Learning to Perform: An Introduction - Softcover

Simpson Stern, Carol; Henderson, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810126672 ISBN 13: 9780810126671

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2010

Synopsis

In Learning to Perform Carol Simpson Stern and Bruce Henderson enliven the dialogue between theory and practice for actors and teachers alike. Beginning with an overview of the study of literary and cultural texts through performance, Stern and Henderson then translate literary and performance theory into concrete classroom experience. Learning to Perform presents a dynamic performance methodology that offers the tools students need to develop and refine performance skills, analyze texts, and think and reflect critically on performed texts. By addressing an expanded sense of text that includes cultural as well as literary artifacts, the authors bridge the gap between oral interpretation and the more inclusive field of performance studies that overarches it.

About this title

About the Author:

Carol Simpson Stern is a professor of performance studies at Northwestern University, where she served as dean of the graduate school from 1993 to 1998 and developed and directed the Integrated Arts Program from 1986 to 2003. She is coauthor (with Bruce Henderson) of Performance Texts and Contexts and coauthor (with C. Jay Fox and Robert S. Means) of Arthur Symons, Critic Among Critics: An Annotated Bibliography
Bruce Henderson is a professor of speech communication at Ithaca College. He is coauthor (with Carol Simpson Stern) of Performance: Texts and Contexts and coeditor (with Noam Ostrander) of Understanding Disability Studies and Performance Studies. He has served as editor of Text and Performance Quarterly and as an officer the National Communication Association and of the Society for Disability Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0810126672
• ISBN 13: 9780810126671
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576