Performers: from Acting to Performance (2025/2026: Periode 3)

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Cursusdoel

In this course, you will gain knowledge about written and embodied concepts and methods for language-based as well as non-discursive and movement-based performances. We will critically discuss live acting in performances we visit together, and discuss them in relation to performance theory. We will critically unpack what ideologies underpin notions of i.e. amateurism vs professionalism, truth and authenticity, and what it might mean to perform a “self”, ways to approach the decolonizing of embodiment, the theatricalization of labour, and the representational potentials and limits of posthuman actors.

After successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • critically discuss epistemological differences of embodied knowledge and other learned performance theories
  • compare and discuss performance and acting techniques across different cultural contexts
  • analyse the performing and acting in relevant contemporary artworks, theatre performances and everyday life through relevant theories and concepts
  • independently conduct and evaluate an interview with a professional maker while adhering to professional standards, an ethical code of conduct and relevant data management policies

Vakinhoudelijk

“All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify” (Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 1965).

People do not only play roles in theatre and dance performances, feature films and television dramas, but people also play roles in everyday life. In mediated cultures and neoliberal societies, people’s behaviour and actions increasingly take on distinct forms of acting and performing to particular audiences: role-playing of politicians’ to their voters, role-playing of computer gamers, role-playing of candidates in reality TV entertainment, role-playing of Facebook users and others in online communities. Theatre, dance and performance have a long history of dealing and thinking through the hows and whys of acting and performing.

Aanvullende informatie

This course has priority rules and a waiting list. Your enrolment is guaranteed if you

- are a student in the BA Media and Culture and this course is part of your specialisation (verdiepingspakket)

- are a student in the BA Liberal Arts and Sciences or Taal- en Cultuurstudies and this course is part of your specialisation (kernpakket)

- are an exchange student and meet the course’s entry requirements

In all other situations, you will be placed on a waiting list if you enrol in this course. For any remaining slots in the course, lots are drawn among the students on the waiting list.

Please note: the time slot shown here is not yet final, and may still be modified until the third Wednesday in September.

Werkvormen

Hoorcollege

Werkcollege
Toelichting

In the tutorials, the students will reflect, evaluate and illustrate critical concepts and theoretical frames pertaining to acting and performing through formative practice-based research assignments and group discussion.

Bijdrage

Students need to actively engage in group discussions, practical exercises, and formative assignments.

Voorbereiding

For each tutorial, students need to read and prepare the essential readings, watch live performances and/or registrations, and the

Toetsing

Paper

Verplicht | Weging 60% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 4,5

• Effectiveness in describing the specific modes of the interviewee’s acting style or techniques • Articulation of the critical relevance of the interviewee’s practice to academic discourses and/or societal debates on acting and performing • Ability to choose relevant theories and concepts to effectively contextualise the interviewee’s practice and experience • Accuracy in documenting informed consent from the interviewee, in transcribing the interview data, and presenting a data management plan

You find the assessment deadlines in the Course Document, which you can access on Blackboard before the beginning of this course.

Portfolio

Verplicht | Weging 40% | Minimum cijfer 5,5 | ECTS 3

The student's ability to: • Make relevant analytic observations about the respective acting/performing in question • Distinguish and critically reflect on different roles of performers across artistic and societal contexts • Make connections between theory and practice as appropriate to the course by contextualising selected performances in relation to broader artistic, societal and cultural developments in the 20th/21st century

You find the assessment deadlines in the Course Document, which you can access on Blackboard before the beginning of this course.

Ingangseisen en voorkennis

Ingangseisen

Er is geen informatie over verplichte ingangseisen bekend.

Voorkennis

Students are expected to have a general knowledge and interest in performative theory, contemporary theatre and dance practice.

Voorkennis kan worden opgedaan met

Students are expected to have a general knowledge of how to read and discuss academic texts; and how to conduct individual research on assigned questions, concepts or makers. Prior knowledge can be gained by participating in the courses Audience & Spectatorship and theater en dans.

Voertalen

  • Engels

Cursusmomenten

Gerelateerde studies

Tentamens

Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus

Verplicht materiaal

  • READER
    In this class, students are expected to see 2-3 live theatre performances, for which they have to buy their tickets in advance. The dates and titles are communicated via the Course Document by the teacher.

Aanbevolen materiaal

Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend

Opmerkingen

Voorrangsregels

Coördinator

A. Marschall a.marschall@uu.nl

Docenten

A. Marschall a.marschall@uu.nl

Inschrijving

Deze cursus is open voor bijvakkers. Controleer wel of er aanvullende ingangseisen gelden.

Inschrijving
Van maandag 3 november 2025 tot en met vrijdag 21 november 2025

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