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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">The field of performance studies involves much more than actors on a stage. It is based on the idea that nearly everything we do is related to performing. We’ve called this book
<i>The Web of Performance</i> because, like a spider’s web, performance connects at multiple points to everything around it. Once you begin to understand how it all works—<i>how</i> performance is connected to all aspects of our lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">For Students<br>
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">If you love being involved in theatre and you’re also searching for opportunities to make a positive difference in your community, this workbook was written for you. You may think that theatre and all the
other things you are passionate about represent different directions in your life, but they don’t have to be separate. They can converge in performance studies, a category of theatre based on the idea that nearly everything we do is related to performing.
Once you begin to understand how performance is connected to all aspects of our lives, you can use that knowledge to invent, create, and build performance based activities that you can integrate into all the other interests that define who you are and what
you want to do in your life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">For Educators</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""><br>
This workbook has been designed and written for students in high school and university who may be interested in how performance works. The chapters cover broad topics drawn from the field of performance studies, an academic field developed out of theatre studies,
anthropology, sociology and cultural studies in the 1980s and 1990s. Web of Performance covers key topics in performance studies: Performance as a form of Play, Ritual, Healing, Education, Power, Identity and Everyday Life. Each of these topics works like
a web, inviting students to explore in multiple directions, across many threads.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Subjects:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> performance studies, theatre, high school, university, curriculum planning, performing arts<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Ebook FREE to download:
<a href="https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/press/books/titles/web-of-performance/">
https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/press/books/titles/web-of-performance/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">We are grateful to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the University of Victoria Office of Research Services and E-Publishing Program for their support in the creation
of this curriculum. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Dr. Monica Prendergast<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Associate Professor, Drama/Theatre Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Department of Curriculum and Instruction<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Faculty of Education<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">University of Victoria, BC, Canada<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Reviews Editor, Art/Research International<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Email: <a href="mailto:mprender@uvic.ca"><span style="color:#0000E9">mprender@uvic.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Phone: 250-472-4045<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Web:<a href="http://www.uvic.ca/education/curriculum/faculty-staff/faculty/about/experts/prendergast/index.php"><span style="color:#0000E9">http://www.uvic.ca/education/curriculum/faculty-staff/faculty/about/experts/prendergast/index.php</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman"">Focus Magazine:
<a href="http://www.focusonvictoria.ca"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.focusonvictoria.ca</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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