Northwestern’s Performance Studies BS reimagines ‘performance’ beyond the stage—examining protest marches, TikTok dances, courtroom rituals, and corporate branding as embodied communication. Courses mix critical theory with studio experimentation, culminating in ethnographic fieldwork and original performance pieces. Students collaborate with Chicago cultural organizations to produce site-specific works that interrogate social justice, identity, and technology. Alumni become museum curators, cultural critics, UX storytellers, and dramaturgs equipped to analyze and craft meaning-making events in diverse contexts.
Choreograph a data-visualization performance translating housing eviction statistics
Document protest-chant evolution during social movements through sound mapping
Curate a living exhibit on work-from-home rituals using participatory performance
Analyze courtroom gestural rhetoric and its influence on jury perception
Produce a verbatim theatre piece from climate-change refugee testimonies
Examine algorithmic dance trends on TikTok as participatory culture
Design an AR app overlaying historical labor strikes onto present urban sites
Conduct auto-ethnography on cosplay conventions as identity performance
Research corporate annual-meeting theatrics and shareholder engagement metrics
Create a multisensory installation reimagining grocery shopping as ritual performance
Evaluate the therapeutic role of playback theatre in hospital settings
Compare spatial dramaturgies of megachurch services and music festivals
Develop a performance-lecture interrogating AI-generated poetry authenticity
Write a field report on sports fan choreography and collective emotion
Design a mobile workshop teaching embodied listening for conflict mediation
Interrogate and create performance across society with Northwestern’s innovative program.
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