How do you construct an interactive, three-dimensional memory using video, sound and space? Taught by filmmaker/ video designer Kaz Phillips-Safer and singer/ songwriter/ composer Heather Christian, "Memory House" guides students through the creation of a site-specific immersive video and sound installation.
Practice in the original composition of poetry supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works.
This course allows the student to develop writing skills, provides an introduction to the possibilities of contemporary literature, and offers a perspective on the place of literature among the liberal arts.
Practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works.
Advanced practice in the original composition of poetry for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings.
Advanced practice in the original composition of fiction for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings.
Advanced practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works.
This course tackles revision through workshops in which students are asked to re-write stories. Ideal for students who want to write a fiction thesis, or for students who are serious about producing publishable work.
This course will introduce students to core screenwriting principles and techniques.
This advanced screenwriting course will introduce students to the post 1990's "golden age of television" and outline the differences between writing for film and a scripted TV series.
This seminar will explore the idea of color through a wide range of scientific, philosophical and aesthetic theories.
This course will introduce students to screenwriting adaptation techniques, focusing primarily on the challenges of adapting “true stories” pulled from various non-fiction sources.
From grand plié to grand jeté, Introduction to Ballet is for students with a curiosity for the study of classical ballet.
Designed for people with little or no previous training in dance, the class will be a mixture of movement techniques, improvisation, choreography, observing, writing and discussing.
A studio course introducing students to American dance aesthetics and practices, with a focus on how its evolution has been influenced by African American choreographers and dancers.
Open to beginning and advanced dancers, this course explores dance as a way to deepen both our self-knowledge and engagement with others.
This class in contemporary dance technique emphasizes strong fundamentals of proper alignment to achieve increased movement efficiency, strength and flexibility.
Students will create dance works and sculptures that challenge the boundaries between the two disciplines of dance and visual arts.
This composition course applies the method of sketching—a common practice in the visual arts—to contemporary performance making.
This interdisciplinary course uses texts and methods from history, theatre, and dance to examine artists and works of art as agents of change in New York (1960-present) and contemporary Detroit.
Dance technique and choreography, with a focus on contemporary practices and performance.
Students are exposed to distinct choreographers by learning and performing repertory and creating choreography.
Advanced students will learn and perform dances that represent diverse approaches to contemporary choreography.
An introduction to the craft of acting through scene study monologues and, finally, a longer scene drawn from a play, to develop a method of working on a script.
This is a workshop in the fundamentals of writing plays.
L'Avant-Scène will offer students the opportunity to put their language skills in motion by discovering French theater in general and by acting in French, in particular.
A continuation of THR 201: Guide students in ways to develop a role and to explore important texts and characters in an imaginative and honest manner.
This composition course applies the method of sketching—a common practice in the visual arts—to contemporary performance making.
This workshop course for actors, directors and scholars rehearses how to play with and against "type" in performance.
This seminar examines the musicals of Stephen Sondheim, from page to stage.
This interdisciplinary course uses texts and methods from history, theatre, and dance to examine artists and works of art as agents of change in New York (1960-present) and contemporary Detroit.
This course examines enactments of youthful masculinity in U.S. popular performance with a particular eye toward accounts of variant or queer boyhoods.
An opportunity to explore what theatrical sound design is, how to look at a text from the point of view of sound, how to launch your creative process, and how to take the ideas based on that creative process and turn them into sounds to be used in a show.
This workshop will introduce students to the craft of writing words and music for the musical theatre. In addition to weekly and in-class practical assignments in technique and skill-building, the course will explore key moments in musical theatre history, criticism and to place students’ work in a larger context.
The first half of this course will look at both plays and the theatrical ideas and practices of Bertolt Brecht, one of the most important dramatists and theater thinkers of the twentieth century. The second half of the course will look at how Brecht's work has shaped some representative British theatrical institutions from 1956 until the present.
This is a workshop based class for those interested in multi-skilled performance and in how performance skills can illuminate new forms of theatre making.
The course is designed to endow students with practical skills that will enable them to design a production, and to support them in making technical decisions as well as in collaborating with the rest of the creative team.
Special directing assignments will be made for each student, whose work will be analyzed by the instructor and other members of the workshop.
This seminar will explore the idea of color through a wide range of scientific, philosophical and aesthetic theories.
The Fall Show provides students with a rigorous and challenging experience of creating theater under near-professional circumstances.
This course approaches drawing as a way of thinking and seeing.
An introduction to the materials and methods of painting.
An introduction to the processes of analog photography through a series of problems directed toward the handling of film-based cameras, light-sensitive paper, darkroom chemistry, and printing.
This studio course introduces students to aesthetic and theoretical implications of digital photography.
This course introduces students to techniques for decoding and creating graphic messages in a variety of media, and delves into issues related to visual literacy through the hands-on making and analysis of graphic form.
This studio class will address the increasing social pressure on art to become more widely distributed, immediately accessible, and democratically produced.
A studio introduction to sculpture, particularly the study of form, space, and the influence of a wide variety of materials and processes on the visual properties of sculpture.
A film/video course introducing the techniques of shooting and editing digital video.
This course will give students an introduction to documentary film and video production, with a special emphasis on the practical challenges of producing films in the real world.
Students will create dance works and sculptures that challenge the boundaries between the two disciplines of dance and visual arts.
This studio course seeks to broaden students’ skills through a wide range of photographic media.
An introduction to the richness of Brazilian film, this course explores major cinematic movements, and will include the Cinema Novo, critically acclaimed documentaries, and more recent commercial successes.
This course is course designed for students interested in learning the fundamentals of working with clay.
A seminar on the films of avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage.
Combining actual making with art criticism and an examination of the circulation of contemporary art, particularly the of work of black artists, this seminar is structured around fundamental art concepts such as line, color, illustration, abstraction, multiples, beauty, and meaning.
This course will introduce students to core screenwriting principles and techniques.
This interdisciplinary studio course encourages students to expand their definition of painting by investigating methods of painting other than the convention of stretched fabric over a wood support.
The course addresses current issues in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, video, photography, and performance installation.
The course is designed to endow students with practical skills that will enable them to design a production, and to support them in making technical decisions as well as in collaborating with the rest of the creative team.
This advanced screenwriting course will introduce students to the post 1990's "golden age of television" and outline the differences between writing for film and a scripted TV series.
This studio course builds on the skills and concepts of the 200-level Graphic Design classes.
This seminar provides senior ART Program 2 and VIS certificate students a context for investigating and discussing contemporary art exhibition practices.
This class will explore the art of storytelling through the aesthetics of film editing.
This course investigates how extreme amounts of invested time and manual labor are capable of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.
This seminar will explore the idea of color through a wide range of scientific, philosophical and aesthetic theories.
This course will introduce students to screenwriting adaptation techniques, focusing primarily on the challenges of adapting “true stories” pulled from various non-fiction sources.