Performance and Nightlife: Performing Race, Gender, and Sexuality after Dark

4 credits

This course examines how nightlife cultures have made lasting cultural and aesthetic interventions in today’s performance landscape. Students learn about distinct nightlife cultures across global contexts by studying a range of topics (drag performance, cabaret, burlesque, strip clubs, house dancing, raves, reggae clubs, DJing, club pedagogies). Readings examine nightlife as a space of pleasure and possibility while also critically engaging with the hierarchies that exist in these spaces. Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.