Performance Studies (PERF-GT)

Majors Only:This course will introduce incoming Master’s students to some of the concepts, terms, and theoretical genealogies that they can expect to encounter in Performance Studies. What makes performance studies performance studies, and why do it? In considering this question we will consider the specificity of performance as an object of study, a mode of inquiry, a practice of self-hood and sociality, and as an aesthetic practice; we will also focus on the specific challenges and potentialities in writing about/as performance.

Topics change each term: Please refer to department course website for current description when offered. https://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies/courses/graduate-course-descriptions