Course detail
Performance Theory – Performance Studies
FaVU-4PT-PSAcad. year: 2024/2025
Performance Theory – Performance Studies extends on the performance theory course taught in the winter term. This semester is predominantly focused on Richard Schechner’s performance theory which is deeply rooted on one hand in his understanding of ritual(s), and on the other hand in his experience in the field of performing arts. Each class is divided into two parts: lecture and seminar. In the lectures, key issues of Schechner’s performance theory are introduced. In the seminars students are presenting their papers based on reading of selected chapters of the study literature. Students are encouraged to choose topics / chapters for their presentations in accordance with their own creative interests.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Compulsory attendance of at least 70%. Lower attendance, when explained reasonably, can be replaced with an additional seminar paper upon the agreement with the lecturer.
Aims
Upon completion of the course student will be able to:
- identify and summarize the important features of performance theory within performative practices (both within and outside of the field of contemporary art);
- to identify and analyze current performative art practices;
- to apply the key terminology of performance theory in writing about their own creative practice.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
SCHECHNER, Richard. Performance Studies: an introduction. 3rd ed. New York: Routledge, 2013. ISBN 9780415502306. (EN)
SCHECHNER, Richard. Performance Theory. Rev. and expanded ed. London: Routledge, 2003. ISBN 0415314550. (EN)
Recommended reading
GOLDBERG, RoseLee. Performance: live art since 1960. New York: Harry N. Abrams Publishers, 1998. ISBN 9780810943605. (EN)
HENRI, Adrian. Total art: environments, happenings, and performance. New York: Praeger, 1974. ISBN 978-0275435400.MCEVILLEY, Thomas. The triumph of anti-art: conceptual and performance art in the formation of post-modernism. Kingston, N.Y: McPherson & Co, 2012. ISBN 0929701925. (EN)
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Ritual
3. Play
4. Performativity
5. Performing
6. Performance Processes
7. Poetics of Performance
8. Actuality and Score
9. Ritual and Transformance
10. Global and Intercultural
11. Selective Inattention and Energy
12. Approaches and Aesthetics