The performance studies pendulum
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This essay argues that performance studies in communication (PSC) is approaching a point of “nowhereness.” It examines the implications of the 1990s framing of performance studies as an “antidiscipline,” particularly insofar as antidisciplinarity disrupts the concept of disciplinary methodologies such as aesthetic performance. It offers an exemplar case that demonstrates how one familiar, established, perhaps keystone performance studies theory/method/practice – dialogic performance has all but disappeared in PSC research. Finally, it offers a corrective but ultimately invitational call to bolster the communities of practice in PSC, especially in terms of performance-methodological and aesthetic research.
Source: Text and Performance Quarterly
Authors: Jake Simmons, Travis Brisini
Institutions: Missouri State University, Louisiana State University
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4402488738