Collective Fairytales

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Many people see the contexts of folk tales and fairy tales as a fragment of our subconscious conception of the drama of life as it is lived in the interior of each one of us. In this course we will start by thinking of the structure, meaning, and function of folk tales and fairy tales and their enduring influence on literature and popular culture. And as we work to an understanding, we will collectively start to make a multi-media performance work. The goal will be to challenge ourselves to develop a greater understanding of the “language” of performance by exploring the numerous prisms (e.g., body, space, sound, time, etc.) through which performativity is/can be refracted. In order to foster a corporeal interrogation this course will be run as an interactive workshop and seminar in which we will: engage in various forms of play; analyze and critically evaluate our ideas, arguments, and points of view; and learn to apply course material to improve our own performance practices.