THTR 362 - Performance for Social Change

Institution:

Indiana University of Pennsylvania-Main Campus

Subject:

Theater

Description:

Explores how performance can be a tool for social transformation within a global context fromsocial media campaigns to organized protests. Engages in deep inquiry on diverse cross-culturalperformance and learn tools to create social change through interdisciplinary collaboration.Uses the performance methods of Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, address issues of power, privilege, social identity, and systems of oppression. Covers the political, cultural, and historical contexts of contemporary global movements for social change and key theoreticalframeworks with which to analyze and create performance. Applies performance tools forcreative and non-violent action for social change through dialogue, interactive exercises,community-based performance, and identity awareness projects. Includes Equity/Diversity/Inclusion (EDI) pedagogy through the lens of multicultural performance awareness and facilitatortraining for engaging in community dialogue.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.iup.edu

Phone Number:

(724) 357-2100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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