Spring 2017 - FPA 457 D100
Context of Theatre III (4)
Class Number: 8248
Delivery Method: In Person
Overview
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Course Times + Location:
Jan 4 – Apr 7, 2017: Fri, 9:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
GOLDCORP
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Instructor:
Lindsay Lachance
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Prerequisites:
45 units and prior approval from the instructor.
Description
CALENDAR DESCRIPTION:
An analytical approach to a selected body of dramatic work. Course content includes an intensive consideration of practical dramatic techniques such as story structure and dramaturgy. May be repeated for credit if course content is different.
COURSE DETAILS:
In this course, students will engage with a wide array of Indigenous performing arts presented in unceded Coast Salish territories.
Students are required to attend performances at The Talking Stick Festival, The PuSh Festival, the Coastal First Nations Dance Festival, as well as other gatherings and events. This course is designed to introduce students to a variety of play and performance texts that will help shape an understanding of Indigenous performance aesthetics and dramaturgical processes in Canada.
During this course we will draw upon a wide range of texts to situate performances politically and historically in order to investigate how Indigenous ways of being, knowing, and relationship to lands are expressed and activated through artistic processes and practices.
Students will develop and put into practice the ability to compare, research, analyze and write about the ways in which Indigenous theatre practitioners utilize embodied politics to claim space for cultural resurgence within their practices.
COURSE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL GOALS:
Learning Objectives
· Provide students with the historical background and theoretical tools required to begin their understanding of Indigenous Theatre in Canada
· Introduce students to the key interventions and critical/theoretical debates relating to Indigenous Art as tools for decolonization in Canada
· Develop students’ capacity to critically analyze, read, write, and research in the field of First Nations and Indigenous Studies and Theatre Studies
· Introduce students to a variety of contemporary examples of Indigenous resistance and resurgences through various forms of artistic performative practices
· Provide students with the skills and confidence to make and support critical claims about Indigenous theatre in Canada
Grading
- Participation 25%
- Pre-Performance Horizon of Expectations Discussions 5%
- Post-Performance Presentation 20%
- Selected Topic Response Paper 10%
- Group Presentation 20%
- Final Project 20%
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