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Richard Schechner's Introduction to Performance Studies
  • Level Foundation
  • Duration 25 hours
  • Course by New York University
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Performance Studies: An Introduction explores the wide world of performance--from theatre, dance, and music to ritual, play, political campaigns, social media, and the performances of everyday life. Performance studies also ranges across cultures--Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, the Americas. And it spans historical periods from the art of the paleolithic caves to YouTube and the avantgarde. This course is devised by Richard Schechner, one of the pioneers of performance studies, in dialogue with more than a dozen expert scholars and artists. Performance Studies: An Introduction puts students in dialogue with the most important ideas, approaches, theories, and questions of this dynamic, new academic field. Learning Objectives By the end of this course, you should be able to: Articulate and analyze the major concepts of performance studies Identify and analyze performances within the “broad spectrum of performance”--from everyday life and social media to performance art and global spectacles such as the Olympics Comprehend key terms of performance studies, including is/as performance, restored behavior, ritual, play, make-belief/make-believe, performance in everyday life, the performative, and intercultural performance Produce collaborative work that demonstrates teamwork in applying ideas learned in the course Compare, analyze, and interpret performances of their own and other cultures Articulate how the major concepts of the course relate to their own experiences and worldviews Analyze and criticize in a constructive way the work of classmates The lessons present Schechner’s concept of performance studies along with online assignments. In the assignments, students apply what they are learning by composing short responses to materials, writing in their NYU Classes Forums, and by reviewing other students’ forum posts each week. Students choose either to work in groups of 3 to 5 on a term-long project maintaining a project portfolio in NYU Classes or to write a research paper. During the term, each group will lead an in-class 25-minute discussion of their project-in-progress. During the last face-to-face class, each group will present their project. The weekly content is: What is Performance? What is Performance Studies? Performance Processes From Not Performing to Performing Ritual Play Performing in the Paleolithic Ramlila of Ramnagar The Performing Brain Performativity Constructing Social Roles Social Media Intercultural, Transcultural, Global Group Projects & Wrap Up Course Requirements Each student is required to complete the week’s online lesson prior to the class session, attend and participate in the class sessions, complete the weekly assignments, participate and present the group project or submit a final paper. Required Readings See weekly online lessons. Required Viewings (Videos) See weekly online lessons. Written work Each student will either participate in a group project or write a research paper due at the end of the term, submitted electronically. Your professor will confer online and/or face-to-face during office hours to help students develop their writing and their projects. If you do a group project your professor may ask you to do some writing in relationship to your project. Academic Integrity The policy on plagiarism and academic honesty is posted on Classes. Read this document carefully, and be guided by it. Copyright Keep in mind the material you find in the online lessons is subject to copyright. You may not reproduce, reuse, or distribute it without permission outside of your work in this course. For more information on copyright and how it applies to course materials, see the Copyright Basics research guide.

Modules

Performance Studies: An Introduction

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  • Performance Studies: An Introduction

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  • Over All Course Learning Objectives

Defining Performance

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  • The Fan and the Web

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  • Defining Performance

The Nine Kinds of Performance

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  • EXCERPT FROM THE WAR ROOM1993, October Films

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The Seven Functions of Performance

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  • The Seven Functions of Performance

Is/As Performance

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  • IS/AS PERFORMANCE

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The Basic Parameters of Performance

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Restoration of Behavior

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Make Believe/Make Belief

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  • Make Believe/Make Belief

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What Is Performance Studies?

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Performance Studies at NYU and at Northwestern University

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  • Performance Studies at NYU and at Northwestern University

Performance Studies in China

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  • Performance Studies in China

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  • WILLIAM SUN AND FAYE C. FEI: PERFORMANCE STUDIES IN CHINA

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A Place for Performance Studies

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  • RICHARD SHERWIN: SHOULD LAW STUDENTS STUDY PERFORMANCE STUDIES?
  • FAYE C. FEI AND WILLIAM SUN: IMPROVING SOCIAL PERFORMANCE
  • ANNE BOGART: HOW HAS PERFORMANCE STUDIES INFLUENCED YOU?

