Performance Studies: From Ritual to Social Media

This module introduces Performance Studies, exploring how it examines performance from theatre and dance to social media and everyday life across cultures and historical periods.

This module explores the broad spectrum of performance from play and games to professional roles and performing arts, introducing key concepts like is/as performance and restored behavior.

This module examines how performances are generated, enacted, and evaluated, focusing on the processes of making, doing, and evaluating theatre, dance, and music.

This module explores the spectrum of performing from stage acting to everyday behavior, examining different types of performance in theatre, courtroom, and facial expressions.

This module examines ritual as a fundamental aspect of performance, exploring its biological roots in non-human animals and cultural manifestations in human societies through sacred and secular forms.

This module explores play as a fundamental aspect of human behavior from birth to death, examining its roots in animal behavior and complex manifestations in human activities from sports to make-believe and dark play.

This module investigates cave art as early human performance, exploring how paleolithic art was created and used, examining sites in Europe and their potential role as ancient performance spaces.

This module examines the 31-day outdoor performance of Ramlila, exploring its role as ritual, play, and social drama while analyzing make-believe, make-belief, and communitas in Indian performance traditions.

This module explores performativity from everyday life performances to performative writing, examining how actions are staged and analyzing cultural products as performatives.

This module examines how people perform social roles in daily life, exploring identity construction, emotional labor, and the relationship between individual and group identity.

This module analyzes social media as a performance space, examining how people construct online personas and interact in digital environments, while exploring the relationship between online and offline performances.

This module explores globalization's impact on performance, examining intercultural and transcultural performances while analyzing global phenomena like terrorism and the Olympics as performances.

This concluding module reflects on the journey through performance studies, examining its ongoing evolution as a discipline and methodology while considering its future directions.