🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

The purpose of the course is to introduce students to the concept of performance and its basic characteristics. During the lessons, we will study the various cases of performances through the examination of cases from social, ritual and aesthetic performances, as well as the performances of everyday life. The course also focuses on the elements of ritual and play that govern performances, the importance of the body, the performative space and the activation of the senses. The lessons will be mainly theoretical and will be accompanied by practical application workshops.

At the end of the course the student should be able to:

• possess the basic theories of Performance 

• know the different types and functions of Performance 

• approach / understand the different aspects of Performance both theoretically and through practical artistic applications.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (2 hours)

1. Introduction and presentation of the course
2. What is Performance? 
3. Emergence and evolution of Performance Studies
4. Performance and Ritual I. Basic concepts
5. Performance and Ritual II. The Theories of Durkheim and Van Gennep 
6. Performance and Ritual III. Turner's theories 
7. Performance and Ritual IV. Schechner's theories
8. Performativity
9. Disguise and transformation. A cultural history 
10. Performance and play: the basic theories of play 
11. Presentations of group projects
12. Presentations of group projects
13. Course overview

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (1 hour)

1. Introduction and presentation of the course
2. Experiential workshop: what is Performance I?
3. Experiential workshop: what is Performance II?
4. Performance and ritual: practical applications I
5. Performance and ritual: practical applications II
6. Performance and ritual: practical applications III
7. Performance and ritual: practical applications IV
8. Workshop of practical applications: space, body, senses
9. Practical Applications Workshop: the concept of transformation
10. Performance and play: practical applications
11. Presentations of group projects 
12. Presentations of group projects 
13. Presentations of group projects 

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Participation in the course (20%)
• Oral Presentation (30%)
• Written Exams (50%)

• Face-to-face
• Use of PowerPoint and audio-visual examples (13 lectures)
• Support the learning process through eClass with weekly provision of audiovisual material, links, photos, additional literature and related information

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/PDA138/ 

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Agrafiotis, D. (2022) Performance. Athens: Kapolas K. Pagonas Publications
• Schechner, R. (2010). The theory of Performance. Athens: Maria Parikou & Co Publications
• Andreadis, I. (2020) Performance. Athens: Kapa Publications
• Carlson, M. (2014). Performance. A Critical Introduction, E. Raptou (trans.), Athens: Papazisis Publications
• Rigopoulou, P. (2003) The Body: Supplication and Threat. Athens: Plethron Publications.

Extra Bibliography

• Turner, V. 2015. From ritual to theater. The human gravity of play, F. Terzakis (trans.), Athens: Eridanos

• Kaprow, A. 2003. Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life. Berkeley: University of California Press

• Read, A. 1993. Performance and Everyday Life. London: Routledge

• Schechner, R. 1985. “Points of Contact Between Anthropological and Theatrical Thought”, Between Theatre and Anthropology. Philadelphia, USA: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 3-34. 

• Schechner, R. & Appel, W. (eds). 1990. By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual. Cambridge: Cambridge UP

• Schechner, R. 2008. Performance Theory, 3^rd ed. London: Routledge

• Schechner, R. 2013. Performance Studies: An Introduction, 3^rd ed. London; New York: Routledge

• Turner, V. 1982. From Ritual to Theater: The Human Seriousness of Play. Baltimore, MD: PAJ Press

• Turner, V. W. 1969. The ritual process: structure and anti-structure. Chicago: Aldine Pub. Co.