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Richard Schechner

Asian Theatre Journal, 2013
As one of the founders of the discipline of performance studies, Richard Schechner has been instrumental in the development of new paradigms for experiencing and theorizing theatre in Asia. The impact of his scholarship, teaching, mentorship, theatrical practice, and editorship of TDR: The Drama Review is significant worldwide.
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A Reply to Richard Schechner

Asian Theatre Journal, 1984
If my article "A Collision of Cultures: Some Western Interpretations of the Indian Theatre" (Bharucha 1984) were as "reductive, incomplete, and inaccurate" as Schechner claims, I fail to see why he should respond to it with so much passion and rancor. A few lines would have been sufficient to dismiss the apparent ignorance of my piece. On re-reading my
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An Interview with Richard Schechner

2006
Richard Schechner is editor of TDR: The Drama Review: The Journal of Performance Studies and Professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of Arts, New York University. His publications include Performance Theory (1988), The Future of Ritual: Writings on Culture and Performance (1993) and Performance Studies: An Introduction (2002, 2nd edition ...
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Richard Schechner and Performance Studies in China

2011
As a global phenomenon, performance studies is constantly evolving, and from the very beginning of its emergence as a discipline, it has embraced an intercultural sensibility. Conceptually, it does not belong to any individual nation or culture, and one of its strengths is that different nations and different cultures have interpreted performance ...
Yu Jiancun, Peng Yongwen
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Fanning the Flames: Richard Schechner’s TDR

2011
As a boy growing up in Newark, New Jersey, in the 1930s and 1940s, Richard Schechner found he had a thing for fire. He talks about imagining houses going up in flames (most likely, he says, sparked by news of the War) and standing in the basement of his home, staring into the oil-burner furnace, lost in the fantasy that the whole world – except him ...
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Richard Schechner : da Restoration ai Performance Studies : un?indagine preliminare

Comunicazioni sociali : 1, 2016, 2016
Within the promotion of a culture of liveness hallmarked by the cross-fertilisation of languages, techniques and methods, this paper analyses a phenomenon, as yet little explored in Italy, that characterises late-20th-century theatre research: Performance Studies. In looking to understand their genealogical path, starting from the writings and theories
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6 axioms for environmental theatre: axiom three: Richard Schechner

2012
Environment can be understood in two different ways. First, there is what one can do with and in a space; secondly, there is the acceptance of a given space. In the first case, one creates an environment by transforming a space; in the second case, one negotiates with an environment, engaging in a scenic dialogue with a space.
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An interview with Richard Schechner on the 50th anniversary of Dionysus in 69

Theatre and Performance Design, 2018
On 6 June 1968, Dionysus in 69, an adaptation of Euripides’ The Bacchae, opened in a small converted factory – renamed the Performing Garage – on Wooster Street in lower Manhattan, in a neighbourho...
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Lila or Mela? Richard Schechner’s “Play” of the Ramlila of Ramnagar

2018
As one of the intercultural theater pioneers, Schechner’s numerous trips to India have enriched his performance theory and practice tremendously. Of all the various topics on Indian performing arts, such as the Natyasastra (the ancient Sanskrit treatise on performance), Indian rituals, dance theaters, and rasaesthetics, Schechner has written ...
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In Defense of the String Quartet: An Open Letter to Richard Schechner

2011
First of all, may I say what a genuine honor and a privilege it is to have been asked to contribute to this volume – initially commissioned to celebrate your 75th birthday (Happy Birthday!) – and thus to this latest reconsideration of the performance studies paradigm that you were so instrumental in establishing.
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