ASPP - UT/GT.1028/ 2028 Sem 4 Credits
Instructor(s): Karen Finley
Creative Response: Performance Matters, Between Imagination and Experience
Professor Karen Finley
ASPP – UT 1028 (Undergraduate – Seniors only)
ASPP – GT 2028 (Graduate only)
4 points– will count toward elective credits for undergraduates
Performance Matters will consider what influences private and public performance, to consider what is performing, what we perform and how we perform. This class will look deeper into varying aspects of staging such as everyday experience, lists, menus, rituals, timing, gathering and collecting. Performing and communicating the body: gender, race and identification. Awareness of work in progress, process, such as text, script, online and improvisation will be utilized. The visual aspect of performing: such as accessories, design and costume. Listening, finding voice and giving and taking commands, and deviation from dominant norms of entertainment and product. Hopefully with deeper understanding, we will seek to challenge and stimulate our own creative content to produce original, thought provoking performance. Students will present their own work either individually or in groups, write about the theory and content of their production and have assigned readings to supplement their areas of concentration.
