After successful completion of this course, the student has:
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developed a critical understanding of how performances (in the broadest sense, inside the theatre and outside, in other media and in public life) construct spectatorship
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developed a critical understanding of how the address presented by performances does invite modes of looking, allow for modes of engaging and behaving (while excluding others), suggest interpretations
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practiced with making critical understanding of constructions of spectatorship productive for advice to makers, curators, policy makers
After successful completion of this course, the student is able to:
– to critically analyze the construction of spectatorship in a concrete case
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How to relate to an audience is a fundamental question for makers and performers of all kinds, from actors and dancers to politicians and activists. This question has been answered in many different ways. Audiences have been pampered as well as offended, placed in the dark, all around, in public space, addressed as collective or individually.
How do audiences relate to performances is another fundamental question again for makers and performers of different kinds, as well as for policy makers, programmers, dramaturgs, critcs and theorists.
This course looks at what can be learned from the answers that have been given to these questions by theatre and dance makers and theorists. Students learn to use these answers for understanding spectatorship in the theatre but also outside. Special attention will be paid to the relationship between performance and media and how in both we can observe a general transformation ‘from audience to participant’. We will look at examples of performances (in theatre, media and public space) and analyse them for how they construct performances, how they address their audiences, how they have incorporated modes of doing so from other media or present a critical reflection on spectatorship in other media.
This course is part of Verdiepingspakket Theatre and dance culture and builds on knowledge and skills introduced and trained in Basispakket 1 and 2 Media an Culture. In this Verdiepingspakket students deepen their historical and theoretical knowledge of theatre and dance and train academic skills that are specific to the field, such as particular research methods and professional skills.
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