Studies in Performance (410-0-20)

Instructors

Nadine Angela Ethlyn George

Meeting Info

Wirtz 215 Instruct Black Box 3: Fri 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This course focuses on the theory and artistry of public performance. The course will prepare you for your graduate performance and it will provide the tools required to explore the relationship between aesthetics, critical inquiry, and multimodal knowledge production and communication. Through critical essays, in-class discussions, and performance exercises we will investigate what it means to use the body, objects, storytelling, and dialogue as research methods and communicative media. The aim of the course is to explore performance as a meaning-making and transformative practice, paying close attention to the role of embodied behavior in the production, interpretation, and dissemination of knowledge.