communication studies cultural studies performance studies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_studies https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7168264 An interdisciplinary academic field that uses performance as a lens and a tool to study the world. The term performance is broad, and can include artistic and aesthetic performances like concerts, theatrical events, and performance art; sporting events; social, political and religious events like rituals, ceremonies, proclamations and public decisions; certain kinds of language use; and those components of identity which require someone to do, rather than just be, something. performance