THE WORLD PERFORMANCE PROJECT (WPP) promotes programs in performance studies across departments at Yale. An interdiscipline that draws from the arts, humanities, and human sciences (theater, drama, dance, visual arts, speech, linguistics, anthropology, sociology), performance studies defines as its objects cultural performances of all kinds, from theatrical presentations to rites of passage, and expands its frontiers anywhere significant performances are likely to take place, from Yorubaland to Disneyland.

WPP presents performances, workshops, and lectures by artists and scholars working in dance, theater, music, performance art and cultural performance, as it assists and collaborates with departments and programs throughout the university seeking to enhance their curriculum through live performance.

Affiliated with the Yale College Theater Studies Program and the Whitney Humanities Center, WPP is supported through funding provided by the Distinguished Achievement Award granted to Joseph Roach, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Theater and English, by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

For more information about the WPP contact: wpp.info@yale.edu