Glossary

Glossary:

Over the course of the class, we will build a glossary of techniques for staging feminist performance, taken from our readings, class discussions, and embodied provocations. These entries should be added to our shared Dropbox Paper doc. While you should not repeat entries, you are welcome to cross reference. Everyone will be assigned specific weeks to cover, so you will not write entries for every week. Entries should be 250-500 words and will define and elaborate a technique of “feminist dramaturgy.” Our class discussions will also be dedicated to identifying these strategies: you are welcome to build on a strategy discussed in class. You will also curate “performance provocations” that take up these strategies. You are also encouraged to include reflections from your provocations, as well as your peer's, in your glossary entry.

Glossary entries should, at a minimum, include the term you’ve chosen, where it appears in our readings if relevant, the date of entry, and a brief definition. The name of your strategy should be formatted as "Heading 2" in bold, and the date and definition as body text. You are welcome to add points of intersection with other glossary terms, cite texts from our syllabus, and reference our embodied discoveries in class. 

Write your entry for a popular audience. Avoid academese or jargon, use plain language and simple sentence constructions. Focus on producing a thoughtful and compelling account of your term that would be of use to practitioners (and, of course, your peers!). We will maintain this glossary in a shared document and you will pull from this list of feminist dramaturgical strategies throughout the course and set them into motion in our weekly “performance provocations.”