The Studio in the Seminar: Performing Theory in an MFA Classroom

This article describes an "Introduction to Performance Theory" course that the authors co-teach MFA students at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Through semester, we track genealogies of performance studies, highlighting ways which our interdiscipline has been incorporated as academic field while still remaining sensationally unsettled its interventions, methods, and objects analysis. The focus this is on have tailored a theory serve students—artists makers across genre discipline. offers syllabus ten practice-based assignments illustrate how encourage artists class engage with critical studies scholarship embodied way. Bringing studio into seminar, stage experiments related each week’s readings. Our accompanied by reflection co-teaching dynamic couple form itself constitutes pedagogy, enactment sociality, embodiment theory.