|
CRN |
14374 |
Distribution |
F |
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Course
No. |
THTR 101 A |
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|
Title |
Introduction
to Acting |
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|
Professor |
Naomi Thornton |
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Schedule |
Th 3:20 pm - 5:20 pm FCPA |
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2
credits Scene
preparation and beginning scene technique. Emphasis on relaxation, breathing,
and concentration. Teaching the actor to make choices and implement them using
sense memory and to integrate this work with the text. Group and individual
exercises and improvisations. Continuous work on the acting instrument
stressing freedom, spontaneity, and individual attention. Materials: poems,
monologues, stories, and scenes. Reading of American plays, 1930 to present.
|
CRN |
14375 |
Distribution |
F |
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Course
No. |
THTR 122 |
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|
Title |
Movement
for Actors |
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Professor |
Jean Churchill |
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Schedule |
Fr 11:30 am - 12:50 pm FCPA |
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1
credit Basic
training in movement, rhythm, development of technique and confidence in space.
|
CRN |
14376 |
Distribution |
F |
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Course
No. |
THTR 131 A |
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|
Title |
Voice |
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|
Professor |
Elizabeth Smith |
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|
Schedule |
Tu 10:00 am - 11:00 am FCPA Fr 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm FCPA |
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2
credits This
course develops awareness of physical equipment, natural pitch, purity of
vowels and consonants, tone, inflection, diction, agility, nuance and vocal
imagination.
|
CRN |
14377 |
Distribution |
F |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 131 B |
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|
Title |
Voice |
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|
Professor |
Elizabeth Smith |
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|
Schedule |
Tu 11:30
am - 12:30 pm FCPA Fr
10:00 am – 11:00 am
FCPA |
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2
credits This
course develops awareness of physical equipment, natural pitch, purity of
vowels and consonants, tone, inflection, diction, agility, nuance and vocal
imagination.
|
CRN |
14378 |
Distribution |
F |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 141 |
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|
Title |
Alexander
Technique |
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Professor |
Judith Youett |
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Schedule |
Mon Th 9:30 am - 11:00 am FCPA |
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1
credit A world
respected technique for body investigation, alignment, and relaxation, the
Alexander Technique is a valuable tool for performers, writers, scholars, and
artists. This is a kinesthetic reeducation that provides a means of monitoring
and eliminating self-created tension in order not to interfere with creative
process. Note: there are two ninety-minute sections, to be assigned at
registration.
|
CRN |
14379 |
Distribution |
F |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 142 |
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|
Title |
Alexander
Technique |
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|
Professor |
Judith Youett |
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|
Schedule |
Mon Th 11:10 am - 12:40 pm FCPA |
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1
credit A
continuation of the study of body investigation, alignment and relaxation, as
begun in Alexander Technique I. Note:
there are two ninety-minute sections, to be assigned at registration.
|
CRN |
14380 |
Distribution |
B/C |
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Course
No. |
THTR 206 |
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|
Title |
History
of Theater II |
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|
Professor |
Jean Wagner |
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|
Schedule |
Mon 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm FCPA |
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This course looks at the major periods of dramatic
literature, from the renaissance to the twentieth century. Plays will be read
with particular reference to historical context and dramatic convention
informing theater practice during these periods. Along with the plays, we’ll
look at critical and theoretical essays that elucidate these social and
aesthetic conditions. Playwrights will
include Moliere, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht and Beckett.
|
CRN |
14381 |
Distribution |
F |
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Course
No. |
THTR 207 A |
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|
Title |
Playwrighting
I |
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|
Professor |
Chiori Miyagawa |
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Schedule |
Wed 10:30 am - 12:50 pm FCPA |
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4
credits An
introductory course that focuses on discovering the writer’s voice. Through
writing exercises based on dreams, visual images, poetry, social issues, found
text, and music, each writer is encouraged to find his or her unique language,
style, and vision. A group project will
explore the nature of collaborative works. Students learn elements of
playwriting through writing a one-act play, reading assignments, and class
discussions.
