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This course will introduce students to the conceptual possibilities of the Performing Arts, where they will learn how creative performance intersects with innovative thinking, community enrichment, and technology. Adopting a dramaturgical approach that will combine textual analysis, technological insight, and theories of spectatorship, students will work towards the realisation of a performance or a theatre piece. Through practical project work as well as the development of analytical skills that will focus on the triangulated relationship between dramatic text, image, and action, students will develop a working critical vocabulary that will encompass frameworks derived from the latest developments in scholarship on global theatrical practices, post-colonial theory, and ideas of socially engaged performances. At the end of this course, students will have a well-developed understanding of key dramaturgical concepts and will be able to deploy dramaturgical analysis to evaluate, critique, and participate in spheres of creative performance.