All Together Now: Performance Dramaturgy/Performance Curation
THEA 275
Spring 2027
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01
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Theater is having a moment. The past few years seen the resurgence of off-Broadway theater scenes, while the past two decades have seen visual arts institutions develop new platforms for presenting performance as well as novel approaches to utilizing performance as means of both public engagement and a way to expand the museums archive. Through a series of case studies, this course will explore the relationship of performance to contemporary art, asking what kinds of forces have reoriented institutions around performance as well as in what ways performance reorganizes the institution. The course will ground its discussion by considering the contrasting and at times increasingly blurred roles between performance curation and performance dramaturgy. How do we create space for performance in a field dominated by art objects? What kinds of critical, artistic, and theoretical tools might be mobilized to meet the demands performance places on the visual arts? Students will be asked not only to reflect on the role of performance in contemporary art, but to experiment with dramaturgical approaches to writing and thinking about performance. Moving between practice and theory, our course will ebb and flow between seminar discussion and a kind of laboratory where we will learn about new models for producing, presenting, and dramaturging performance. Readings will be drawn from theater studies, dance studies, art history, and performance studies to help us examine the condition of theater in general -- its association with spectacle, commercialism, and an appeal to popular culture and mass media -- and to ask why so many artists across different disciplines are turning towards making performance today. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA THEA |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (Theater) |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course counts towards the Theater Methods requirement for the THEA major. |
| Instructor(s): Lubin-Levy,Joshua Daniel Times: .M.W... 10:50AM-12:10PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 3 | FR: 3 |
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