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Feb 19, 2025
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THEA089A PO - Transatlantic Conversations: Creating TogetherWhen Offered: One-time only; fall 2015.
Instructor(s): J. Lu and D. Assimwe
Credit: 1
How does the persistent portrayal of “Africa” and the “African Diasporic” by people in these locations, as well as by dominant Western media, create certain relationships between “blackness,” “whiteness” and “otherness” in the global imaginary? And how do these ideas influence our perceptions and frame our prejudices about subjects unfamiliar to ourselves? This course features special guest Deborah Asiimwe, an award winning theatre artist of Uganda whose work calls attention to the ethics of transnational flows and “exchange.” Asiimwe will lead students in a process of developing an original performance piece as a means of engaging questions about “otherness” in relation to identity, race, color, nationality, class and gender. She will also share performance methods that have roots in Ugandan storytelling and other performance rituals. When she arrives in the fifth week of the semester, an additional three-hour laboratory will be added one evening per week to prepare for the final public performance that will take place at the end of the semester. No prior performance experience is required and students from all disciplines are encouraged to participate. Engagement in the final performance may be as an actor, a musician, a dramaturg, a stage manager, or another role that we imagine together.
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