Submitted by Albert Sub Yun
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There is space available in DRAMA 494. The topic will be "Performing Social Justice."
This course is taught by Professors Nikki Yeboah and Jasmine Mahmoud. Despite the 400-level course number, it is open to all levels of students (including graduate students). It's a timely course:
" What are the stakes of engaging histories and practices of social justice through performance and artmaking? How does an attention to narrative and the body animate social movements? The objective of the course is to engage social justice through performance and artmaking. In particular, this class leads students through three units (Unit I: theorizing/understanding performance and social justice; Unit II: scripting and rehearsing social justice; and Unit III: Staging, Intervening in, and Imagining New Worlds) to understand various genres of performance, and the ways in which performance is tactically mobilized in social justice movements. Genres of study include theater, performance art, and dance. Topics of study include abolition, race and racism, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, decoloniality, disability, and protest. No prior theater, performance, or artistic experience is required to succeed in this course."
This course is taught by Professors Nikki Yeboah and Jasmine Mahmoud. Despite the 400-level course number, it is open to all levels of students (including graduate students). It's a timely course:
" What are the stakes of engaging histories and practices of social justice through performance and artmaking? How does an attention to narrative and the body animate social movements? The objective of the course is to engage social justice through performance and artmaking. In particular, this class leads students through three units (Unit I: theorizing/understanding performance and social justice; Unit II: scripting and rehearsing social justice; and Unit III: Staging, Intervening in, and Imagining New Worlds) to understand various genres of performance, and the ways in which performance is tactically mobilized in social justice movements. Genres of study include theater, performance art, and dance. Topics of study include abolition, race and racism, gender, sexuality, indigeneity, decoloniality, disability, and protest. No prior theater, performance, or artistic experience is required to succeed in this course."
DRAMA 494 STUDIES THEA&DRAMA VLPA 13601 A 5 MW 930-1120