Subject Area: Theatre and Performance Studies

Live Art and Physical Theatres understands the global flows of world performance through current theories and practices of the body. This course examines the function and significance of the body in non-text based forms of performance in socio-historic twentieth-century experimental performance to contemporary dance theatre and physical theatre. It introduces the various ways in which physical performance practices are constructed and interpreted across disciplines such as, for example: visual arts, dance, disability arts and time-based arts. It focuses in particular on the kinds of effects produced in, on, and through bodies in theatre, performance and visual culture in different cultural and historical contexts.