Overview

At the heart of much contemporary performance practice is a heightened awareness and willingness to play with the fluid, shifting, and interconnected relationships between time, space, and the body. This topic looks at one or more distinctive strands of contemporary performance that may include dance, transmedia performance, VR and MoCap, … For more content click the Read More button below.

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Aims

This topic aims to:

  • Increase students' knowledge and appreciation of the recent evolution of contemporary performance practice
  • Provide opportunities for students to recognise, articulate and evaluate the relationship between time, space, and the body in contemporary performance
  • Enable students to identify how the relationships between time, space and the body circulate in contemporary performance practice and to critically evaluate points of commonality and difference between those practices
  • Develop students' ability to think, speak and write about performance in a critically-engaged, aesthetically-informed and ethically responsive manner

Learning outcomes

On completion of this topic you will be expected to be able to:
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Evaluate the significance of selected performance works and place them within larger frameworks of contemporary performance practice
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Appraise relevant performance work using appropriate theoretical and aesthetic criteria
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Evaluate how the performance works with respect to the operation of time, space, and the body
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Discuss the embodied experience of performance and its reception with others in constructive and reflexive ways
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Determine opportunities for engaging with aesthetic criteria using related ethical considerations in students' own practice as artists, critics, teachers, and informed spectators

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