Art Performance
Explores art genres incorporating time-based performance, including theater, dance, music, and spoken word/poetry. Students experiment with approaches in exercises and analyze historical and contemporary works.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2018: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Experiment with different conceptual, formal, and thematic approaches to performance, applying them in exercises and student-developed artworks.
Analyze examples of art performance from art history, contemporary art scenes, and their peers’ class projects, to differentiate their varying aesthetic and structural approaches and evaluate their effectiveness.
Survey, through readings and in-class materials, the recent history of performance as an interdisciplinary art form, and connect their own goals to historical precedents.
Articulate a relation to performance that supports planned graduate work.
Source: UW Guide
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2018: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades); Spring 2020: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=10 letter grades).
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Topics
- Time-based performance art genres, including theater, dance, music, and spoken word/poetry.
- Conceptual, formal, and thematic approaches to performance applied in exercises and student-developed artworks.
- Analysis of art performance from art history and contemporary scenes, focusing on aesthetic and structural approaches.
- Recent history of performance as an interdisciplinary art form and connections to historical precedents.
Skills
- Experimenting with conceptual, formal, and thematic approaches to performance in exercises and student-developed artworks.
- Analyzing art performance examples from history and contemporary scenes to differentiate aesthetic and structural approaches and evaluate effectiveness.
- Surveying the recent history of performance as an interdisciplinary art form and connecting personal goals to historical precedents.
- Articulating a relation to performance that supports planned graduate work.
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