Body, Performance, Politics

Catalog description

An experiential learning course that combines performance visits with seminars on the socio-political contexts of the performing body. Students will attend dance, music, and theater performances as well as film screenings and artist talks in downtown Santa Barbara while studying how racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and heteropatriarchy shape the questions of representation, production, and embodiment in the performing arts and performance art in the US. Course readings will be drawn from performance studies, visual cultural studies, and critical race and ethnic studies.