Subject Area: Theatre & Performance Studies<br/>This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: Dance Studies; Media, Culture and Technology<br/><br/>'Reading Performance', one of the two core Level 1 courses in the Theatre and Performance Studies Major, offers an introduction to the exciting emergent discipline of Performance Studies. This course looks at a wide range of human activities through the idea of 'performance', from mundane everyday rituals to extra-ordinary theatre, film, video and dance practices. It presents different ways of theorising, analysing and interpreting a broad spectrum of cultural behaviours - whether they occur on the stage or on the... -- Course Website