Contemporary Performance: Theories and Practice

Catalog description

Performance course focusing on elements of contemporary and digital performance in relationship to stage, new technologies, video, installations and public art. Through interdisciplinary strategies, students gain tools to deepen their knowledge and range of performance. Requires students to engage in research, conceptualization and the creation of new original work, combining classroom workshops, various readings, fieldwork and production to emphasize interdisciplinarity, collaboration and personal vision. Once theories and concepts are explored, students work in a conceptually based and physically rigorous environment toward producing new work, culminating in a final performance project.