This course examines performances of contemporary intercultural collaborations, theatrical and mundane, to understand not only how people express identities in partnership with international partners, but also articulate perspectives on global concerns. By asking what intercultural collaboration means, we will consider how distinctive performance traditions grow and change when in conversation with each other. By what means do international partners create new identities in conversation with each other to forge new global identities or articulate responses to global concerns? And how might these performances embody what Michel De Certeau names “haunted places,” places inscribed again and again with meaning? To consider these questions, we will analyze the work of artists of the African diaspora, 21st century new media artists, and contemporary applications of Japanese Noh aesthetics, as well as others. Drawing upon University Archives & Special Collections, amongst other sources, students will have the opportunity to propose a unique experiential learning project about intercultural collaboration, which will empower them to articulate their own perspective on a specific contemporary global issue.
Fall 2024 (2251)
THEA 0825-30754
Number of Credits
3