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I consider myself privileged for having been among the first students who attended Richard Schechner’s Performance Theory class at the Department of Graduate Drama, New York University in the spring semester, 1980. Later that year, the department’s name was changed to the Department of Performance Studies.
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Citron, A. (2011). Medical Clowning and Performance Theory. In: Harding, J.M., Rosenthal, C. (eds) The Rise of Performance Studies. Studies in International Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306059_19
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