THEA 015. Performance Theory and Practice

What is performance? How does it mean what it means? This course provides an overview of some of the key theories and practices animating the study and embodiment of performance across various sites. Examining an array of critical, cultural, and expressive texts-from staged events to visual art to examples of performance in everyday life-we will sharpen particular focus on the ideas and strategies that scholars, artists, activists, and ordinary figures alike have developed and deployed to expand understandings of performance as a lens, methodology, object of analysis, and mode of critical and creative inquiry. Through class discussions, presentations, writing assignments, and viewings, students in this course will enhance their understanding of dramatic and performance theory, deepen their knowledge of the disciplines of theater and performance studies, and develop a greater appreciation for the ways theory and practice are often mutually constitutive and inextricably linked.
Fulfills a general requirement for all theater majors and minors.
Prerequisite: THEA 001 or consent of instructor.
Humanities.
Writing course.
1 credit.
Eligible for GLBL-Core
Fall 2024. Wooden.
Catalog chapter: Theater
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/department-theater

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