THPERF 301 - Performance Creation

An integrated course exploring diverse approaches to creating original performance across multiple contexts and media. Students study, apply, and critique a range of collaborative creation methodologies, with special attention to site-specific performance and place-making through the body, language, space, and technology. The course emphasizes the relationship between creative processes and the significance of works in their communities, examining how performance can respond to, challenge, and transform social contexts. Through hands-on projects, students develop skills in collaborative leadership, interdisciplinary research, and critical analysis of artistic processes.