Readings, Schedule

Introduction to Performance – Fall 2012 – Syllabus

(Click on link of each reading, below, for text)

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WEEK ONE – August 21 and 23 – Introduction

Reading 1: Introduction to Hafiz, translation and interpretation, by Ladinsky and Hafiz (excerpts, to read) – Hafiz Introductory Poems

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Supplemental to our discussion: Theories of Performance, Communication, Transmission

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WEEK TWO – August 28 and 30 – Performances 1 and 2  

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WEEK THREE – September 4 and 6 – Communication, Identity, Ethics *Blog 1 Sept. 3

Labor Day Holiday, Readings 1 and 2:  and Madison, Lugones Ethics of Performance with Invisible Theater Boal 119-124 and Adrian Piper Race and Performance 125-132

Supplemental: Madison – Key Theories of Difference, Race and Gender

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 WEEK FOUR – September 11 and 13 – History, Culture, Dialectics *Blog 2 Sept. 10

Readings 1 and 2: Organizing for Social Change 30-44Reading 2:  Organizing for Social Change 44-52

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WEEK FIVE – September 18 and 20 – Conscientization *Blog 3 Sept. 17

Reading 1: Pedagogy of the Oppressed Intro and Ch 2

Reading 2: Pedagogy of the Oppressed Ch 1

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WEEK SIX – September 25 and 27 – Ritual and Symbol – Possibility  *Blog 4 Sept. 24

Reading 1: Witness: The Guerrilla Theater of Greenpeace, 67-73 and supplemental

Reading 2: Dwight Conquergood Health Theater , 220-229 and  Safdar Hashmi, The Right to Perform, p31-37

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WEEK SEVEN – October 2 and 4 – Play and Improvisation *Blog 5 Oct. 1

ASSIGNMENT : First choose one sociocultural issue (something we “perform”) that you have recently been curious/passionate about. THEN pick your favorite TWO Poems from: Hafiz You Hold – Invitational Performances, that you feel might be in conversation with your topic of interest. Write about this topic, and post the titles of both poems to the blog.

Reading: Explore models / leaders of exploratory choreography, Anna Halprin Body-Mind-Movement Bio, Liz Lerman / Dance Exchange’s Moving Stories, Supplemental READING: Theories of Performance – Choreography

We will explore this week some of Liz Lerman’s Tool Box, and have In class rehearsal.

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WEEK EIGHT – October 9 and 11 – Invitational Performances 1 and 2

Hafiz You Hold – Invitational Performances

 

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 WEEK NINE – October 16 and 18 – Midterm and Fall Break

Midterm due October 16 (and 18 is FB)

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WEEK TEN – October 23 and 25 – Theater – Expanding *Blog 6 Oct. 22

Reading 1: Theatre of the Oppressed 119-134 and Boal Actors-Nonactors, 6-10

Reading 2: Theatre of the Oppressed 135-155

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WEEK ELEVEN – October 30 and November 1 –Radical Realigning *Blog 7  Oct. 29

Reading 1: Organizing for Social Change 53-63, and 245-260

Reading 2: Performance Studies/Conquergood, and Witnessing, Beyond Recognition (in class)

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WEEK TWELVE – November 6 and 8 –  *Blog 8 Nov. 5

Reshaping witness 

Reading 1: Pollock, Remembering, Oral History Performance, Introduction

Reading 2: Ethics and Formulating Questions

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WEEK THIRTEEN – November 13 and 15 – Building Peace  *Blog 9 Nov. 12

Reading 1: Moral Imagination, On Aesthetics 65-74

Reading 2: Moral Imagination Reading, On Pied Pipers 151-162, CH 3 Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1st 5.5 pages)

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WEEK FOURTEEN – November 20 and 22 – Rehearsal and Thanksgiving

In class rehearsal (and 22 is TG)

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WEEK FIFTEEN – November 27 and 29 – Dialogic Performances

Hafiz’s Door – Dialogic Performances

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WEEK SIXTEEN – December 4 and December 8 – Re-mix Preparation and Final Exam

*Read for reference: Pollock, Performative Writing (Madison’s key concepts)

In class roundtable

December 8, Saturday, 12 noon Final Exam and Re-mix Performances

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