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Conversations & Presentations Richard Schechner Day

30 November 2015

 

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The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in New York City presented Richard Schechner Day livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 30 November. 

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Join us for an extraordinary day at the Segal Center celebrating the work of Richard Schechner, who recently celebrated his 81st birthday. The formation of performance studies by Schechner and his colleagues at NYU created new ways to understand human behavior and the performing arts. The day will highlight Schechner as a director, scholar, trainer, and performance anthropologist. This rare presentation highlights a day-long celebration of Schechner’s work as a theatre director, teacher, theorist, writer, editor, and founder of the Performance Group and East Coast Artists. Schechner is currently a University Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and editor of TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies. His many influential books include Performance Studies—An Introduction; Environmental Theater; Between Theater and Anthropology; Performance Theory, and the recent Performed Imaginaries (2015). Schechner is also the editor of the Enactments Series, a series published in India by Seagull Books, distributed by University of Chicago Press.

The evening will feature Schechner reading selections from his poetry and fiction, as well as entries from five decades worth of notebooks. The evening event is presented in collaboration with Karen Sander, Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

LIVESTREAM SCHEDULE

9:00 a.m. EST
Ramlila Of Ramnagar
Documenting the staging of the Hindu epic
With Rishika Mehrishi + Richard Schechner

10:00 a.m. EST
The Director
A presentation by Richard Schechner, followed by a discussion with Marvin Carlson
Screenings and slides (presented throughout the day):

Dionysus in 69 (1968)
Tooth of Crime (1973)
Mother Courage (1976, slides)
Cherry Orchard (1983, India, slides)
Oresteia (1995, Taiwan)
Three Sisters (1997)
Hamlet (2007, China)
Swimming to Spalding (2009)
Imagining O (2014)

 

1:00 p.m. EST
The Performance Trainer (Rasaboxes)
A presentation by Richard Schechner in discussion with Paula Murray Cole

2:00 p.m. EST
The Performance Anthropologist
A presentation by Richard Schechner in discussion with Michael Taussig

3:00 p.m. EST
The Editor
A presentation by Richard Schechner in discussion with Mariellen Sandford

3:30 p.m. EST
The Teacher
A presentation by Richard Schechner in discussion with William Worthen

4:00 p.m. EST
The Scholar: Performance Studies
A presentation by Richard Schechner in discussion with Joe Roach

 

6:30 p.m. EST
Schechner’s Notebooks, Fiction, And Poetry
Readings and a presentation by Richard Schechner from notebooks collected for over five decades, followed by a discussion with Frank Hentschker. Co-presented with Public Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

 

Richard Schechner, one of the founders of Performance Studies, is a performance theorist, theatre director, author, editor of TDR and the Enactments book series, University Professor, and Professor of Performance Studies. Schechner combines his work in performance theory with innovative approaches to the broad spectrum of performance including theatre, play, ritual, dance, music, popular entertainments, sports, politics, performance in everyday life, etc. in order to understand performative behavior not just as an object of study, but also as an active artistic-intellectual practice. He founded The Performance Group and East Coast Artists. His theatre productions include Dionysus in 69CommuneThe Tooth of CrimeMother Courage and Her ChildrenSeneca’s OedipusFaust/gastronome, Three SistersHamletThe OresteiaYokastaSSwimming to Spalding, and Imagining O. His books include Public Domain, Environmental TheaterPerformance TheoryThe Future of RitualBetween Theater and AnthropologyPerformance Studies: An Introduction, and Performed Imaginaries. As of 2015, his books have been translated into 17 languages. His theatre work has been seen in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. He has directed performance workshops and lectured on every continent except Antarctica. He has been awarded numerous fellowships including Guggenheim, NEH, ACLS, and fellowships at Dartmouth, Cornell, Yale, Princeton, and the Central School of Speech and Drama, London.