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  • A Place for Performance Studies

Summary

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The Time-Space Sequence of Performance

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  • The Time-Space Sequence of Performance

The Time-Space Sequence of Performance: Training

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  • RYSZARD CIESLAK TRAINING TWO ACTORS OF THE DANISH ODIN THEATRET From Training in the theatre-laboratory in Wroclaw (1972, Odin Teatret Film)

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The Time-Space Sequence Of Performance: Workshop

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  • RICHARD SCHECHNER'S 2009 WORKSHOP AT NYU

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The Time-Space Sequence of Performance: Rehearsal

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The Time-Space Sequence of Performance: From Rehearsal to Performance

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  • The Time-Space Sequence of Performance: From Rehearsal to Performance

The Time-Space Sequence of Performance: Warm-Up, Performance, Cool-Down

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  • Cooldown

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The Time-Space Sequence Of Performance: Aftermath

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THE PERFORMANCE QUADRILOGUE

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  • THE PERFORMANCE QUADRILOGUE

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  • THE PERFORMANCE QUADRILOGUE

Montage, Audience Participation, and Virtual Reality

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  • Dionysus in 69 virtual environment
  • MARIANNE WEEMS: THE ROLE OF AUDIENCE

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Introduction

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  • EXCERPTS FROM THE DICK CAVETT SHOW WITH MARLON BRANDO From The Dick Cavett Show: Hollywood Greats Collection

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Types of Performing

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  • TYPES OF PERFORMING

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Kinds of Onstage Performing

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  • ANNE BOGART AND MARIANNE WEEMS: KINDS OF ACTING

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Realistic Performing

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  • REALISTIC PERFORMING

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  • A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

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Brechtian Performing

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  • BRECHTIAN PERFORMING

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Codified Performing

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  • CODIFIED PERFORMING

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Courtroom Trials as Performance

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  • COURTROOM TRIALS AS PERFORMANCES

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  • RICHARD SHERWIN: COURTROOM THEATER

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Codified Expressions of Emotion in the Human Face

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  • CODIFIED EXPRESSIONS OF EMOTION IN THE HUMAN FACE

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Summary

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Introduction

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  • RONALD GRIMES: WHAT IS RITUAL?

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Ritual as Performance

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  • RITUAL AS PERFORMANCE

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  • PANEL: DEFINING RITUAL
  • RONALD GRIMES: TURNER'S DEFINITION OF RITUAL

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The Evolution of Ritual from Animals to Humans

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  • RONALD GRIMES: ANIMAL AND HUMAN RITUALS

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  • The Evolution of Ritual from Animals to Humans

The Secular and the Sacred

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  • THE SECULAR AND THE SACRED

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THE RITUAL PROCESS AND COMMUNITAS

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  • THE RITUAL PROCESS AND COMMUNITAS

Social Drama

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  • Social Drama

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  • RICHARD SCHECHNER: TURNER AND SOCIAL DRAMA
  •  RICHARD SHERWIN: LAW AS SOCIAL DRAMA
  • EXCERPT FROM THE WAR ROOM1993, October Films
  • RONALD GRIMES: ARE RITUALS DRAMATIC?

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Liminal and Liminoid

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  • Liminal and Liminoid

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  • RICHARD SCHECHNER: LIMINAL AND COMMUNITAS
  • RONALD GRIMES: A CRITIQUE OF TURNER

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Changing, Inventing, and Recontextualizing Rituals

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  • PANEL: CAN RITUALS CHANGE?
  • RONALD GRIMES: INVENTING RITUALS

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  • Changing, Inventing, and Recontextualizing Rituals

Summary

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Introduction

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  • BRUCE MCCONACHIE: PLAY

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What Is Play? What Is Playing?

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  • WHAT IS PLAY? WHAT IS PLAYING?

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  • GORDON BURGHARDT: WHAT IS PLAY?

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  • What Is Play? What Is Playing?

