VPA 322 - Ideas of Performance

Institution:

University of Maryland-Baltimore County

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Description:

The course defines performance as any professional act done by an artist. Students investigate changing strategies of performance in dance, music, theatre and visual arts. Major questions: How do ideas get into the arts from other fields of experience How do the arts cope with the fading of traditional structures of meaning In studying the interaction among the various arts, the course refers to such developments as mixed-media and kinetic events and the use of environments, "anti-literatures,"verbal and non-verbal strategies, serialism, indeterminacy, ready-made materials, etc. Students are exposed to slides, video, films and guest lecturers from the VPA and other arts departments.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.umbc.edu

Phone Number:

(410) 455-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Four-one-four plan

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