Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
HUAS 6340-001
FALL 2005
Thomas Riccio, Professor
Office #972.883.2016 (voice mail)
Thomas.riccio@utdallas.edu
www.thomas-riccio.net
Course objectives
Designed to be an introduction to performance studies, this course will
present an overview of the field and its connections to other
disciplines such as anthropology, theatre, philosophy, dance, feminism,
folklore, and cultural studies. Themes examined will include
performance historiography, performance of everyday life, and
performance in relationship to race, gender, politics, and technology.
Special attention will be paid to the issues of “multiculturalism” and
the political, social, and economic context of performance. Theoretical
and historical information will be grounded in and relate to
performance manifestations in and around Dallas. Students will be
asked to consider a wide range of performances -- theatrical,
choreographic, spontaneous, religious, erotic, and political. Through
theoretical readings and close analyses of performances the class will
ask what makes for such a diverse performance culture and how does it
reveal the human geography of the region, nation, and time we live in.
A special emphasis will be applied to approaches to writing about
performance.
Grading
Papers: Responses, Exercises 60% (12 Pts each)
Final Project 30%
Participation 10%
Required Reading
• Performance Studies: An Introduction, by Schechner, Richard
Routledge
• Performance Analysis, ed. Counsell & Wolf, Routledge
• The Performance Studies Reader ed. Henry Bial, Routledge
• Additional performance texts and articles will augment the
required reading list.
Weekly Assignments
August 23 Introductions
Outline of work and expectations
The Idea of Performance
September 6 Ritual
Ritual, Play and Performance
Varieties of Ritual
Sacred and secular
Read: PS 45-78
Performance Assignment #1 DUE
September 20 Play
What is Play?
Types of Play
Qualities of play
Deep Play, Dark play
Read: PS 79-109
Decoding Assignment #2 Due
September 27 TBA
October 4 Performtivity
Performatives and speech acts
Postmodernism
October 11 Simulation
Poststructualism/deconstruciton
Constructions of Gender
Constructions of race
Performance Art
Read: PA 57-154
Gender Assignment #3 Due
October 18 Performing
The spectrum of performing
Acting: Realistic, Brechtian, Codified,
Read: PS 143-187
Final Project Topics Identified
November 8 TBA
Read PA 155-228
“Tanzanian Theatre: From Marx to the Marketplace"