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Prof. Natsu Onoda Power

Wednesdays 2-5PM

This course explores approaches and techniques for devising a solo performance.

*Required for all first-year PS Students.*

Prof. Thomas F. DeFrantz

Mon./Wed. 11-12:20PM

Workshop exploration of technologies embedded in performance: robots, media, computer interface. Students create performance projects and discuss theoretical and historical implications of technologies in performance. Hands-on making and engineering workshops to develop basic skills in technological crafts such as circuit design and fabrication toward technologically enhanced performance. No previous experience or programming skills required.
Students will show creative work in each unit of the course.

Prof. Miriam Petty and Prof. Joshua Chambers-Letson

Tuesdays 2-5PM

Recognizing that media and performance—medium and the body—play related but divergent role in the making and unmaking of race, this course draws media studies and performance studies together to engage emergent and enduring texts relevant to issues of race, performance, and media from a variety of disciplines, eras, approaches, and schools of thought. We engage with film, video, new media, performance art, television, popular musical performance and the music video, as well as criticism and theory from Black studies, Asian American studies, and Latinx studies, with particular emphasis on Black feminisms and queer of color critique.

Prof. Thomas F. DeFrantz

Tuesdays 10 – 1PM 

Beginning with texts by Glissant and DuBois, this course demands close reading of work from four foundational thinkers of 21st-century Black life based on the African Continent, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the US. Alignments and distensions of concepts revealed by these researchers predict capacities to extend arguments of how Black Life coheres through methods of Black Thought. Graduate course.

Prof. Shayna Silverstein

Thursdays, 9:30 – 12:20PM

Studies if foundational arguments, methods, and problems in performance studies research. 

*Required for first-year graduate students.*