In Thinking through Performance, students will encounter and research historical and contemporary examples of live performance that use embodied action to investigate human identity, politics, and social justice. These examples are taken from roughly 1960 to the present moment. In addition, students will create a number of original performances, both independently and with their classmates, to address crucial issues of our own contemporary moment, including racial, gender, and sexual identity, as well as local and global issues of social (in)justice and belonging. Overall, the course aims to lead students to understand deliberate embodied action as a legitimate form of critical thought, and to learn to see and use performance as both an aesthetic medium and a powerful means to address social questions and concerns.

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