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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Techniques for scene rehearsal and performance emphasizing essential principles of acting learned in the first year. Students work toward a fuller and freer use of themselves in the continued emphasis of process over results. In addition, the techniques of Michael Chekov are introduced to help actors incorporate bolder imaginative choices, more dynamic physicality, and greater emotional commitment in their characterizations. The techniques of Sanford Meisner are introduced to help students to develop spontaneity, 'in-the-moment' honest, responsiveactions to their scene partners' choices, and to develop truthful, active listening within a scene. Prerequisites: TH112 and TH114. 4 hours weekly; 2.5 credits
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4.00 Credits
Viewpoints is an improvisation methodology that focuses on the actor and the body. It works to develop a sense of awareness of an individual's shape, time, space, composition, and spatial arrangement while working with an ensemble. Created by Mary Overlie in the 1970's as a vocabulary for dancers, stage directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau expanded the six original Viewpoints to address the challenges facing acting for the theater. The second semester deals with integration and isolation of the original and expanded Viewpoints, as applied to text and original projects, as well as an introduction to Vocal Viewpoints. 1.5 hours weekly; 1 credit
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4.00 Credits
The development of students as individual performers concentrating on song interpretation using acting techniques. Vocal and movement styles of American musical theater and popular culture are taught. Prerequisites: TH131 or permission. 5 hours weekly; 2.5 credits
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2.00 Credits
Hands-on exploration of music skills and concepts beyond the written page and application of these skills and concepts to the music we hear, perform, and create. 2 hours weekly; 1 credit
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4.00 Credits
Intermediate and advanced techniques of voice and diction, concentrating on the methodologies developed by Catherine Fitzmaurice. Prerequisites: TH142 or permission. 2.5 hours weekly; 1.5 credits
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3.00 Credits
A theatrical approach to selected plays through close readings of the script and discussions of meaning and staging. {eliminate- The histories and comedies are covered in the first semester, the tragedies and problem plays in the second.)The premise of the course is that Shakespeare is a contemporary playwright, not a writer of historical literature. Open to students from all divisions and available as a liberal arts elective for students majoring in Dance or Music. Eliminate-Each semester independent of the other. Mid-term exam and final exam. 3 hours weekly; 3 credits
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6.00 Credits
Continued development of acting techniques: concentration upon working in period plays from Ancient Greece to the 19th Century. Emphasis on characterization, interplaying, internal and external projection. Prerequisite: TH212 or permission. 4 hours weekly; 2.5 credits
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2.00 Credits
Basic principles of truthful acting. The course moves from foundation exercises to experience with monologues and scene work. Required of undergraduate Vocal Performance majors and graduate Opera majors; available as an elective to graduate majors in Vocal Performance. 4 hours weekly; 2 credits
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6.00 Credits
Further development of musicianship and refinement in performance, the combination of vocal and acting skills with the development of character in musical play scene work, including both song and dialogue within the fictional environment of the play, continuing experience in American musical theater styles and the European styles that influenced them. Prerequisites: TH231 or permission. 4 hours weekly; 2.5 credits
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2.00 Credits
Advanced exploration and practice of music skills and concepts, geared to the specific needs of the students of the class. 2 hours weekly; 1 credit
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