夏威夷马诺阿大学的表演研究虽然位于戏剧和舞蹈系内，但却是一个混合课程，与其他UHM系在课程设置，研究和艺术合作方面相交。表演研究课程取材于戏剧和舞蹈系内的各个领域（亚洲剧院，夏威夷剧院，舞蹈，数字媒体，表演理论，世界舞蹈和戏剧形式）以及其他UHM计划，例如创意学院媒体，人类学，艺术，传播学，民族音乐学和哲学（仅举几例）。在艺术，人文科学和社会科学领域，跨学科的表现变化的词汇量的增加与跨界，过程，即兴创作，即兴，偶发事件，多重身份以及田野调查和研究的具体本质的日益广泛的欣赏密切相关。研究。在理论与实践，媒体
Performance Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, though situated within the Department of Theatre and Dance, is a hybrid program that intersects with other UHM departments as regards course offerings as well as research and artistic collaboration. The Performance Studies curriculum draws from various established fields within the Department of Theatre and Dance (Asian Theatre, Hawaiian Theatre, Dance, Digital Media, Performance Theory, World Dance and Theatre forms) as well as from other UHM programs such as the Academy of Creative Media, Anthropology, Art, Communicology, Ethnomusicology, and Philosophy (to name only a few). The rise of performance-inflected vocabulary across academic disciplines in the arts, humanities, and social sciences is strongly related to an increasingly wide-spread appreciation for border-crossings, processes, improvisations, contingencies, multiple identities, and the embodied nature of fieldwork and research. Working at the intersections of theory and practice, media and the body, tradition and innovation, the local and the global, the Performance Studies program at UHM is anchored in its geographic location in the mid-Pacific.