Presence of the Body (2004)
Andre Lepecki, “Inscripting Dance” in Of the Presence of the Body (2004)
Mark Franko, “Given Movement: Dance and the Event” in Of the Presence of the Body” (2004)
Randy Martin, “Dance and its Others: Theory, State, Nation, and Socialism” in Of the Presence of the Body (2004)
7 December Choreographers and Choreography
Reading:
Susan Leigh Foster, “Choreographies and Choreographers” in Worlding Dance (2009)
Mark Franko, “Splintered Encounters: The Critical Reception to William Forsythe in the United States, 1979-1989” in William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography (2011)
Susan Leigh Foster, “Choreographies and Choreographers” in Worlding Dance (2009)
Mark Franko, “Splintered Encounters: The Critical Reception to William Forsythe in the United States, 1979-1989” in William Forsythe and the Practice of Choreography (2011)
14 December Critiques of Performance Studies
Reading:
Rustom Bharucha, “Collisions of Culture” in Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture (1993)
Stephen Bottoms, “The Efficacy/Effeminacy Braid: Unpicking the Performance Studies/Theatre Studies Dichotomy” in Theatre Topics 13,2 (2003)
Jon McKenzie, “Is Performance Studies Imperialist?” TDR 50, 4 (2006)
Janelle Reinelt, “Is Performance Studies Imperialist? Part 2” TDR 51, 3 (2007)
Reading:
Rustom Bharucha, “Collisions of Culture” in Theatre and the World: Performance and the Politics of Culture (1993)
Stephen Bottoms, “The Efficacy/Effeminacy Braid: Unpicking the Performance Studies/Theatre Studies Dichotomy” in Theatre Topics 13,2 (2003)
Jon McKenzie, “Is Performance Studies Imperialist?” TDR 50, 4 (2006)
Janelle Reinelt, “Is Performance Studies Imperialist? Part 2” TDR 51, 3 (2007)
FINAL PAPER DUE FRIDAY DECEMBER 21—HARD COPY IN MAILBOX
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