Performance Theory: Key Topics

4 credits · Graduate

Part one of a two-semester core sequence on performance theory, required of first-year Performance Studies PhD students. The course examines key issues and key words in performance studies, from the field’s emergence in the 1970s and 1980s to ongoing contemporary debates. Precise topics will vary by instructor, but may include theoretical investigations of corporeality; power, colonialism, and decoloniality; representation, mimesis, and mimicry; spectatorship, audience, and publics; performativity and more. Offered fall semester.