THTR 362 - Performance for Social Change

Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3

Description: Explores how performance can be a tool for social transformation within a global context from social media campaigns to organized protests. Engages in deep inquiry on diverse cross-cultural performance and learn tools to create social change through interdisciplinary collaboration. Uses the performance methods of Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, address issues of power, privilege, social identity, and systems of oppression. Covers the political, cultural, and historical contexts of contemporary global movements for social change and key theoretical frameworks with which to analyze and create performance. Applies performance tools for creative and non-violent action for social change through dialogue, interactive exercises, community-based performance, and identity awareness projects. Includes Equity/Diversity/ Inclusion (EDI) pedagogy through the lens of multicultural performance awareness and facilitator training for engaging in community dialogue.