Composer Andrew Lovett and director/performer/writer and composer Rinde Eckert will lead a course about making and performing opera.
Courses
Spring 2015 Courses
Creative Writing
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 is a course in factual writing and what has become known as literary nonfiction, emphasizing writing assignments and including several reading assignments from the work of John McPhee and others.
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.
Practice in the translation of literary works from another language into English supplemented by the reading and analysis of standard works. Criticism by professionals and talented peers encourages the student's growth as both creator and reader of literature.
Dance
From grand plié to grand jeté, Introduction to Ballet is for students with a curiosity for the study of classical ballet. No prior dance experience necessary and beginners are welcome.
Students will investigate their own movement patterns and delve into many facets of dance and cultural questions surrounding it.
Incorporating aspects of jazz, modern and ballet, this contemporary dance class focuses on strengthening fundamental alignment and coordination.
This course encourages you to push your limits and range as mover, dancer and/or actor.
This course provides laboratories and cross-genre dance technique to facilitate a somatic understanding of kinesiology.
Hip Hop Dance Practice and Culture will explore the history and cultural context of different forms of hip hop such as b-boying, uprocking, popping and locking.
The course will consist of an advanced ballet class and explorations into contemporary choreography through readings, viewings, and the learning of repertory.
Theater & Music Theater
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 course encourages you to push your limits and range as mover, dancer and/or actor.
A study of English drama from its medieval origins to Restoration comedy, with special attention to major non-Shakespearean Renaissance playwrights such as Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, and John Ford.
A practical, hands-on introduction to acting and directing in musical theater.
The Great War of 1914-1918 was a defining experience for the modern world. In this course, we excavate forgotten memories and explore a fascinating tension between remembrance and amnesia.
This course will explore conventional and resistant performances of gender and sexuality in the Broadway musical since the 1940s.
Visual Arts
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 studio class will address the increasing social pressure on art to become more widely distributed, immediately accessible, and democratically produced.
This course examines the most influential modern conceptions of religion, as articulated by major thinkers and filmmakers.
Through hands-on studio work, screenings, critical readings and group critiques, this course teaches the basic tools and approaches for film production with digital media including writing, camerawork, sound, editing, and postproduction.
This course introduces students to documentary film production using digital video, with an emphasis on the practical challenges of working in the real world.
This course will examine the so-called “New Hollywood:” the films and filmmakers who reinvigorated the Hollywood studio system in the late 1960s.
This course takes as its investigative locus the artist's studio, a space of experimentation and inspiration, but also of boredom, sociability, exhaustion, and critique.
In this class, each student will be given one segment of a script which they can interpret in any way they choose.