THEA 100A Asian Diasporic Performance in Live and Digital Space

Introduction to playscripts, theatrical production, performance art, dance, and digital media created by/representing diasporic Asians in the U.S. and beyond. Course includes close reading, analysis and discussion, games/VR, related theory/history, film/performance presentations, critical writing, and exploration of students' artistic practice. Students explore how dramatic form, genre, and platform can shape/resist stories of the Asian American experience. Additional themes explored may include: colorism, class/education, anti-Blackness, queerness, transracial adoption, ritual, and accent. (Formerly Asian Theater/Dance and Global Impacts.)