August 15, 7:30 PM
Admission is free of charge, lecture is delivered in Russian. Attendees must register in advance (link in Russian).
Performance theory and practice lectures
Curators: Marina Israilova, independent researcher, curator, Anna Kozonina, researcher and contemporary dance critic.
The academic study of performance is a field of knowledge which eschews rigid frameworks and definitions, primarily because the very word “performance” exists in a range of disciplines and is understood in different ways. Today, its interdisciplinary links extend from theatre studies and the history of dance to ethnography and anthropology, from linguistics and philosophy to physics, from sociology and political studies to gender studies.
This course of lectures will focus on performance as an art form, studied in a broad context. Practice, as well as theory, will be included in the course: documented and “live” performances, artistic interventions and situations which reveal the performance-related character of everyday behaviour.
