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Performance studies

Performance studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that teaches the development of performance skills and uses performance as a lens and a tool to study the world. The term performance is broad, and can include artistic and aesthetic performances like concerts, theatrical events, and performance art; sporting events; social, political and…

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Performance studies

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related to Elocution · 24
Performance studies → Another, Department, Elements, Elocution, Elocution Movement, England, In, Interpretation, John Walker, Lectures, Most, Northwestern University School, One, Oratory, Reading, Robert McLean Cumnock, Sheridan's, The, The Elocution Movement, The School
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Performance studies → Cynthia Wimmer's Teaching Performance, Department, For, Generally, Interpretation, Nathan Stucky, Northwestern, Northwestern University, NYU, Performance, Professing Performance, Shannon Jackson's, Shortly, Studies, The
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Performance studies → According, As, Diana Taylor, In, Performance, Scholars, Some, There
related to Other fields · 7
Performance studies → André Lepecki, José Esteban Muñoz, Patrick Johnson, Peggy Phelan, Performance, Rebecca Schneider, Theorists
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Performance studies → interdisciplinary academic field that teaches the development of performance skills and uses performance as a lens and a tool to study the world

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Performance studiesis ainterdisciplinary academic field that teaches the development of performance skills and uses performance as a lens and a tool to study the world0.90text
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theatreinstance ofScholars in today's field of performance studies may trace their roots to a number of other fields0.80text
anthropologyinstance ofScholars in today's field of performance studies may trace their roots to a number of other fields0.80text
and speech communicationinstance ofScholars in today's field of performance studies may trace their roots to a number of other fields0.80text
paradesinstance ofrituals0.80text
religious ceremoniesinstance ofrituals0.80text
community festivalsinstance ofrituals0.80text
controversial storytellinginstance ofrituals0.80text
and performances of socialinstance ofrituals0.80text
professional rolesinstance ofrituals0.80text

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