DRAM3100 Contemporary Performance Practice

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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, Live Art, environmental performance, or other emerging practices. We seek to make sense of one or more of those practices through the application of theoretical approaches that focus on the operation of space and place, time and event, the body in action, kinesthetic empathy, embodiment, performativity, and presence and desire.

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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:

Evaluate the significance of selected performance works and place them within larger frameworks of contemporary performance practice

Appraise relevant performance work using appropriate theoretical and aesthetic criteria

Evaluate how the performance works with respect to the operation of time, space, and the body

Discuss the embodied experience of performance and its reception with others in constructive and reflexive ways

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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Contemporary Performance Practice

DRAM3100