Russian Performances

Word, Object, Action

Julie Buckler, Julie Cassiday, Boris Wolfson, Julie Buckler, Julie Cassiday, Boris Wolfson

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780299318307
• eBook ISBN: 9780299318338
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Art & Politics
• Index: Literature

Throughout its modern history, Russia has seen a succession of highly performative social acts that play out prominently in the public sphere. This innovative volume brings the fields of performance studies and Russian studies into dialog for the first time and shows that performance is a vital means for understanding Russia's culture from the reign of Peter the Great to the era of Putin. These twenty-seven essays encompass a diverse range of topics, from dance and classical music to live poetry and from viral video to public jubilees and political protest. As a whole they comprise an integrated, compelling intervention in Russian studies.

Challenging the primacy of the written word in this field, the volume fosters a larger intellectual community informed by theories and practices of performance from anthropology, art history, dance studies, film studies, cultural and social history, literary studies, musicology, political science, theater studies, and sociology.

Table of contents

• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Preface
• Foreword: Performing Russia / W.B. Worthen
• Introduction: Thinking through Performance in Modern Russian Culture / Julie A. Buckler, Julie A. Cassiday, and Boris Wolfson
• Predstavlenie: Representation and Cultural Imagination
• Vystuplenie: Performers and Interventions
• Ispolnenie: Action and Agency
• References
• List of Contributors
• Index