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  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduction to the equipment, terms, and procedures employed in the creation of scenery, lighting, and sound for the stage. Classroom exercises and field visits emphasize approaches to collaborative process and production management. - G. Winkler Prerequisites: Crew assignment optional. Enrollment limited to 12 students. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
  • 3.00 Credits

    This course provides a broad introduction to several traditions of nonwestern drama and theatrical practice, often placing recent and contemporary writing in relation to established conventions. Taking up plays and performance traditions from Asia, South Asia, and various African traditions, it may also consider the relation between elite and popular culture (adaptations of Shakespeare, for example), and between drama, theatre, and film. - P. Mustam ki General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). 3 points
  • 3.00 Credits

    This is an umbrella course whose offerings will change each year. Some are narrow, some broad; all are designed with four objectives in common: a. To focus on a particular genre, playwright, or approach to live performance. b. To combine theory and practice. Each class will have an ongoing balance of academic and on one's-feet work throughout the term. Homework assignments will include scene preparation, reading, research, and both individual and group projects. c. To explore the social and political context of the work at hand. d. To realize the integration required in all acting: ultimately, this is an acting course, and the end goal is what happens on stage. The acting lab courses are intentionally non-sequential. Students come to the study of acting with widely varying talents and backgrounds. The mix of levels enriches the collaborative experience and offers greater flexibility for students. No more than six courses can be taken from the Acting Lab/Advanced Acting Lab offerings during a student's Barnard career. Auditions are required for all Acting Labs and will take place the first two evenings of each semester. Please check with the Theatre Department office for specific offerings and audition sign-up. Courses will rotate regularly and may include the following: Acting Solo Performance Physical and vocal techniques for solo performance. Selection and performance of classic and modern texts, development of original material suitable to each student. Acting Improvisation Students will develop skills for ensemble work through improvisation, transformation, storytelling, and scene creation. Acting Commedia dell'arte A practical approach to the comedy of class conflict, both classic and modern, based primarily on the techniques and characters of commedia dell'arte.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Special problems of performance. In-class scene work, extensive outside research, rehearsals, and reading. - R. Guy Prerequisites: Preference given to juniors and seniors. Enrollment limited to 14 students. Audition required. 3 points
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students take part in the full production of a play as actors, designers, dramaturgs, or stage managers. Emphasizes the collaborative nature of production. Appropriate research and reading will be required in addition to artistic assignments. - M. Banta, G. Cherniakhovsky, K. Feely, S. Fogarty, S. Goldmark, W. McAdams, H. Worthen Prerequisites: A studio course, subject to the cap on studio credit. Can be taken more than once for credit, usually up to a maximum of 3 credits a semester. Will be graded. Students not wishing to take this course for credit may participate fully in departmental productions with the permission of the instructors. 1-3 points.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Course studies the art and practice of designing sound and scoring music for dramatic performance. Students study the relationship between concert and incidental music, and read plays toward the production of a score for live theatre. Students also read broadly in the fields of sound, music, acoustics, and the cultural analysis of sound as a component of performance. Background in music or composition not essential. - F. Patton General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
  • 3.00 Credits

    A studio course exploring designing costumes for the stage. Students become familiar with textual and character analysis, research, sketching and rendering, swatching and introductory costume history. - S. Goldmark 3 points
  • 3.00 Credits

    Focuses on both the technical and creative aspects of theatrical lighting design. Students will learn the role of lighting within the larger design and performance collaboration through individual and group projects, readings, hands-on workshops, and critique of actual designs. - B. Adams Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduction to designing for the theatre. The course will focus on set design, developing skills in script analysis, sketching, model making, storyboarding and design presentation. Some investigation into theatre architecture, scenic techniques and materials, and costume and lighting design. - S. Goldmark Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 12 students. 3 points
  • 3.00 Credits

    Visual interpretation of script and character through costume and mask construction, drawing, painting, and sculpting. Final project based on design and performance of Medieval and Renaissance texts. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 14 students. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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