A.Y. 2024-2025 [1st Semester]

This is a reinvention of a course on the performance of chamber theatre. Moving away from the of structure of literature and the adaptation of text, we transform the coverage of the course to the body as an object, site, practice, and theory of performance. We approach the question of how the body in and as performance becomes a crucial way of knowing, feeling, and understanding. The goal is to situate, problematize, and generate bodies within regimes of the performative, the aesthetic, and the everyday.

 

We will lay the groundwork for studying and performing the body through discussions and practices that foreground its specific politics, philosophies, and (re)presentations. Afterwards, we will begin to (re)construct the body in relation to the self/autobiography, dance, movement, space, and objects. Later on, special topics on the “posthuman” body, disability, migration, the body as spectacle, and resistant, everyday embodied practices will become our reference points. An emphasis on indigenous, Asian, and anti-colonial thinking and action is encouraged. Finally, the body is introduced as a method of performance research and scholarship.

 

Our pedagogical approach will be humanistic, critical, and creative. You will be tasked with the critique and analysis of embodied forms and performances, as well as their artistic production. Here, we shall assert our roles as Filipino performance scholars and practitioners.