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Marvin Carlson is the Sidney E. Cohn Professor of Theatre, Comparative Literature, and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His research and teaching interests include dramatic theory and Western European theatre history and dramatic literature, especially of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. He has been awarded the ATHE Career Achievement Award, the George Jean Nathan Prize, the Barnard Hewitt Award, the George Freedley Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been a Walker-Ames Professor at the University of Washington, a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Indiana University, a Visiting Professor at the Freie Universitat of Berlin, and a Fellow of the American Theatre. In 2005 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Athens. His best-known book, Theories of the Theatre (Cornell University Press, 1984), has been translated into seven languages. His 2001 book, The Haunted Stage won the Callaway Prize. His newest book is Four Arab Hamlet Plays (Martin E. Segal Center Publications 2015).

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Paula Murray Cole is an associate professor of acting, voice, and movement in the Department of Theatre Arts at Ithaca College. Her professional work is centered on the development of rasaboxes, a suite of exercises devised by Richard Schechner. Based on a combination of performance theories and practices, as well as contemporary emotion science, rasaboxes trains emotional awareness and expressivity through the use of breath, body, voice, and sensation. Cole acted in Schechner’s productions of Three Sisters and Hamlet with East Coast Artists. She has taught rasaboxes performance workshops at Ithaca College, NYU, Brown, Cornell, UC Berkeley, UT at Knoxville, CWU, The Dell’ Arte International School of Physical Theatre, among others. Cole has presented rasaboxes at conferences in the US, Canada, Turkey, Singapore, China, Israel, and Poland. She co-authored The Actor As Athlete of the Emotions: The Rasaboxes Exercise with rasaboxes co-developer, Michele Minnick, published in Movement For Actors and contributed a sidebar article to the essay “Rasaesthetics,” by Richard Schechner. In 2009, Cole produced the first documentary video recording of Schechner teaching his intensive performance workshop, Crossing the Line: Inside Richard Schechner’s Performance Workshop. Over 100 hours of footage will become a digital archive so that scholars and practitioners may see Schechner’s exercises as he presented them in 2009. For more information, please visit www.rasaboxes.org

Joseph Roach

Joseph Roach, Sterling Professor of Theater at Yale, is a theatre historian and stage director.  His publications include The Player’s Passion (1985), Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance (1996), and It (2007). He is the editor of Changing the Subject: Marvin Carlson and Theater Studies (2009) and, with Clark Lunberry, The Very Thought of Herbert Blau (forthcoming).

Mariellen Sandford

Mariellen R. Sandford has collaborated with Richard Schechner as Associate Editor of TDR since 1985. As a freelance editor she has worked on numerous books in the field of performance studies. She is co-editor with T. Nikki Cesar of the TDR issue on new theatre ensembles in (mostly) New York, editor of Happenings and Other Acts, and contributed an essay to The Rise of Performance Studies, edited by Cindy Rosenthal and James Harding.

 Michael Taussig

Michael Taussig was ship’s doctor who switched to anthropology via Colombia, Sth America where he lived with people losing their land to sugar plantations, studied shamanism in the Upper Amazon, and went to write books on commodity fetishism, shamanism, the Nervously Nervous Nervous System, Mimesis and Alterity, Secrecy, Defacement, The Magic of the State, gold and cocaine, law in a lawless land, beauty and the beast; as well as creating two pieces of theatre; one on the sun in the age of meltdown, the other on the transformation of the sea.

William Worthen

William B. Worthen is Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts and Chair of the Department of Theatre at Barnard College, Columbia University, and Professor of Theatre and of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. He is the author of many books, most recently Drama: Between Poetry and Performance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) and Shakespeare Performance Studies (Cambridge, 2014), and of articles on an array of subjects in drama and performance studies. He is a past editor of Theatre Journal and of Modern Drama, and editor of the widely-used Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, in addition to several scholarly collections. Professor Worthen has held research fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and from the Freie Universität, Berlin, and is currently working on technicities of contemporary theatrical performance.

 

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