Issues in Performance Studies

Explores myriad ways of thinking, doing and talking about performance in the broad spectrum -- from social media to theatre, dance, film, and everyday life including identifications and disidentifications of gender, race, sex, and class. We may study museum installations, surgery, tourism, carnival, history reenactments, performance-based art, sports, and even dinner parties among other actions and sites. The objective is not to pin down a genre or category of performance but to understand performance variously as an analytic and practice, a form of lived history and way of being, including but not limited to traditional theater and dance practices.