Animal and Human Play

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  • EXCERPT FROM ANIMALS LIKE US
  • GORDON BURGHARDT: FIVE CRITERIA FOR IDENTIFYING PLAY
  • BRUCE MCCONACHIE: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ANIMAL AND HUMAN PLAY

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  • Animal and Human Play

Play and Games

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  • Play and Games

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  • BRUCE MCCONACHIE: KINDS OF PLAY
  • PANEL: PLAY AND RULES

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Flow and Metacommunication

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Maya-Lila

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  • Maya-Lila

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  • What is Maya-lia

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Dark Play

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  • Dark Play

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  • EXCERPT FROM THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLDFrom The Yes Men
  • The Yes Men on BBC Bhopal Disaster
  • The Yes Men on RT Going Underground

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  • Dark Play

Playing in Public: New York’s Halloween Parade and Trinidad's Carnival

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  • EXCERPTS FROM MAS MAN Courtesy of Nalton Narine
  • Tony Hall & Felix Edinborough: PLAYING MAS
  • FELIX EDINBOROUGH AS PIERROT GRENADE

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  • Playing in Public: New York’s Halloween Parade and Trinidad's Carnival

Summary

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  • Gordon Burghardt: THE PRIMEVAL ROOTS OF PLAY

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Introduction

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  • Introduction

What Is the Paleolithic?

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  • What Is the Paleolithic?

Where is the Art and How Old is It?

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  • Where is the Art and How Old is It?

What Were the Functions of Cave Art?

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  • EXCERPT FROM CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

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  • What Were the Functions of Cave Art?

Vulvas, “Venuses,” Women Artists, Hybrids

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  • Vulvas, “Venuses,” Women Artists, Hybrids

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Performance as a Key to Understanding the Cave Art

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  • EXCERPT FROM CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

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Trance and Hallucination as Ways of Creating Cave Art

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  • EXCERPTS FROM HOW ART MADE THE WORLD

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Initiation Rites in Paleolithic Caves

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Transportation/Transformation

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  • Transportation/Transformation

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Summary

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Introduction

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Where is Ramnagar?

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  • Where is Ramnagar?

What Is the Story?

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  • WHAT IS THE STORY?

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Kot Vidai: At Ramnagar Ramlila Only

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  • Kot Vidai: At Ramnagar Ramlila Only

How Ramlila Is Staged: On the Move

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  • A DAY AT THE RAMLILA: THE PEOPLE, THE PREPARATION, AND THE DAILY DEPARTURE

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  • How Ramlila Is Staged: On the Move

The Seven Types of Roles in the Ramlila

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  • RAMAYANIS

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  • The Seven Types of Roles in the Ramlila

Make Believe, Make Belief, and Maya-Lila in Ramlila

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  • MAKE BELIEVE, MAKE BELIEF, AND MAYA-LILA IN RAMLILA

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  • Make Believe, Make Belief, and Maya-Lila in Ramlila MAKE-BELIEVE AND MAKE-BELIEF IN RAMLILA
  • RAMLILA OF RAMNAGAR: LAKSHMAN CUTS OFF SURPANAKHA'S NOSE AND EARS
  • BECOMING THE GODS

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  • Make Believe, Make Belief, and Maya-Lila in Ramlila

Ramlila as a Social Drama and as a Carnival

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  • Ramlila as a Social Drama and as a Carnival

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Ramlila's Spectator Experience as Communitas

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Participant Observation

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  • Participant Observation

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  • THE STORY OF RAMLILA TOLD THROUGH THE EXPERIENCES AND OBSERVATIONS OF RICHARD SCHECHNER

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Summary

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Introduction

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  • Panel: Performance, the Performative, and Performativity

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What Is a Performative? What Is Performativity?

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Modern, Postmodern, and Poststructural

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Speech Acts

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The Real and the Imaginary

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  • The Real and the Imaginary

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  • CAROL MARTIN: THEATRE OF THE REAL

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  • The Real and the Imaginary

Simulations

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  • Simulations

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Lifelike Art Versus Artlike Art

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  • SPALDING GRAY: EXCERPT FROM SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA

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  • Lifelike Art Versus Artlike Art

Performativity and Performance Art

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  • Performativity and Performance Art

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Summary

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Introduction

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  • Introduction

What Are Social Roles?

