Schedule

Date	Topic	Readings/Listenings/ Viewings Due	Assignment Due
09/10/13	Defining Performance Studies, Intros, Code of Conduct
09/12/13	Performance as Temporal, Emergent, Transformative and Transactional	Pelias/Shaffer Ch. 1&2 Youngblood, pp. 346-351 Salter, pp. xxi- xxiii
09/17/13	Systems and Relationships of Performance	Radiolab, “Emergence Radiolab, “Help!”
09/19/13	Systems and Relationships of Performance, Part II	Pelias/Shaffer Ch. 3&11
09/24/13	History of Performance Studies & Contemporary Developments		YouTube Performance
09/26/13	Drama in Aesthetic Language	Pelias/Shaffer Ch. 5 & 8; Salter p. xxvii-xxx
10/01/13	Contemporary Techniques: The Montage, The Collage, The Assemblage		Cut-Up Exercise/Performance
10/03/13	Structures of Aesthetic Texts		Peer Analysis Exercise    (blog)
10/08/13	The Art of Giving & Receiving Critique	Pelias/Shaffer Ch. 12	Peer Crit Exercise
10/10/13	Intermedia, Day I/Mid-term evals	Youngblood, pp. 345-387
10/15/13	Intermedia, Day II		Intermedia Concept (blog)
10/17/13	Intermedia, Day III		Intermedia Performances
10/22/13	Ethnographical Methodology	Pelias/Shaffer Ch. 4 Radiolab, “Yellow Rain”	Alternate Perspective Performance Concept (blog)
10/24/13	Media Techniques		Short blog response relating to podcast
10/29/13	Ethnographical Performance		Alternate Perspective Performance
10/31/13	Vocal and Embodied Techniques of Performance
11/05/13	Empathy	Pelias/Shaffer Ch. 6 Pelias/Shaffer Ch. 7
11/07/13	Final Performance Concept/End-of Quarter 1 on 1 meetings		Vocal Analysis Assignment/Reflection
11/12/13	Final Performance Prep		Performance Draft Presentation (partners)
11/14/13	Self-Critique		Self-Critique Final Reflection Papers
11/19/13	Final Performances		Final Performances