MU 690A

Collaboration & Performance

This course provides an introduction to collaborative and curational musicianship skills. The course is conceived in four modules each designed to provide students with practice creating content for imagined programs. Collaborative skills include recognizing the differences between occupying/inhabiting/reclaiming space, 'being present’, honouring the authentic self, taking risks, and the right to a brave/safe space. Curational skills include addressing and redressing content to reflect societal realities, venue, and function; addressing and re-dressing content through source, voice, story, narrative, meaning, and audience; exploring dramatic elements of space, embodiment, movement, and interpretation; and intersections with visuals and mixed media, multi-dimensionality, disciplinary and interdisciplinary trends. Students will also co-devise a Code of Conduct for best practices.