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Center for World Performance Studies (CWPS)

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Wrapping up the Fall, 2023 Festival of Asian Music

Reaching more than 1000 attendees—the U-M Festival of Asian Music is a gateway to traditional Asian music and new fusions, art & theatre, visual spectacle, and iconic aesthetics.

West African Drum & Dance course returning Winter 2024

T. Ayo Alston, from Chicago's Ayodele Drum & Dance will return to teach West African Drum & Dance during Winter 2024. Combining both drum and dance into one course, students will learn the techniques, terminology, and histories of both traditions...

The Center for World Performance Studies seeks to create intellectual and physical space for the study of performance. Our aim is to advocate for performance as a mode of research and as a means of public engagement, centering on underrepresented, non-Western, and diasporic voices, bodies, and acts. We connect—both locally and globally—students, faculty, artists, thinkers, and scholars in order to educate each other about Performance Studies and to promote interdisciplinary and intersectional insights and research methodologies.

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