2009 Course Handbook
CUL312: Performing Culture/Culture, Performance and Audience
From elaborate theatre productions to routine enactments in our everyday lives, performance occurs in particular places at specific times. This unit investigates the role of 'space' and 'place' in performance, exploring how such a study helps us to write and reflect critically on ephemeral events. Students attend a live theatre production and develop a performance analysis. The unit also looks at performances created for-and-in specific places (giant gardens, street corners, the windows of skyscrapers), as well as how we enact place in our everyday movements and behaviour. How do people embody and 'perform' beaches, cities, crocodile country? In taking the unit, students are not required to perform, however some tutorials will be workshop-based.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 3 |
| When Offered: | D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year |
| Staff Contact: | Dr Kate Rossmanith |
| Prerequisites: | 40cp including CUL100 or CUL101 |
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| Unit Designations: | -- |
| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: |
Department of Media, Music and Cultural Studies |
Timetable Information
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