“…What makes performance especially attractive, however, to those of us who seek to develop this powerful insight, is that the performance forms of a community tend to be among the most memorable, repeatable, reflexively accessible forms of discourse in its communicative repertoire; that is to say, they are constructed and recognized as part of a succession of intertextually linked reiterations. Richard Schechner's observation that performance means "never for the first time" (Schechner 1985:36) and Lee Haring's (1988) suggestive term "interperformance" both foreground the intertextual resonances of performance.…”