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  • What Are Social Roles?

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  • What Are Social Roles?

Playing Social Roles

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  • Playing Social Roles

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  • Guillermo Gómez-Peña Speaks about Multiple Identities

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  • Playing Social Roles

Emotional Labor

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  • Emotional Labor

Constructions of Gender

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  • Constructions of Gender
  • Agree or Disagree

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  • EXCERPTS FROM PARIS IS BURNING

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  • Constructions of Gender

Constructions of Race

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  • Constructions of Race

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  • EXCERPT FROM FIRES IN THE MIRROR

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  • Summary

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Introduction

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  • PANEL: THE PERFORMER-AUDIENCE ROLE

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Changing the Ways People Communicate

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  • Changing the Ways People Communicate

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Performing Yourself Using Social Media

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  • PERFORMING YOURSELF ON SOCIAL MEDIA

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  • DANAH BOYD: GOFFMAN'S DEFINITION OF PERFORMANCE

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  • Performing Yourself Using Social Media

Online and Offline Performances

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  • Online and Offline Performances

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  • CLAY SHIRKY: THE ARGUMENT AGAINST DIGITAL DUALISM
  • DANAH BOYD: THE ONLINE VERSUS THE OFFLINE SELF

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  • Online and Offline Performances

History and Theory of Social Media/Social Networks

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  • History and Theory of Social Media/Social Networks

Constructions of Identities on Social Media

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  • Constructions of Identities on Social Media

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  • DANAH BOYD: ONLINE BEHAVIOR AND IDENTITY

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  • Constructions of Identities on Social Media

The Importance of Interests

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  • The Importance of Interests

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Ways of Performing Online

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  • Ways of Performing Online

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  • danah boyd: Demographics and Online Identity
  • danah boyd: Public and Private Audiences
  • Clay Shirky: Audience/Device Relationship

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  • Ways of Performing Online

Truth and Lies in Social Media

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  • Truth and Lies in Social Media

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  • DANAH BOYD: THE NATURE OF TRUTH ONLINE

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Social Media, Equality, and Change

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  • Social Media, Equality, and Change

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  • Clay Shirky/danah boyd: Social Media, Social Equality, and Social Change
  • Clay Shirky: Social Media and Political Action
  • Clay Shirky: Can Online Protests Replace Physical Protests

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  • Social Media, Equality, and Change

Media's Influence on the Arts

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  • Media's Influence on the Arts

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Summary

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Introduction

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  • Introduction

What Is Globalization?

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  • What Is Globalization?

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  • WHAT IS GLOBALIZATION?

Intercultural, Multicultural, and Transcultural Performances?

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  • RICHARD SCHECHNER: TRANSCULTURAL PERFORMANCES

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  • Intercultural, Multicultural, and Transcultural Performances?

Intercultural Performances

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  • COCO FUSCO AND PAULA HEREDIA, THE COUPLE IN THE CAGE: A GUATINAUI ODYSSEY
  • WILLIAM SUN AND FAYE C. FEI: INTERCULTURAL PERFORMANCES

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  • Intercultural Performances

Transcultural Performances

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  • Transcultural Performances

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  • PANEL: TRANSCULTURATION

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  • Transcultural Performances

Terrorism as Performance

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  • Terrorism as Performance

The Olympics as Global Performance

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  • The Olympics as Global Performance

Summary

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  • GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA INTERVIEW

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Course Summary

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  • COURSE SUMMARY BY RICHARD SCHECHNER

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Richard Schechner's Introduction to Performance Studies, offered on Coursera, delves into the expansive realm of performance across cultures and historical periods, from ancient rituals to modern social media. This foundational course, designed by a pioneer in the field, features lessons on key concepts, theories, and global perspectives. Learners will engage in collaborative projects or research, with weekly assignments and discussions. Ideal for arts and humanities enthusiasts, the course spans 1500 hours, with subscription options available for both starter and professional levels.

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