|
CRN |
14382 |
Distribution |
F |
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Course
No. |
THTR 207 B |
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|
Title |
Playwrighting
I |
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|
Professor |
Dominic Taylor |
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|
Schedule |
Fr 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm FCPA |
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See description above.
|
CRN |
14383 |
Distribution |
F |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 208 |
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|
Title |
Playwrighting
II |
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|
Professor |
Chiori Miyagawa |
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|
Schedule |
Tu 6:30 pm - 8:50 pm FCPA |
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4
credits This
course will function as a writer’s workshop. After writing a short play,
students focus on developing a full-length play, with sections of the
work-in-progress presented in class for discussions. Students grow as
playwrights by being exposed to diverse dramatic literature and doing a short
adaptation project, either of a classic play or a short story.
Prerequisite: Playwrighting I
|
CRN |
14384 |
Distribution |
F |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 209 A |
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|
Title |
Scene
Study |
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|
Professor |
Lynn Hawley |
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Schedule |
Tu Th 10:00 am - 11:20 am FCPA |
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3
credits A course
intended for students who have taken one semester of Intro to Acting and would
like to continue their study. The course deals with a movement from a games
oriented curriculum into work with theatrical texts and discovery of the
processes of scene study.
|
CRN |
14385 |
Distribution |
F |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 209 B |
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|
Title |
Scene
Study |
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|
Professor |
Lynn Hawley |
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|
Schedule |
Tu Th 11:30 am - 12:50 pm FCPA |
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See description above.
|
CRN |
14386 |
Distribution |
F |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 215 |
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|
Title |
Physical
Comedy |
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|
Professor |
Jim Calder |
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|
Schedule |
Wed 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm FCPA |
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2
credits Beginning
with exercises in broad physicality, balance, rhythm, discovery, physical mask
and surprise, this class explores what about the individual student is unique and funny. When we begin to forget
what is an appropriate response, and imagine what we would be like if we were
never socialized, we begin to discover “the clown” that lives in each of us. By
embracing the archetypes of childhood and reclaiming the “internal response”
without the diminishing filter of socialization, we start to lose the inhibitions
that block us from being purely expressive. This class encourages openness,
invention, playfulness, generosity, sensitivity, and courage
Prerequisite: Introduction to Acting
|
CRN |
14458 |
Distribution |
F |
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Course
No. |
THTR 217 |
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|
Title |
Theater
Production Practicum |
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|
Professor |
Jeffrey Sichel |
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Schedule |
Th 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm FCPA |
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2 credits This course offers an
opportunity for theater majors to receive formal faculty supervision and credit
for work that is vital to the study of theater arts and required towards
major studies. Theater majors and
prospective theater majors are required to perform work outside of the
classroom, regular course-work, and in addition to normal homework activities
in order to broaden their understanding and appreciation of all areas of
theatrical activity. By designing for
theater productions and working on crews (costume, scenery, lighting, sound,
etc.), students will interact with professional directors, designers, stage
managers and crews, working with them in the intense crucible of theatrical
activity that surrounds all such artistic production endeavors, and they will
receive invaluable hands-on training in the technical aspects of making
theater. This practical applied work is not
only highly desired, but also required for prospective majors to moderate into
the theater department.
Professional-student relationships will be determined and administered
by the course professor. The course
will meet weekly to discuss projects, planning, and problem-solving with the
course professor. Not for work
associated with moderation or senior projects.
Repeatable for credit by special arrangement with adviser and
instructor.
Required
before moderation.
|
CRN |
14397 |
Distribution |
F |
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Course
No. |
THTR 218 |
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|
Title |
Russian
Performance Practicum |
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|
Professor |
Jeffrey Sichel |
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|
Schedule |
Th 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm FCPA |
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4
credits. This course offers an opportunity for students to
familiarize themselves with the theatre of Russia and the works of Andrei Bely
in an applied manner in preparation for collaborative work with students at
Smolny College in Russia, where they will rehearse and perform a new theatrical
adaptation of Andrei Bely’s novel Petersburg
in the summer of 2004. Readings will include plays, novels and theoretical
writings by Meyerhold, Mayakovsky, Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoyevsky and of course
Andrei Bely. Students will view videos and documentaries on and about
performances of Russian theatre and its descendant traditions. Visits from
faculty members from Smolny and Bard College will emphasize the notion of city
as text, which is the central theme of the Bely novel. Assignments will include
explorations of methods for textual adaptation and modes of textual analysis.
