THD 340 - Performance Studies Workshop: Performance as Research

4 credits (Fall or Spring)

Advanced performance workshop emphasizing the ways theoretical concepts and considerations can be transformed into embodied artistic activity. Highlighting the creative potential of theory in the making and presentation of performance, this course introduces performance-based methodologies as well as aesthetic and analytical research skills for developing original performance work. Topics could include: Devised Performance; Scoring the Avant-Garde; Theatre of Images; Myth, Ritual, and Healing; Life/Art Performance; Performance and the Moving Image; Sound, Listening, and Imagination; Performance and Architecture. May be repeated once for credit when topic changes. For current offerings review the variable topic course listing below or use the course search to filter by variable topic type.

Prerequisite: Any 200-level Theatre course except THD 200 or THD 250.
Note: Plus-2 option available. Not offered every year.
Instructor: Staff