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The Performance and Performance Studies Minor is a home for students who are interested in the performing arts and embodied research.

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The Performance and Performance Studies Minor is designed for students who want to incorporate performance perspectives into their primary art/design/architecture/writing practice and to learn new ways of understanding how all kinds of performance – from theater, media, and music to everyday life performances – affect how we see and engage the world. The minor involves two required courses and three electives; it may be declared at any time. 


Minor Coordinators
Karin Shankar
kshankar@pratt.edu
718.636.3790

Julia Steinmetz
jstein34@pratt.edu
718.636.379

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  • Queer Archives. Prof. Dalia Davoudi.
Thursdays, 2:00 - 4:50pm.
  • Introduction to French I, Fall 2025, Prof. Katherine Billingsley, 2 sections: MW 9:30 to 10:50 am and MW  11:00 am to 12:20 pm.
  • On Tuesday, 3/25, Karin Shankar’s Introduction to Performance Studies class went to watch “Sumo” at The Public Theater, a play by Lisa Sanaye Dring, co-produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company and La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Ralph B. Peña. The play presented a range of themes and questions central to Prof. Shankar’s class this semester. These themes included: sport, ritual, Non-Western performance traditions, performance and nation, and performances of masculinity. The play was a visually stunning piece of theatre, including live demonstrations of Sumo, Taiko drumming, multimedia projections, and stage combat: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2425/sumo/
  • Karin Shankar’s “Postcoloniality and Aesthetics” class went on a field trip to watch Pulitzer Prize-winning play “English” by Iranian-American playwright Sanaz Toosi, at the Todd Haimes Theatre. The play deals with the politics of foreign language learning, translation, accented English, exile, displacement, and being strangers (and friends) in a strange language. The production was directed by Knud Adams.
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Queer Archives. Prof. Dalia Davoudi.
Thursdays, 2:00 - 4:50pm.
Queer Archives. Prof. Dalia Davoudi. Thursdays, 2:00 - 4:50pm.
2 months ago
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Introduction to French I, Fall 2025, Prof. Katherine Billingsley, 2 sections: MW 9:30 to 10:50 am and MW  11:00 am to 12:20 pm.
Introduction to French I, Fall 2025, Prof. Katherine Billingsley, 2 sections: MW 9:30 to 10:50 am and MW  11:00 am to 12:20 pm.
Introduction to French I, Fall 2025, Prof. Katherine Billingsley, 2 sections: MW 9:30 to 10:50 am and MW 11:00 am to 12:20 pm.
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On Tuesday, 3/25, Karin Shankar’s Introduction to Performance Studies class went to watch “Sumo” at The Public Theater, a play by Lisa Sanaye Dring, co-produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company and La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Ralph B. Peña. The play presented a range of themes and questions central to Prof. Shankar’s class this semester. These themes included: sport, ritual, Non-Western performance traditions, performance and nation, and performances of masculinity. The play was a visually stunning piece of theatre, including live demonstrations of Sumo, Taiko drumming, multimedia projections, and stage combat: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2425/sumo/
On Tuesday, 3/25, Karin Shankar’s Introduction to Performance Studies class went to watch “Sumo” at The Public Theater, a play by Lisa Sanaye Dring, co-produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company and La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Ralph B. Peña. The play presented a range of themes and questions central to Prof. Shankar’s class this semester. These themes included: sport, ritual, Non-Western performance traditions, performance and nation, and performances of masculinity. The play was a visually stunning piece of theatre, including live demonstrations of Sumo, Taiko drumming, multimedia projections, and stage combat: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2425/sumo/
On Tuesday, 3/25, Karin Shankar’s Introduction to Performance Studies class went to watch “Sumo” at The Public Theater, a play by Lisa Sanaye Dring, co-produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company and La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Ralph B. Peña. The play presented a range of themes and questions central to Prof. Shankar’s class this semester. These themes included: sport, ritual, Non-Western performance traditions, performance and nation, and performances of masculinity. The play was a visually stunning piece of theatre, including live demonstrations of Sumo, Taiko drumming, multimedia projections, and stage combat: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2425/sumo/
On Tuesday, 3/25, Karin Shankar’s Introduction to Performance Studies class went to watch “Sumo” at The Public Theater, a play by Lisa Sanaye Dring, co-produced by Ma-Yi Theater Company and La Jolla Playhouse, directed by Ralph B. Peña. The play presented a range of themes and questions central to Prof. Shankar’s class this semester. These themes included: sport, ritual, Non-Western performance traditions, performance and nation, and performances of masculinity. The play was a visually stunning piece of theatre, including live demonstrations of Sumo, Taiko drumming, multimedia projections, and stage combat: https://publictheater.org/productions/season/2425/sumo/
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Karin Shankar’s “Postcoloniality and Aesthetics” class went on a field trip to watch Pulitzer Prize-winning play “English” by Iranian-American playwright Sanaz Toosi, at the Todd Haimes Theatre. The play deals with the politics of foreign language learning, translation, accented English, exile, displacement, and being strangers (and friends) in a strange language. The production was directed by Knud Adams.
Karin Shankar’s “Postcoloniality and Aesthetics” class went on a field trip to watch Pulitzer Prize-winning play “English” by Iranian-American playwright Sanaz Toosi, at the Todd Haimes Theatre. The play deals with the politics of foreign language learning, translation, accented English, exile, displacement, and being strangers (and friends) in a strange language. The production was directed by Knud Adams.
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