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department PERF_ST Performance Studies (X) |
The central goal of this course is to help the student reach an experiential and intellectual understanding of prose fiction through the act of performance. Emphasis is placed on how narrative functions in short stories and short novels, with specific works selected for exploration through discussion, workshops, and performance. It is assumed that the student will have had some exposure to the basic principles of performance and analysis of texts taught in GEN_CMN 103 ( or its equivalent). Students with this background are expected to be comfortable with the conventions of the solo performance of prose fiction. The course includes written analysis, workshops in adapting and staging a short story, discussion, and solo performance.
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Introduction to anthropological studies of performance. We will explore the ways in which social organizations, beliefs, values, and tensions are expressed in performance to sustain, enliven, consolidate, or subvert social orders. Emphasis on both Western and non-Western forms of performance: rituals, masks, carnivals, ceremonies, parades, theatre, dance. There are three objectives for the course: (1) to broaden and deepen understanding of performance as an expression of culture, (2) to enhance intercultural awareness and sensitivity by examining beliefs and expressive traditions very different from our own, (3) to understand performance as a construction of self and society.
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Primarily designed to prepare Performance Studies graduate students for their winter and spring recitals, and for future teaching of GEN COM 103 ("The Analysis and Performance of Literature"). The course addresses techniques of performance composition and performance criticism. The first unit focuses on using performance to examine a literary text; each seminar member develops two contrasting performances of a poem, the second of which employs an audio-visual design. The second unit focuses on theories and techniques of adaptation; each seminar member adapts and performs a passage of narrative fiction or a personal narrative. The third unit focuses on ethnographic performance: each seminar member adapts and performs interview materials. The fourth unit focuses on the recital: each seminar member presents a recital proposal.
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Culture refers to the expressive side of human life  behavior, objects and ideas that can express, represent, and /or stand for something else. In its most basic sense, to perform is to do, to show, to behave. In this course, we will consider how performance functions within the realm of material and expressive culture. We will consider how individuals use various types of performances to transmit social knowledge and convey communal identities. We will pay special attention to the political and economic circumstances that contextualize these performances. Focusing on a diverse sampling of beliefs, rituals, performances and practices, this course will expand and deepen our understanding of performance and some of its many cultural functions. The goal of this course is to enhance our intercultural awareness and competence, as well as introduce fieldwork research methods, especially those of participation-observation associated with performance ethnography. We will read about, observe, participate in and perform a range of activities, to include: athletic, political and commemorative events, secular and religious rituals, festivals, artistic conventions, food and culinary movements.
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Critical Performance Ethnography Part Two is an intensive examination of field methods and theories of ethnography. In this graduate seminar, students are expected to go beyond the confines of the campus and conduct fieldwork in the Chicago or surrounding areas. The site, if not already identified, will be determined in collaboration with the instructor. We will examine fieldwork techniques and methods from a Performance Studies prospective: mindful rapport, the organic interview, documenting oral history, crafting and revisioning the research design and lay summary, coding and interpreting data, etc. The theoretical focus of the course constitutes the convergence of social theory with performance theory: the phenomenology of political economy, the situatedness of difference, the embodied character of ethnics, and space as alterity and intimate habitation.
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This course is devoted to the study of modern and contemporary poetry throu performance, discussion, and written analysis. Poets studied include the high moderns, imagists, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, Beat poets of the 1950s, confessional poets, slam and rap poets. The goals are l) to deepen your understanding of poetry, considering performance traditions, poetic styles, and the cultural context in which the poem was produced and experienced; 2) to work with poetry in performance, whether it takes the form of a reading from the lectern, a staged or broadcast reading, a dramatic rendering, or as a multi-media piece in which music, image, voice, and body combine to render the work; 3) to introduce you to prosody and the craft of poetry ; 4) and to feature guest poets in class and outings to hear poets in the city as well as on campus. We will make sure that students are able to explore particular poets of interest to them. Students will present solo and group performances, engage in discussion and critiques of performances, and write short analytical papers or a longer research paper.
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