TH 625 - Applied Theatre 1: Stories of Us

Credits: 4
Fall

What are the benefits and risks of using performance practices to facilitate community collaboration, engagement, and/or health? What is at stake-aesthetically, politically, and ethically-in arts-based community collaborations? And how do we navigate questions of identity, power, and privilege? This course explores the theory, practice, and politics of community-engaged performance and civic engagement through the arts. Through consideration of case studies and exploration of methodologies, students become familiar with creative strategies as well as ethical and political considerations central to the field (formerly TH 625: Theatre and Community: Stories of Us).