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Modern Dance is a studio course exploring creativity, designed to introduce beginning and intermediate dancers to the rudimentary principles of Modern Dance. The course incorporates movements with other disciplines, focusing not only on dance technique but also beginning choreography. Students meet once a week for three hours, participating in warm up and floor exercises, and making beginning dances.
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This is a course designed to introduce the student to the major dramatic writers from the 19th century to the present. In studying the plays, a number of different points of view and reference will be considered including that of the playwright, the actor, the director, the historian, the dramaturge. The student is encouraged to formulate a personal opinion of these plays and dramatists. The major focus of the course is the text and the student's understanding and interpretation of the work. However, a strong emphasis will also be placed on the performance aspect of these plays. This can take many forms, including coordination of our efforts with theatre classes on campus, field trips to theatres nearby, use of video, and even staged readings of the scripts in class. Fulfills the Verbal Expression requirement. You must have been placed at the Verbal Expression level to choose this seminar.
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A conceptual approach to acting theory and its application. Student develops a greater understanding of script analysis, characterization, style and the relationship of the actor to the audience. A basic course for all students who intend to continue in acting and directing, and a prerequisite for TA 213 - Studio and TA 219 - Directing Seminar. Limited to 15 students
Prerequisite:
TA 112.
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A scene-study course applying the methods, theories and approaches discussed in Actor as Thinker to working on stage, film and video. Students are required to present several scenes of different periods and styles for discussion, critical written review and further development by classmates and director. Content varies each time the course is taught. May be repeated for credit. Lab and crew hours are required. Prerequisite: TA 212.
Prerequisite:
TA 212.
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This course explores the many duties of a stage manager. Many different skill sets are presented and analyzed including managing rehearsals, working with actors, directors, and designers. Students also gain experience at managing the performances on stage while working box office and front of house staff. Students may be assigned work on a V&PA production.
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Introduces the principles of directing for the stage through theory, practical application and discussion. Students study problems of interpretation and concept; the role of the director as creative and interpretive artist; and relationship to designer, stage manager and actors. Additional lab time is required. Prerequisite: TA 213 and instructor permission.
Prerequisite:
TA 213 and instructor permission.
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Students learn basic techniques of stagecraft including dialogue and character development, as well as dramatic structure and the technical elements of a play. Students will write every week and complete assignments to be read in class.
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Undergraduates, typically juniors & seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved & directed by a facutly member.
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The purpose of this seminar is to introduce students to theories, debates and practical strategies regarding the development of urban communities. Students gain an enhanced understanding of the complexities inherent to the concepts of community and participation. They critically analyze “community” as a set of social relations, as a local economy, as a built environment, and as a political organization. Students begin to recognize the importance of race, gender, age, class, identity, and culture in working with communities. Finally, they examine the roles and effectiveness of the methods, models and strategies used by informal neighborhood organizations, banks, private developers, local nonprofits, and government agencies in rebuilding communities and their economies. Case examples and articles from across the United States will be used. Worcester's neighborhoods—which provide excellent examples of physical, social, and economic development strategies—will be highlighted throughout this course. Worcester's Piedmont and Main South neighborhoods will be a particular focus throughout the semester.
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In this course we will explore the ways in which ideas about femininity and masculinity have shaped women's lives—-locally and globally, in the present and historically—-and how some women have challenged, even transformed, those meanings and the social relationships that flow from those two potent ideas. Among the topics that may be considered are: beauty, war, sports, politics, women's movements, sexuality, race, work, violence, fashion, family, globalization, feminism, creativity, religion, media and girlhood. This course is open to all students in all majors. Prerequisite: No prerequisites.
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No prerequisites.
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