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4.00 Credits
Theater majors and prospective majors are required to perform out-of-class work and take part in activities that broaden their understanding and appreciation of all areas of theater. By designing for productions and working on costume, scenery, lighting, sound, and other crews, they interact with theater professionals and receive invaluable hands-on training in the technical aspects of making theater. This practical applied work is required for Moderation into the program. The course meets weekly for discussion, planning, and problem-solving with the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
In this course, students familiarize themselves with the theater of Russia and the works of Andrei Bely in preparation for collaborative work with students at Smolny College in St. Petersburg, where they rehearse and perform a new theatrical adaptation of Bely's novel, Petersburg, during a five-week summer program. Students are required to enroll in a non-creditbearing Russian intensive prior to the class and follow up with a credit-bearing Russian intensive program. Enrollment is limited to 10 by interview and audition.
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2.00 Credits
Masks are a product of diverse traditions, including those of the Balinese, and of great teachers and theorists, such as Fran?ois Delsarte, Jacques Lecoq, and Michel Sainte Denis. These two courses are intended to be taken in sequence, starting with Neutral Mask, in which students use expressionless masks in order to identify physical elements that contribute to a range of characters and physical expressions. In Character Mask, working with masks that have stylized and recognizable expressions leads student actors to a "liberation behind the mask"-thdevelopment of character in the body and in the story of the person behind the mask. Prerequisite: Theater 101.
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2.00 Credits
Masks are a product of diverse traditions, including those of the Balinese, and of great teachers and theorists, such as Fran?ois Delsarte, Jacques Lecoq, and Michel Sainte Denis. These two courses are intended to be taken in sequence, starting with Neutral Mask, in which students use expressionless masks in order to identify physical elements that contribute to a range of characters and physical expressions. In Character Mask, working with masks that have stylized and recognizable expressions leads student actors to a "liberation behind the mask"-thdevelopment of character in the body and in the story of the person behind the mask. Prerequisite: Theater 101.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies A survey of American theater from the post- Revolutionary era through the 20th century that addresses the vigorous responses of select playwrights to complex social and historical questions, and examines how, within an often commercial medium, they crafted visions of American life. Playwrights include Edward Albee, Dion Boucicault, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Royall Tyler, Tennessee Williams, and August Wilson.
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4.00 Credits
Integrated Arts This workshop creates unique theatrical experiences inspired by sites on and around the Bard campus. Through a series of weekly assignments, students focus on the kinetics, space, sound, history, poetry, and uniqueness of particular sites as they script, direct, choreograph, perform in, and critique each others' works. Admission by permission of the instructor.
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4.00 Credits
Verse is a significant part of drama, and learning to interpret and speak it is essential for the performer. This course deals with verse from the great poets and dramatists. Prerequisite: Theater 131.
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4.00 Credits
Adapting classic and contemporary fiction or biographies to a theatrical form is a creative process that integrates the original intention of the material with the writer's imagination. It is an exciting collaboration between two writers, though only one is writing the script. Adaptations have an important place in all storytelling fields-musicals, plays, television shows, and movies. Students read examples of successfully adapted scripts and examine different approaches and styles of writing. They adapt several short stories into short plays and choose a significant person in history, research his or her biographical information, and write a play based on his or her life. Prerequiste: at least one introductory writing workshop.
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2.00 Credits
This two-semester course covers the practice of directing: text analysis, "table work," imaginingthe world of the play, design, casting, space, rehearsal, and blocking in different configurations. The class proceeds from work on scenes to a full-length work for public presentation.
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4.00 Credits
A performance-oriented course in which students create works of drama derived from both literature and popular culture. Extensive reading and viewing of classical and modern texts and film provide the basis for exploration of various methods of presenting contemporary drama. Groups delve into collaborative research and development of new work, and the course culminates in a series of public performances. Prerequisite: any previous advanced scene study class or permission of the instructor.
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