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1.00 Credits
A beginning class in acting technique with emphasis on improvisation, movement, voice, text analysis, and realistic scene studies. ARTS, Fall and Spring semesters.
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1.00 Credits
This course is an intensive four-week play production workshop culminating in performances in February. The play is selected annually and is part of the production season of the Theatre and Dance Department. In alternate years, the play is a musical produced in conjunction with the Department of Music. The daily schedule may include some combination of acting, singing, dance, or instrumental rehearsals as well as scenery and costume construction. Performers and musicians may also be assigned to production crews. There will be opportunities to discuss the work as it progresses with the directors and designers to gain insight into the theatrical process. Students wishing to perform must audition in late October or early November. Limited spaces are available for students interested only in working on the technical crews. Such students must interview with the Technical Director in October or November. January Interim.
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0.50 Credits
This course provides an introduction to the basic styles and dynamics of jazz dance for the student who has had no previous dance training. Students acquire a movement vocabulary within the jazz idiom while developing greater efficiency and ease of movement through proper body alignment. The course emphasizes the isolation of individual body parts and a diversity of rhythmic patterns, and also focuses on the integral role that jazz dance has played in theatre. ARTS, Spring semester, odd years.
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3.00 Credits
111, 211, 311 Scenery/Props Practicum 112, 212, 312 Lighting/Sound Practicum 113, 213, 313 Costume Practicum 115, 215 Stage Management Practicum 117 Dance Repertory Practicum 216, 316 Theatre in the Community Practicum 314 Directing Practicum
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3.00 Credits
These courses provide the student with practical experience in performance or technical production. May be repeated for credit. Permission of instructor is required. Offered annually or by arrangement.
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1.00 Credits
This course is an introductory survey of the major historical, social, and aesthetic movements that have shaped the development of theatre and dramatic literature from antiquity to the present. We will discuss how relevant theoretical and historical texts have been constructed within the context of artistic production in various geographies across time. In addition to reading plays, students will analyze significant contributions of historians, theoreticians, artists, and critics, and their significance to both theatre practice and reception. HIPHI, Fall semester, even years.
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0.50 Credits
This course is designed as an entry-level class for students with 1-3 years previous ballet training and for students who have completed T/D-104 and wish to continue their studies of classical ballet theory and technique. Key concepts for the course include: an introduction to ballet theory and history, alignment and anatomy for the dancer, and the development and articulation of informed criteria with which to evaluate and improve his or her performance and critically discuss ballet in relation to other arts. May be repeated for credit. ARTS, Fall and Spring semesters.
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1.00 Credits
Students will engage with both the technique and theory behind theatre for social justice performance. Studio work will focus on key elements of improvisation and theatre devising-creating original scenes and monologues. The class will practice exercises from Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, and will read, research, and write about the different ways theatre has been used to give expression to disempowered voices in a society. Especially recommended, but not limited to, students interested in participating in the Gustavus social justice theatre troupe, "I Am.We Are." ARTS, Fall semest
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0.50 - 1.00 Credits
Study of special problems or areas in theatre or dance research, individual and/or group projects, seminar reports, and discussion. Topics to be announced annually. May be repeated for credit. Permission of instructor required.
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1.00 Credits
This course provides a deeper understanding of techniques and concepts employed in producing theatre and dance performances. Creative problem-solving, artistic collaboration, independent research, and development are supported in the course. The craft component of the course will provide hands-on learning, instrumentation, hanging, focusing, recording, and editing techniques. The lighting and sound design portion explores play analysis, research, rendering, and presentation techniques, as well as basic equipment use and programming, and will culminate in a comprehensive project. Spring semester, even years.
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