Introduction to Performance Studies (200-0-1)

Instructors

Ligaya Jennifer Senecal

Meeting Info

AM Swift Krause Studio 103: Tues, Thurs 12:30PM - 1:50PM

Overview of class

Explores practices, themes, and debates in performance studies. Includes the making and adapting of performance, performance as research method, and the study of performance history and theory. Forms studied may include performance art, theatre, music, dance, pop culture, and protest, from Broadway musicals, Beyoncé, and Disney theme parks, through to Yoko Ono, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, sports, political spectacle, and activist street action.

Class Attributes

Literature and Arts Foundational Discipline
SoC Humanities and Fine Arts Distro