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