Explore the possibilities of capturing dance on film with award-winning film director Josephine Decker '03 and critically-acclaimed Vangeline, a dancer/choreographer who specializes in bringing the Japanese postwar avant-garde movement form Butoh into the 21st century.
Each student will shape, chart out, design and choreograph a live experience that leads people through a physical location of their choice.
Practice in the original composition of poetry supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works.
The curriculum 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.
This course is an introduction to the reading and writing of “the lyric essay,” a variety of non-fiction prose that refuses to obey the truth-telling, reality-capturing and argumentative priorities often associated with the essay.
This studio course will introduce students to the essential aspects and skills of graphic design, and will analyze and discuss the increasingly vital role that non-verbal, graphic information plays in all areas of professional life, from fine art and book design to social networking and the Internet.
SPOTS AVAILABLE — Upperclassmen may still apply for this course until September 12, 2016, at 5:00 p.m. Advanced practice in the original composition of poetry for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings.
SPOTS AVAILABLE — Upperclassmen may still apply for this course until September 12, 2016, at 5:00 p.m. Advanced practice in the original composition of fiction for discussion in regularly scheduled workshop meetings.
Practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works.
SPOTS AVAILABLE — Students, including freshmen, may still apply for this course until September 12, 2016, at 5:00 p.m. This course explores works in which poets of color have treated racial identity as a means to destabilize literary ideals of beauty, mastery and the autonomy of the poetic text while at the same time engaging in groundbreaking poetic practices that subvert externally or internally constructed conceptions of identity or authenticity.
This course will focus on the three major phases of cinematic storytelling: story development, principal photography, and post-production.
In traditional workshops content and context come second to craft. Here we will explore writing political fiction, the politics of fiction and writing as political engagement.
This course will introduce students to core screenwriting principles and techniques.
SPOTS AVAILABLE — Upperclassmen may still apply for this course until September 12, 2016, at 5:00 p.m. 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 course will introduce students to screenwriting adaptation techniques, focusing primarily on the challenges of adapting “true stories” pulled from various non-fiction sources.
This freshman seminar explores the intricate history of Western fascination with non-white bodies in motion, from representations recorded in early ethnographic films to contemporary portrayals of the moving body in Hollywood films, videos, documentaries, and concerts.
From grand plié to grand jeté, Introduction to Ballet is for students with a curiosity for the study of classical ballet.
In this studio course open to anyone with a body, we will explore power, structure, and human bodies through personal, political, anatomical, kinesthetic, and aesthetic lenses. We will delve into these issues as artists do: by reading, thinking, talking, moving, and making performances, actions, sense, and change.
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.
Designed for students with minimal dance experience who are curious about contemporary dance techniques and choreography.
Open to beginning and advanced dancers, this course explores dance as a way to deepen both our self-knowledge and engagement with others.
Join choreographer Susan Marshall and composer/percussionist Jason Treuting in creating and performing music and dance works with your classmates.
This course uses texts and methods from history, theatre, performance studies, and dance to examine artists and works of art as agents of change in New York (1960-present) and contemporary Detroit.
This seminar investigates discourses and politics around the fat body from a performance studies perspective. How does this “f-word” discipline and regulate bodies in /as public?
Choreography Workshop I exposes students to diverse methods of dance-making by tracing the evolution of choreographic thought.
Technique and repertory course that focuses on developing technical expertise, expressive range, and stylistic clarity. In technique, students will examine concepts such as skeletal support, sequential movement, rhythm, and momentum to emphasize efficiency in motion.
Dance choreography, with a focus on contemporary practices and performance. Classes will workshop compositional tasks that set limitations to spark creativity.
Technique and repertory course that focuses on developing technical expertise, expressive range, and stylistic clarity. In technique, students will examine concepts such as skeletal support, sequential movement, rhythm, and momentum to emphasize efficiency in motion.
Choreography Workshop III extends students’ approaches to choreographic research by asking them to create complete works on dancers other than themselves.
Technique and repertory course that focuses on developing technical expertise, expressive range, and stylistic clarity. In technique, students will examine concepts such as skeletal support, sequential movement, rhythm, and momentum to emphasize efficiency in motion.
Students workshop their senior thesis projects either creating a choreographic production or enhancing their artistry as a performer. Classes workshop varying approaches to dance making, including examining practices from modern and post-modern dance, as well as diverse genres and cultural forms.
