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This course provides instruction in dance forms including ballet, jazz, tap, modem, interpretive, and improvisational and in one or more stage movement skills such as clowning, commedia, tumbling, mask work, mime, period stylization and gesturing, and unarmed combat.
This Linklater-based course is an introduction to the care and appropriate use of the speaking voice. Students leam standard stage American and a variety of dialects and present memorized monologues.
This course is an introduction to safe and supple ways to move on stage and an investigation of techniques for actors to enhance body control. The course includes unarmed stage combat.
This course is the study of theatre for young audiences from the perspective of playwrights, actors, teachers, and designers. All students registering for this course are expected to participate in a production and to make field trips to area schools and/ or participate in workshops sponsored for area elementary school students. Students should expect some performance aspects.
This course is an introduction to stage and business management for the theatre. The course focuses on the organizational and business aspects imperative to running a successful production, including, but not limited to; running rehearsals, business contracts, working with various performance unions, budgets, season selection, and production organization. Each student is expected to participate in the departmental productions as an assistant stage manager.
This course is a study of the basic elements of set design and construction and provides practical experience in designing and building sets for performances. Twenty hours of laboratory time are required.
This course is a study of the basic elements of lighting design and practical experience in working with lighting for stage performances. Fifteen hours of laboratory are required.
Students will leam to use the software, AutoCAD, as a drafting and design tool. They will leam how to create a virtual workspace, to draft in that workspace and how to use this tool to communicate their designs. Concepts covered will include: drafting, layers, text, objects, and modifying properties, and inserting raster images. They will also leam how to plot and email their work, in order to share it with other sources. (Students are required to have access to a personal computer to which they can download the free software. Laptop computers are preferable, but not required. AutoCAD is not compatible with Macintosh computers, so a Windows based computer is necessary.)
This course is a study of the history and basic elements of costume design and provides practical experience in designing costumes for performances. Fifteen hours of laboratory are required.
This course involves reading, analyzing and discussing the work of women playwrights through Western Theatre History beginning with Hrosvitha and moving to contemporary drama. This course will look at works from European, African-American, Hispanic, Asian-American and white playwrights and will also examine how the individual’s culture also colors their perspective as a theatre artist.
