{"id":16142,"date":"2026-09-01T18:49:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/?post_type=previous-courses&#038;p=16142"},"modified":"2026-09-01T19:04:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:04:45","slug":"performance-ethnography","status":"publish","type":"previous-courses","link":"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/de\/previous-courses\/summer-2026\/performance-ethnography\/","title":{"rendered":"Performance Ethnography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-a662079b\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-7b60fd04\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-e0d64d06\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-e0d64d06\">\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-7d19a5aa\">\n<h2 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-98bef43c gb-headline-text\">Performance Ethnography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-text gb-text-c8998eda\"><em>Living the Historical Rupture<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-f91c37b5 gb-headline-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#Olena_Kalashnykova-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Olena Kalashnykova<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/faculty\/#Daria_Vystavkina-anchor\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"1387\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daria Vystavkina<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-3a30ea48 gb-tabs\" data-opened-tab=\"1\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-84f8d681 gb-tabs__buttons\">\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-a79c01e0 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button gb-block-is-current\" id=\"gb-tab-button-a79c01e0\">Overview<\/button>\n\n\n\n<button class=\"gb-button gb-button-bfd101b8 gb-button-text gb-tabs__button\" id=\"gb-tab-button-bfd101b8\">Course Outline<\/button>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f59097b gb-tabs__items\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-f5c5f721 gb-tabs__item gb-tabs__item-open\" id=\"gb-tab-item-f5c5f721\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-68c7fb24 gb-headline-text\">Overview<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-c1956806\">We live in a time when wars, revolutions, political repression, and social or ecological crises can rupture the present without warning. Such ruptures disrupt familiar orientations: communities transform or disperse, identities lose their recognition, and the narratives through which we understood our past and future no longer correspond to the realities we inhabit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-635f45c9\">This course explores the question: What does it mean to live through historical rupture?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-247a8730\">Approaching this question through performance ethnography, the course uses biographical theatre as both a research method and artistic practice. Playback Theatre creates a temporary research community grounded in trust and ethical witnessing, where personal stories are transformed into improvisational performance. Documentary Theatre works with archives, testimonies, artifacts, and embodied memory to compose performances that connect individual experience with historical contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text gb-text-627ee649\">The course culminates in the development and presentation of collaborative documentary performances and a reflection on performance ethnography as a method of knowledge production.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-79414423 gb-tabs__item\" id=\"gb-tab-item-79414423\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-28db6432 gb-headline-text\">Course Outline<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"gb-text\">You can see and download the course syllabus below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-element-3120ace5\">\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Performance_Ethnography_Syllabus_SS26.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:813px\" aria-label=\"Einbettung von Performance_Ethnography_Syllabus_SS26.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-320a40ce-5735-4ed4-b660-be38ac01a36c\" href=\"https:\/\/offuniversity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Performance_Ethnography_Syllabus_SS26.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Performance_Ethnography_Syllabus_SS26<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-bc3fa32e\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-bc3fa32e\">\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-233f353f\">\n\n<h4 class=\"gb-headline gb-headline-e4125b44 gb-headline-text\">Course Details<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"gb-container gb-container-b921c8c1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-wrapper gb-grid-wrapper-70b4f9b1\">\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-203abde0\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-203abde0\">\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"gb-grid-column gb-grid-column-7f61003f\"><div class=\"gb-container gb-container-7f61003f\">\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">17.04.26 &#8211; 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