We will extrapolate issues from them, read theory through them, and explore methods for documenting, analyzing, interpreting, and writing about them. Readings will contextualize the performances we experience as well as offer models for how they might be studies. Performance Studies Issues and Methods Section 1 H42.2617.002. The second half of the twentieth century has seen an explosion of experimental performance. Older genres have been reconceived and restructured.
Artists continue to explore new approaches to texts, spaces, and audiences.
New means of performance composition were and are being devised. Connections were and are being forged between the arts, rituals, political-social actions, and local communities. All these explorations and innovations continue to be important and generative. The course is a two-semester sequence. Topics will be explored to some degree chronologically, but also thematically.