Courses

This course will examine methods for transforming research into performance practice and for using performance practice as a laboratory for conducting research. Bridging the assumed divide between practice and theory, students will create performances that explore the central questions engaged by their research projects.

This course is designed to give graduate students applied, professionally-oriented work experience in a field related to one of the program's fields of specialization and/or the student's research areas. Note: This course is graded on a pass/fail basis.

This course is designed to give graduate students applied, professionally-oriented work experience in a field related to one of the program's fields of specialization and/or the student's research areas. Note: This course is graded on a pass/fail basis.

This course discusses research approaches, pedagogical strategies, and various aspects of professional development within theatre and performance studies. This course is required for and only open to Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies MA students and first-year PhD students.

Investigates the histories, dramaturgies, embodied practices, and ideological underpinnings of popular nineteenth-century performance genres and traces their lingering influences on twenty-first century entertainment.

This course provides an overview of dance in Canada with an in-depth look at one or more specific periods or topics in Canadian dance. Depending on the periods and topics selected for more detailed investigation, some of the following questions will be explored. Who taught dancing? What types of recreational and social dance did people engage in? How was dance activity organized and funded? How did external dance influences and trends in popular music, film and television impact on the field? What can the lives and perspectives of people dancing tell us about social change and continuity? Finally, why has dance been ignored in most accounts of Canadian culture?

This course is an opportunity for advanced research and in-depth reading in advanced aspects of theatre studies including but not limited to postcolonial theatre and drama, theory and performance studies and theatre, health and social change.

This course is an opportunity for advanced research and in-depth reading in areas related to students' research interests. Requests for an Independent Study course must be accompanied with an Independent Study Proposal (with the permission of the Graduate Program Director).

Drawing on examples from theatre and performances of the Americas (with an emphasis on First Nations Theatre and Performance), this course examines the use of theatre, spectacle, and theatricality- by the state, by oppositional groups, and by performance practitioners - to establish or challenge structures of power.