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The home of both is the Performing Garage in New York's SoHo district, a building acquired by Schechner in 1968. That year Schechner signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. [3] In 1992, Schechner founded East Coast Artists with whom he continues to work.
Performance studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that teaches the development of performance skills and uses performance as a lens and a tool to study the world. . The term performance is broad, and can include artistic and aesthetic performances like concerts, theatrical events, and performance art; sporting events; social, political and religious events like rituals, ceremonies ...
The Performance Group (TPG) was an experimental theater troupe that Richard Schechner founded in 1967 in New York City. TPG's home base was the Performing Garage in the SoHo district of Lower Manhattan. After 1975, tensions led to Schechner's resignation in 1980.
Rehearsal and performance took place in a "performing garage" which was rather a small metal stamping factory, but Schechner found "garage a much jazzier title". According to Schechner the group rehearsed for 5 months at least 6 days a week on average 6 hours a day including vocal training and psychophysical interactions (e.g. attack therapy ...
Performativity is the concept that language can function as a form of social action and have the effect of change. [1] The concept has multiple applications in diverse fields such as anthropology, social and cultural geography, economics, gender studies (social construction of gender), law, linguistics, performance studies, history, management studies and philosophy.
While many theorists argue that all social interaction may be seen from a dramaturgical perspective, meaning all everyday social interaction becomes performance in some sense, [9] Digital Live Art theorists often deliberately align their work with Richard Schechner, [10] narrowing their analysis to cover more stabilized ‘established’ forms ...
Early theories acknowledge that performance and text are both embedded in a system of rules and that the effects they can produce depend on convention and recurrence. In this sense, text is an instance of 'restored behaviour', a term introduced by Richard Schechner that sees performance as a repeatable ritual. [4]
Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols, 1968/1976; Richard Wollheim, Art and Its Objects, 1968; Rudolf Arnheim, Visual Thinking, 1969; Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, 1970; Richard Schechner, Essays on Performance Theory, 1976/2004; Arthur Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art, 1981