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Kanta A Kochhar
BCULST 582
Bothell Campus
Focuses on how a specific performance approach, such as dance, movement, theatre, storytelling, mixed media, or performing ethnography, acts as a site of research in relation to a particular topic. Examines how to implement performance-based approached and assess their significance. Prerequisite: BCULST 500 or permission of instructor. Offered: AWSpS.
Class description
Course Description: Performance-based research methods focuses on how a specific performance approach, such as dance, movement, theatre, storytelling, mixed media, or performing ethnography, acts as a site of research in relation to a particular topic. Examines how to implement performance-based approached and assess their significance.
Theory and related skill sets; Development of applied methodologies; Case study
Student learning goals
To gain skill applying performance based-research to a specific area,
To build an understanding of the role arts-based research can play across discipline and sectors,
To contextualize further performance-based research within a historical and international frame, including seminal figures and important socio-historical moments, around the specific topic,
To explore the tensions between various performance-based research methodologies around the specific topic as a way of engaging in cultural/social/political critique and envisioning new models of cultural critique and work, and
To apply the course findings to individual areas of interest.
General method of instruction
Lecture, Workshop, Discussion
Recommended preparation
BCULST 501 or permission of instructor
Class assignments and grading
Key Course Assignments: Two Observation/Documentation Exercises: 40% Two Synthesis Papers/Projects: 60%