Students in this course will be required to enroll in a non-credit bearing Russian
intensive in January followed by a credit bearing Russian intensive program. In
the summer following the course, students will participate in a five-week
intensive program in Russia that merges the language study with the adaptation
and performance of Bely’s Petersburg.
Enrollment limited to ten students by interview and
audition.
|
CRN |
14387 |
Distribution |
F |
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Course
No. |
THTR 227 |
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|
Title |
Neutral
Masks |
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|
Professor |
Shelley Wyant |
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|
Schedule |
Wed 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm FCPA |
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2 credits The roots of masks come from a diverse system of traditions:
the Balinese, the great teachers and the theorists Michel St. Denis and Jacques
LeCoq, Francis Delsarte. Two courses are intended to be taken in sequence; in Neutral Masks, students learn to identify
physical elements that contribute to a range of characters and physical
expression.
Prerequisite: Introduction to Acting
|
CRN |
14388 |
Distribution |
F |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 228 |
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|
Title |
Character
Mask |
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|
Professor |
Shelley Wyant |
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|
Schedule |
Tu 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm FCPA |
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2
credits Students
will work with masks that have very stylized and recognizable expressions, leading the actor to a liberation behind the
mask, developing character in the body and the story of the person in the mask.
Prerequisite: THTR 227
|
CRN |
14069 |
Distribution |
B |
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Course
No. |
THTR / LIT 229 |
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|
Title |
Classics
of American Drama |
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|
Professor |
Elizabeth Frank |
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|
Schedule |
Wed Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN 202 |
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See Literature section for description.
|
CRN |
14396 |
Distribution |
F |
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Course
No. |
THTR 230 |
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|
Title |
Site
Specific Theater Wkshop. |
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|
Professor |
Jeffrey Sichel |
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Schedule |
Tu 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm FCPA |
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Cross-listed: Integrated Arts
4
credits. In this
workshop students will focus on creating unique theatrical experiences inspired
by sites on and around the Bard campus. Through a series of weekly assignments
focusing on a reaction to the kinetics, space, sound, history, poetry and
revelation of the uniqueness of particular sites, students will script, direct,
choreograph, perform in and critique each others’ works. Admission by interview with instructor.
|
CRN |
14079 |
Distribution |
B |
|
Course
No. |
LIT 2502 |
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|
Title |
Shakespearean
Tragedy |
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|
Professor |
Nancy Leonard |
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|
Schedule |
Tu Th 1:30 pm - 2:50 pm OLIN
310 |
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Cross-listed: Literature
An intensive exploration of all of Shakespeare’s
important tragedies, together with some reading from theatrical history and
criticism. We will sometimes watch a
Shakespeare film or work with a play as performers, but primarily this is a
literature course for first- and second-year students. Topics will include contemporary issues like
race and ethnicity, gender, the body, and political ethics, but historical
awareness will also be important. Plays
to be read include Romeo and Juliet,
Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra,
and Coriolanus.
|
CRN |
14389 |
Distribution |
F |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 231 |
||
|
Title |
Voice
and Verse I |
||
|
Professor |
Elizabeth Smith |
||
|
Schedule |
Fr 11:30 am - 12:50 pm FCPA |
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2
credits Verse is a
significant part of drama and learning to interpret it and speak it is
essential for the performer. This course deals with verse from the great poets
and dramatists, with an emphasis on Shakespeare.
