After successful completion of this course, the student has:
- 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;
- developed a critical understanding of how the address presented by performances does invite modes of looking, allows for modes of engaging and behaving (while excluding others), and suggests interpretations;
- practiced with several concepts that be deployed in critical analysis.
- and is able to critically analyze the construction of spectatorship in a concrete case and present this analysis both in speaking and writing
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Priority rules apply to this course. Make sure you register for this course before June 14, 12.00 noon to be considered for enrollment.
The following students are guaranteed a place:
- BA Media en cultuur/BA Media and Culture
- BA TCS or LAS;
- students who are registered for the minor Comparative Media Studies;
- Kies Op Maat students;
- pre-master’s students.
Other students will be placed by means of random selection.
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.
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 in other forms of art and media (e.g. VR installations, performative games, performances in public space, online performance) 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 are constructed and composed, how they address their audiences via this composition, how they have incorporated forms and structures from other media and how they often present a critical reflection on spectatorship in our contemporary society/
This course is part of the specialisation Theatre and dance and the specialisation Participatory Cultures: Civic Engagement in Media and Performance. It builds on knowledge and skills introduced and trained in the core profiles (basispakketten) 1 and 2 of Media and Culture. In this specialisation 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.
LAS and TCS students who follow this course as part of the core curriculum of their major, need to complete a compulsory preparation course/assignment. See for more information: https://tcs.sites.uu.nl/
Early Exit option for international exchange students (5 ECTS)
Exchange students who are required to return to their home university before January, are allowed to choose an Early Exit option for this course. The Early Exit option means that students can finish the course before Christmas break, receiving 5 ECTS for the course. Students must make arrangements with the course coordinator at the start of the course.
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