Gagnon | THTR 120 | 2022W Term 1 | 1 THTR 120: Introduction to Theatre and Performance (Studies) 2022W Term 1 | FRWO 102 MWF 10am - 11am | 3 credits Dr. Olivia Michiko Gagnon Email: olivia.gagnon@ubc.ca Office Hours: Mondays 11:30am - 1pm PST, or by appointment ( ** Please follow my OH Link under the Zoom tab on Canvas) Sign Up: https://calendly.com/olivia-michiko-gagnon/ Teaching Assistants Allen Baylosis (Tutorial D11) Tutorial Location: Buchanan B309 Email: baylo515@student.ubc.ca Office Hours: Mondays 1pm - 2pm (via Zoom) Sign Up: https://calendly.com/allen- baylosis-w2021t1-office-hours/ Stephen Yaw Oppong (Tutorial D12) Tutorial Location: Buchanan D201 Email: soppong@student.ubc.ca Office Hours: Thursdays 2pm - 3pm (via Zoom) Sign Up: https://calendly.com/soppong/thtr_12 0_office hours Territorial Acknowledgement UBC's Point Grey Campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the x"meekway@ m (Musqueam) people. The land it is situated on has always been a place of learning for the Musqueam people, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next on this site. If you're joining us from a territory that is not your territory, I invite you to take the time to learn about whose territory you live on or are joining us from. This website (https://native-land.ca/) is an excellent resource that can help you get started, and I encourage you to use it as a starting point for thinking more deeply about what it means for you to inhabit the land: What is your relationship to that place? How did you come to be there? How do your daily actions, practices, and relations contribute to ongoing movements for Indigenous sovereignty, decolonization, and racial, social, and ecological justice? Course Description This course is an introduction to theatre and performance, as well as their concomitant academic discipline/s theatre and performance studies.
Gagnon | THTR 120 | 2022W Term 1 | 2 Performance will be broadly construed to include aesthetic performance (theatre, performance art, music, dance, visual culture, etc.), as well as everyday performances of the self. Together, we'll ask: where and how does performance happen and what are its social, political, and historical significances? Paying close attention to questions of race, gender, sexuality, disability, Indigeneity, class, and nation -- as well as to theatre and performance studies' braided relationship to other fields and bodies of knowledge (anthropology, feminism, queer theory, dance studies, critical race theory, queer of color critique, sound studies, critical Indigenous studies, etc) -- we will explore how the study of performance can help us understand contemporary questions of aesthetics, politics, history, and social culture. This course will place particular emphasis on political, Indigenous, queer, feminist, and minoritarian performance. Accessibility Statement & Knowing What and Where Your Resources Are Your success in this course is important to me. We will all need accommodations because we all learn differently. If there are aspects of this course that prevent you from learning or exclude you, please let me know as soon as possible. Together -- and likely in collaboration with the UBC Centre for