THETR-489 Performance Studies
This course provides an overview of the modern concept of performance and performativity and how these concepts have fundamentally altered the ways we perceive and understand our world. Encompassing the areas of dance, music, theatre, installation work, 'happenings' and spectacles, as well as sporting events, political campaigns, social/religions rituals, advertising and social media, students will explore the ways performance and "performativity" are understood by ethnographers, anthropologists, linguists, cultural theorists, social scientists, and artists. Using the theoretical base covered during the semester, students will conceive, develop, and present a final performance piece appropriate to their chosen discipline.
Offered
Occasionally