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3.00 Credits
Davis Content: Introduction to basic ballet principles, steps, and vocabulary. Correct alignment, placement, mobility; increasing flexibility, balance, strength, coordination, control. Barre warm-up, center floor and traveling combinations, general introduction to ballet history and aesthetics. Readings in related historical material; written critique of live performance. Live music accompaniment. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 2 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Davis Content: Introduction to modern and postmodern dance forms, physical techniques, and principles. Emphasis on the conceptual nature of contemporary dance since the 1960s. Movement skills and perspectives in relation to historic and aesthetic ideas that fostered them. Development of sound body mechanics, strength, flexibility, control, momentum, movement quality, musicality, personal movement resources. Viewing live and videotaped performances. Short readings on dance history and theory. Live music accompaniment. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Annually, 2 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Staff Content: Introduction to behind-the-scenes work in the theatre. Participation on production crews for all departmental productions in a given semester. Experiential learning in the scene and costume shops, on lighting and front-ofhouse crews. Introduction to the processes that transform the visions of directors and designers into realities on stage. Weekly organizational and instructional meetings, arranged work schedule, required safety orientations. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Each semester, 2 semester credits. May be repeated for up to two additional 1-credit semesters with lab-only requirements, not to exceed 4 total course credits per student.
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3.00 Credits
Arnold, Simek, Weeks Content: The fundamentals of acting, including physicalization, text analysis, objectives and actions, rehearsal techniques. Development of skills through class exercises and the rehearsal and performance of short projects and twocharacter scenes. Writing assignments including script analyses, character biographies, peer reviews, performance reviews, observation exercises, journals. Prerequisite: None. Taught: Each semester, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Davis Content: More difficult exercises for improving alignment, balance, rotation, flexibility, strength, coordination, mobility. Increased focus on quality of movement, musicality, interpretation. Barre warm-up, more extensive development of center floor and traveling combinations. Ballet history, aesthetics, criticism addressed through video and live performance viewings, readings, writing. Live music accompaniment. Prerequisite: Theatre 107 or dance experience. Taught: Annually, 2 semester credits. May be taken twice for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Davis Content: Deepening exploration of physical techniques, historic events, and aesthetic concerns that shape contemporary dance today. Kinesthetic awareness, momentum, phrasing, weight sharing, authentic gesture, basic performance skills. Exploring basic improvisation and composition skills to give form to spontaneous and intuitive movement impulses. Reading, writing, viewing live performance. Live music accompaniment. Prerequisite: Theatre 108 or consent of instructor. Taught: Annually, 2 semester credits. May be taken twice for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Davis Content: Increasing physical movement skills and deepening physical expressivity for a theatrical context. Development of balance, fluidity, strength, flexibility, stamina, coordination. Set movement exercises and improvisation to explore authentic gesture, clarity of intention, rhythmic design, awareness of three-dimensional space. Students keep journals, analyze performances, develop scenes. Live music accompaniment. Prerequisite: Theatre 113. Taught: Alternate years, 2 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Robins Content: Advanced techniques and concepts in stagecraft. Explores the second-phase design process by which a set designer's visual representations are transformed first into working drawings and construction problems, and then into material, three-dimensional forms. Classroom instruction and experiential learning in the scene shop. Emphasis on problem-solving, collaborative interpretation of design ideas, creative implementation. Prerequisite: Theatre 110 or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Arnold, Simek, Weeks Content: Rehearsal with more complex texts of realism from such playwrights as Ibsen, Chekhov, Churchill, Stoppard. Integration of voice and body work, deepening a sense of truth in emotional and intellectual expression. Actors work with instructor on individual acting problems, share research in texts and historical periods, learn how to help each other take acting explorations further. Writing: script analysis, historical research, bibliography, observations. Additional projects in movement and voice. Prerequisite: Theatre 113. Taught: Annually, 4 semester credits.
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3.00 Credits
Davis Content: Viewing of selected live dance performances in the Portland area. An exploration of the intellectual, historical, and social contexts of these performances. Development of a vocabulary for dance criticism and an understanding of the essential elements of dance choreography and performance. Readings; analysis of videotaped, filmed, and live dance performances; seminar discussion. Prerequisite: Fee (performance tickets). Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.
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