Handbook

The major aims to:

• Increase students' knowledge and appreciation of the history of the performing arts as well as recent evolution of innovative live arts in relation to a variety of theories that impact on performance and the perception of performance
• Enable students to explore selected performance works drawn form an international field and to discover connections with recent developments and current practice in Australia and enable students to experience some of these theories in practical applications through workshop activities and screenings
• Provide opportunities for students to recognise, articulate and evaluate the live aesthetics and embodied ethics of historical and contemporary performance
• Develop students' ability to think, speak and write about performance in a critically-engaged, aesthetically-informed and ethically responsive manner