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Apr 16, 2026
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CNX 128 - Solo Performance Art
Description
This course will consider the poetics and politics of solo performance. We will contemplate the spectacle of a lone individual on stage and the ways in which his or her singularity produces a specific mode of theatricality. The course’s practical focus will be split between writing/theorizing on solo performance and the creation of original performance pieces. Three distinct methodological approaches will be surveyed, through an examination of performance artists Danny Hoch, Anna Deavere Smith, and Spalding Gray, with the occasion of solo performance allowing us to entertain larger theoretical issues and concerns about the production of subjectivity. Issues of race, gender, and sexuality will also animate our readings and discussions. Our practical and theoretical discussions of these three models will serve to inform the original solo performance writing and practice created in the class itself. Using storytelling, gender deconstruction, automatic writing, and various actorly/writerly tools, each student will create three 8-minute solo performance pieces, to be performed before an audience of the class itself. Critical and analytical writing on the form is an equally significant part of the course.
Credits: 1
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