Performance studies

Performance studies is like playing pretend but with grown-ups, and it's all about understanding how people act and why they act that way when they're pretending to be someone else or performing on stage.

When you see a play or a dance performance, you're watching people who have practiced and trained to make their movements and words seem real and interesting to you. Performance studies is all about looking at how they do that, and what it means to the audience and the performers themselves.

It's like reading a really cool story, but instead of just enjoying the story, you stop to think about the characters and the emotions they might be feeling, and why the author wrote the story in the first place.

So, in performance studies, you get to learn about things like how different cultures tell stories and how a simple movement or sound can make you feel certain emotions. You might also get to experiment with your own performances and see how your own movements and words can be used to tell a story or express a feeling.

Overall, performance studies is just a fancy way of looking at all the interesting things that people do when they're pretending or performing, and trying to understand why they do it and what it means.