Technique and repertory course that focuses on developing technical expertise, expressive range, and stylistic clarity. In technique, students will examine concepts such as skeletal support, sequential movement, rhythm, and momentum to emphasize efficiency in motion.
Explore the possibilities of capturing dance on film with award-winning film director Josephine Decker '03 and critically-acclaimed Vangeline, a dancer/choreographer who specializes in bringing the Japanese postwar avant-garde movement form Butoh into the 21st century.
Vocal and instrumental students will rehearse and perform complete operas or evenings of select opera scenes in Richardson Auditorium with full orchestra.
Join choreographer Susan Marshall and composer/percussionist Jason Treuting in creating and performing music and dance works with your classmates.
This course is a series of studies around six of the greatest influences on the American Musical Theatre over the past 60 years: Michael Bennett, Bob Fosse, Kander and Ebb, Harold Prince, Jerome Robbins, and Stephen Sondheim.
This course will explore conventional and resistant performances of gender and sexuality in the Broadway musical since the 1940s.
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 course uses texts and methods from history, theatre, performance studies, and dance to examine artists and works of art as agents of change in New York (1960-present) and contemporary Detroit.
An exploration of the various aspects of Costume Design for the stage.
This course is a series of studies around six of the greatest influences on the American Musical Theatre over the past 60 years: Michael Bennett, Bob Fosse, Kander and Ebb, Harold Prince, Jerome Robbins, and Stephen Sondheim.
2016 marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death. In conjunction with an exhibition at the University Art Museum, this course will largely focus on Shakespeare's "afterlives" since WWII.
This course is designed to enter into the worlds that Chekhov's drama opens to readers, directors, actors, and spectators.
This course offers an in depth exploration of the role of creative producing in professional theater and its relationship to the produced work.
This course is a survey of classical and modern drama from Africa, China, India, Japan, and Latin America.
This course is designed to endow students with the conceptual and practical skills that will enable them to design for productions in the theater program.
Special directing assignments will be made for each student, whose work will be analyzed by the instructor and other members of the workshop.
Each student will shape, chart out, design and choreograph a live experience that leads people through a physical location of their choice.
This course approaches drawing as a way of thinking and seeing.
This urban studies seminar in history and documentary filmmaking focuses on Trenton's unrest of April 1968, when a black college student, Harlan Joseph, was shot and killed by a white police officer.
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 studio course will introduce students to the essential aspects and skills of graphic design, and will analyze and discuss the increasingly vital role that non-verbal, graphic information plays in all areas of professional life, from fine art and book design to social networking and the Internet.
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.
What is the relationship between sound and place? How do we experience the everyday sounds of our acoustic environment? What stories can sound tell? This course invites students to engage with Princeton's soundscape.
A film/video course introducing the techniques of shooting and editing digital video.
In the real world, what relationships have the necessary friction to generate compelling films? Documentary Filmmaking will introduce you to the craft, history and theory behind attempts to answer this question.
This course will examine photography's constant negotiation of evolving technologies.
This course explores the history of photographic portraiture as well as the work of contemporary artists working in a post-modern age where representation and identity are deconstructed.
An exploration of the various aspects of Costume Design for the stage.
This course will focus on the three major phases of cinematic storytelling: story development, principal photography, and post-production.
Through readings, discussions, case studies, and studio projects, students in this class will engage the immediate context of the University as source material for their artworks, and as a means of exploring the effect that research and knowledge production might have on contemporary artistic practice.
This course will provide a survey of 21st century world cinema as an investigation into the institutional and theoretical frameworks that inform its production.
This course will introduce students to core screenwriting principles and techniques.
The course addresses current issues in painting, drawing, sculpture, film, video, photography, and performance installation.
This course is designed to endow students with the conceptual and practical skills that will enable them to design for productions in the theater program.
Through careful observation, this class will focus exclusively on human figure and purse the development of a strong sense of bone structure, muscle contours and light. From this perceptual foundation, students will be encouraged to develop independent points of view. Assignments will loosely revolve around themes of narrative, abstraction, expression, and conceptual strategies.
SPOTS AVAILABLE — Upperclassmen may still apply for this course until September 12, 2016, at 5:00 p.m. 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 course investigates how extreme amounts of invested time and manual labor are capable of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.
This course will introduce students to screenwriting adaptation techniques, focusing primarily on the challenges of adapting “true stories” pulled from various non-fiction sources.
Each student will shape, chart out, design and choreograph a live experience that leads people through a physical location of their choice.