Le paradigme des Performance Studies

 

The performance studies paradigm came to the fore in the mid-'50s. Gregory Bateson's "A Theory of Play and Fantasy" was published in 1955, the same year as J.L. Austin's Harvard lectures on the "performative" (How to Do Things With Words). Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life was published in 1959; Albert B. Lord's The Singer of Tales in 1960; and Roger Caillois' Man, Play, and Games in 1961 [Roger Caillois, Les Jeux et les hommes, Paris, Gallimard, 1958]. My "Approaches to Theory/Criticism" was published in 1966; Dell Hymes'"Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Setting" in 1967. Victor Turner's The Ritual Process came out in 1969, his Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors in 1974. Milton Singer's When a Great Tradition Modernizes appeared in 1972. Folklore: Performance and Communication (editors, Dan Ben-Amos and Kenneth Goldstein) was published in 1974 as was Barbara Myerhoff's The Peyote Hunt. Secular Ritual (edited by Myerhoff and Sally Moore) appeared in 1977, the same year as Richard Bauman's Verbal Art asPerformance. Since the mid-'7os there has been an immense body of performance studies work. It is not possible to name even a fraction of the scholars—some well known, some just emerging—currently working the field.

schechner_broadSpectrum2.pdf — Richard Schechner, PAJ Distorts the Broad Spectrum, TDR (1988-), Vol. 33, No. 2 (Summer, 1989), pp. 4–9.