The speaker you are watching is Richard Schechner. Schechner is a theater director, performance theorist and university professor known for being one of the founders of the academic discipline of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Schechner combines his work in anthropology with innovative approaches to performance of all kinds including ritual, drama, environmental theater, political rallies, dance, music, etc. in order to consider how performance can be understood not just as an object of study, but also as an active intellectual-artistic practice (2009-2013 Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics).
The speaker you are watching is Richard Schechner. Schechner is a professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and editor of TDR: The Drama Review. As one of the founders of the discipline of performance studies, Richard Schechner has been instrumental in the development of new paradigms for experiencing and theorizing theatre in Asia. The impact of his scholarship, teaching, mentorship, theatrical practice, and editorship of TDR: The Drama Review is significant worldwide. Many of his major theoretical constructs have grown out of his encounters in and with Asia, particularly India and China (Gillit, 2013).
The speaker you are watching is Richard Schechner. Schechner is a theater director, performance theorist and university professor known for being one of the founders of the academic discipline of Performance Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. Schechner combines his work in anthropology with innovative approaches to performance of all kinds including ritual, drama, environmental theater, political rallies, dance, music, etc. in order to consider how performance can be understood not just as an object of study, but also as an active intellectual-artistic practice (2009-2013 Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics).
The speaker you are watching is Richard Schechner. Schechner is a professor of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, and editor of TDR: The Drama Review. As one of the founders of the discipline of performance studies, Richard Schechner has been instrumental in the development of new paradigms for experiencing and theorizing theatre in Asia. The impact of his scholarship, teaching, mentorship, theatrical practice, and editorship of TDR: The Drama Review is significant worldwide. Many of his major theoretical constructs have grown out of his encounters in and with Asia, particularly India and China (Gillit, 2013).
Any relation to the Schechner clan in Bavaria?