Prerequisite: THTR 131
|
CRN |
14390 |
Distribution |
F |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 304 |
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|
Title |
Directing
Seminar |
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|
Professor |
JoAnne Akalaitis |
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|
Schedule |
Mon 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm FCPA |
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4
credits A n
advanced studio course that covers the practice of directing from text
analysis, “table work”, imagining the
world of the play, design, casting, space, rehearsal and blocking in different
configurations. The work will proceed from scenes to a full-length work for
public presentation. Dmitry Troyanovsky will join the class as the guest
director.
|
CRN |
14391 |
Distribution |
F |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 304CO |
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|
Title |
Acting
Company |
||
|
Professor |
JoAnne Akalaitis |
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|
Schedule |
Tu 10:00 am - 11:30 am |
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4
credits
Corresponding with Directing Seminar, actors work with student directors
on scene work for in-class presentation. Open to first year students.
|
CRN |
14392 |
Distribution |
F |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 307 A |
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|
Title |
Advanced
Scene Study |
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|
Professor |
James Calder |
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|
Schedule |
Wed 10:00 am - 1:00 pm FCPA |
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4
credits. The
Kinetics of Theater: Creating New Works of Visual Drama. A performance oriented course where students
will work primarily in a movement image realm while creating works of drama
derived from both Literature and popular culture. Extensive reading and viewing of classical and modern texts and
film will provide the basis for exploration of nee methods of presenting modern
drama. Groups will delve into
collaborative research and development of new work and the course will
culminate in a series of public performances. The course is open to upper
college students and will involve a vigorous schedule of research, in class
presentation, improvisation and physical work.
|
CRN |
14393 |
Distribution |
F |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 307 B |
||
|
Title |
Advanced
Scene Study |
||
|
Professor |
Naomi Thornton |
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|
Schedule |
Th 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm FCPA |
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3
credits Scene
technique with work on specific rehearsal tasks as preparation and approach to
each rehearsal and practice of their application. Continued work on the acting
instrument, understanding the actor as artist and deepening the physical,
emotional, and intellectual availability of each actor. Advanced individual
exercises, scenes, and monologues from all dramatic literature. Intended for
Upper College Theater students. Repeatable for credit.
|
CRN |
14395 |
Distribution |
B/D |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 310 A |
||
|
Title |
Survey
of Drama:Japanese Classical Theater |
||
|
Professor |
Chiori Miyagawa |
||
|
Schedule |
Tu 1:30 pm - 3:50 pm |
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Cross-listed:
Asian Studies
4
credits. This
course focuses on three forms of Japanese Classical Theater - Noh, Bunraku, and
Kabuki. Noh Theater evolved in fourteen century in Kyoto out of music and dance
offerings for the gods of the native Japanese religion, Shinto, which was
patronized by the ruling class. It combines stylized speech, rhythmical chants
(songs), flute and drum music, and dance. Bunraku emerged in Osaka in the seventeenth
century. It is a highly sophisticated form of puppet theater in which
three puppeteers manipulate each half life-size puppet. Kabuki Theater
developed as an entertainment for the economically affluent merchant class in
the late sixteenth century. This popular theater displays vivid colors in
costume and make-up, and glamorous, breath-taking stage tricks. The
course will examine the details and contexts of these traditions and their
historical backgrounds. The students will view some videos to become
familiar with the esoteric performance styles and read plays in all three
genres, with particular attention paid to Monzaemon Chikamatsu, a renowned
playwright for Kabuki and Bunraku. Expert scholars will be invited as guest
speakers and some short workshops/demonstrations will be given by Noh and
Kabuki dancers during the course of the semester. If there is an
appropriate performance in New York City, the class will take a trip to see the
production.
|
CRN |
14394 |
Distribution |
A |
|
Course
No. |
THTR 318 |
||
|
Title |
Visual
Imagination for the Modern Stage |
||
|
Professor |
Gordana Svilar |
||
|
Schedule |
Mon 10:00 am - 1:00 pm |
||
4
credits A
course taught by leading designers and directors in the field. It examines the
explosive prominence of visionary visual ideas on the stage in the past 30
years, the emergence of a new form of collaboration between directors and
designers and the inclusion of the new media on the stage. This course is
required for upper-college theater students.