The Department of Performance Studies bridges the gap between anthropology, performing arts and cultural studies, exploring the myriad ways in which performance creates meaning and shapes social life. Performance shows culture in action, and offers valuable insights into how communities define and express their identities, values and beliefs. The Performance Studies Summer Institute offers intensive training in the multi-faceted methodology of performance. Courses in the 1999 Summer Institute on Performance and Politics range from theoretical topics in cultural critical theory and urban ethnography to performance workshops with Augusto Boal and Holly Hughes. The Summer Institute is required for students in the M.A. program and also open to students from other institutions that wish to take courses for transfer credit.
Courses are graduate level and are open to upper division undergraduate students.
All courses may be taken for credit or non-credit. Non-credit students pay a reduced tuition rate. Course dates and times are subject to change so it is best to confirm dates with the department. Barbara Browning 4 points. This course will offer an introduction to the history of Brazilian nationalist discourse, its relation to a variety of performative events, from African and indigenous syncretic religious ceremonies to the telenovela.