Dada

This introductory textbook in the emergent field of performance studies provides a lively and accessible overview of the full range of performance for undergraduates at all levels and beginning graduate students in performance studies, theatre, performing arts and cultural studies. It includes discussion of the performing arts and popular entertainments, rituals, play and games as well as the performances of everyday life.Supporting examples and ideas are drawn from the performing arts, anthropology, post-structuralism, ritual theory, ethology, philosophy and aesthetics. The text contains input from leading teachers and has been trialled with students.User-friendly, with a special text design, it also includes the following features: extracts from primary sources giving alternative voices and viewpoints; biographies of key thinkers; things to think about and things to do to stimulate fieldwork, classroom exercises and discussion and key reading lists for each chapter.