Performance, Presentation, and Identity

This course will examine identity in performance
and presentation through the lens of
code-switching, colonialism, systemic erasure,
forced migration, resistence and liberation.
Students will create characters based off of their
cultural background and imagine how they could
exist in the future via costumes, movement,
integrated media, and character development.
Notions of time and time-travel will be
experimented with under the umbrellas of
Afrofuturism/Retro-Afrofuturism, mythology,
sci-fi, and spiritualism. This course is open to
the Institute.