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.
An introduction to the art of writing words for music, an art at the core of almost every literary tradition from Homer through Beowulf to W.B Yeats and beyond.
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.
This course will provide the background and space to think critically and openly about the representations our work creates, even as we attempt to create our own work in this context.
This course will explore ways that language can take on material properties and how objects can have syntax and be “read.”
Students will become the members of the "writing staff" and will write the pilot and bible for the show.
In this class, students will become familiar with feature film structure, plot evolution, character development, scene shaping and dialogue, and effective techniques for achieving the complex visual and emotional rhythm required by compelling narrative scripts.
This class will use fairytales, films, games and new media to illustrate universal script principles while creating a rich interdisciplinary lens to explore the innovative intersection of narrative screenwriting, science and technology.
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.
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.
This studio course is open to beginning and advanced dancers. We’ll explore dance as a way to deepen both our self-knowledge and engagement with others.
This course moves us between temples, courtyards, clubs, streets, and stages around the world to better understand the diversity of dance.
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.
This course investigates dance as a theoretical model for, and a practice of, mobilization and identity construction, with special attention to the ways these practices have been used by a range of nation states.
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.
Continuing work begun in Introductory Playwriting, students will complete either one full-length play or two long one-acts (40-60 pages) to the end of gaining a firmer understanding of characterization, dialogue, structure, and the playwriting process.
How are directors and actors and co-authors of a live performance, and how can anyone contribute text to a work that seeks its own unified vision? How can design play as integral a role as text?
An exploration of the various aspects of Costume Design for the stage.
An introduction to the art and craft of lighting design for the stage and an exploration of light as a medium for expression.
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.
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950), a phantasmagorical prose-writer with active experience in theater, went almost unpublished during his lifetime.This seminar-workshop investigates the theatrical potential of his prose against the cultural background of the Bolshevik 1920s and Stalinist 1930s.
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 course approaches drawing as a way of thinking and seeing. Students will be introduced to a range of drawing issues, as well as a variety of media, including charcoal, graphite, ink, oil stick, collage, string, wire and clay.
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 studio course introduces students to graphic design with a particular emphasis on typography.
Students in this course will consider the ways in which a graphic design object's characteristics are affected by its ability to be copied and shared, and by the environment in which it is intended to circulate.
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.
A studio introduction to sculpture, particularly the study of form, concept, fabrication and the influence of a wide variety of materials and processes on sculpture and its consequences.
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 introduces techniques of copper plate etching, and relief printing. Assignments focus on applications of various printmaking techniques, while encouraging independent development of subject matter.
How are directors and actors and co-authors of a live performance, and how can anyone contribute text to a work that seeks its own unified vision? How can design play as integral a role as text?
An exploration of the various aspects of Costume Design for the stage.
An introduction to the art and craft of lighting design for the stage and an exploration of light as a medium for expression.
This course will explore ways that language can take on material properties and how objects can have syntax and be “read.”
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 will provide a survey of 21st century world cinema as an investigation into the institutional and theoretical frameworks that inform its production.
In this class, students will become familiar with feature film structure, plot evolution, character development, scene shaping and dialogue, and effective techniques for achieving the complex visual and emotional rhythm required by compelling narrative scripts.
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.
This course explores a variety of possible "equations" by which a painting gets made.
This class will investigate the idea of "manipulation" in photography and examine different approaches to controlling form and content.
In this course, each student will determine a specific theme that they will poke, prod and refine throughout the semester, ultimately completing three fully realized, thematically-linked sculptures and/or installations.
In this class, each student will be given one segment of a script which they can interpret in any way they choose.
This class will investigate the evolving practice of art by creating objects designed to interact with people and spaces around campus.
This class will use fairytales, films, games and new media to illustrate universal script principles while creating a rich interdisciplinary lens to explore the innovative intersection of narrative screenwriting, science and technology.