Spring course registration is just around the corner! See the new arts courses that programs in the Lewis Center for the Arts are offering next semester and discover featured courses that you won’t want to miss. Course registration runs November 28 – December 1, 2023.
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Princeton Atelier
A Blank Page: Creativity, Collaboration, and Adaptation (New)
Calling all playwrights, composers, directors, and performers! Explore creativity and collaboration through the form of musical theater alongside composer Dave Malloy and director Annie Tippe in this Atelier that will culminate with performances of short 1-act musicals written, directed and performed by you!
Space, Time and Creation — A Theatrical Adaptation of Mr g (New)
Guided by Cara Reichel and Jiyoun Chang, fine-tune your dramaturgical skills with a study of the novel Mr g by Alan Lightman and investigate its subject matter that spans from science to moral philosophy.
How to Write a Song
Taught by Bridget Kearney (Lake Street Dive) with class visits from guest singer/songwriters and music critics, this course will give you an excellent introduction to the art of writing words for music. Ideal for student composers, writers, and performers.
How To Write a Monologue (New)
In this workshop devoted to the study and creation of the dramatic monologue, you will study various monologues with Will Eno, an Obie and Drama Desk Award-winning playwright, to understand and reaffirm the very simple idea behind all of them: I’m trying to talk to you.
Performing Marivaux (New)
Take advantage of the rare opportunity to work with celebrated French director and playwright Guillaume Vincent, known in France for revisiting the classics. Co-taught by Florent Masse, this course culminates in public theatrical performances.
Creative Writing
Introductory Fiction
Reality getting you down? Speculative fiction might be for you. In this workshop with Ed Park, you’ll embrace a spirit of experimentation and learn about some fascinating genre traditions—science fiction and fantasy, supernatural and slipstream—and try to build universes that won’t (per Philip K. Dick) fall apart two days later. This is a special section (Section C03) offered as part of CWR 204, Intro Fiction.
Dance
Site: Place in Art, Performance, and Dance (New)
Through the bisecting lenses of dance and visual art, this course examines site-based work in land art, environmental and ecological art, urban intervention, community engaged practices, and public art. With Colleen Asper and Rebecca Lazier, you’ll engage in movement practices and material explorations as a form of research into sites on and off campus.
Movement and Light: Interaction and Process of Design and Choreography (New)
In this hands-on studio course taught by Tess James and Susan Marshall, you’ll explore light and movement to better understand how these elements inform each other in the creation of interdisciplinary work. Act as both designer and choreographer to create, revise, communicate and collaborate across disciplines and cultures.
Dance, Theater and Popular Culture (New)
If you want to better understand how dance theater has both shaped and been shaped by pop culture, join this exciting new class with Princeton Arts Fellow Raja Feather Kelly, who is currently choreographing the new Broadway musical Lempicka and recently choreographed the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical A Strange Loop. Application required.
Approaches to Contemporary Dance and Movement Practices: Hip-Hop
This advanced studio course, led by acclaimed scholars and practitioners Joseph Schloss and Raphael Xavier, explores hip-hop through the dance form’s technique, aesthetics, cultural contexts and history.
Theater & Music Theater
Theater Making Studio
This studio class with Shariffa Ali and Jane Cox will support you in creating theatrical projects. Join this cohort of advanced students to develop your creative process, collaborative skills, inclusive practices, and to grow as a visual storyteller, critical thinker, theater maker, and active citizen. Application required.
Intermediate Playwriting
Continue to develop as playwright by working on characterization, dialogue, structure, and by sharpening your critical and analytical skills in this class with renowned playwright Lloyd Suh (The Far Country — Pulitzer Prize Finalist; The Chinese Lady, Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery, American Hwangap).
Black Performance Theory
Join Rhaisa Williams to explore black performance theory and focus on blackness as both lived experience and as a mode of theoretical inquiry in this class that draws on performance studies, theater, dance, and black studies.
The Craft of Teaching — Community Focused Pedagogy for Artists and Performers (New)
How do you apply your creative skills and artistry to different educational settings? Using the example of prisons, specialized schools and community-based organizations, veteran teaching artist Chesney Snow will guide you through studying and practicing the craft of teaching artistry. Application required.
Stories for a Changing Planet (New)
In this class with theater artists Khristián E. Méndez Aguirre & Steve Cosson, you’ll explore how dramatic storytelling shapes our responses to environmental issues, blending documentary-based theater and Ecodramaturgical approaches to create narratives that stage environmental injustice.
The Musical — Past, Present and Future (New)
What is a musical and why should you care? With Solon Snider Sway, come explore the history of the American musical and develop tools to analyze musicals and their reception. You’ll investigate music theater through artist conversations, trips to see musicals, scholarship, and collaboration to write new mini-musicals.
Introduction to Physical Performance (New)
Unleash your playfulness and expand your expressive potential in performance by learning physical acting techniques with Yuval Boim!
Visual Arts
Intermediate Photography
In this course, you’ll work with analog and digital media to broaden your photographic strategies, technical skills, and understanding of how a photograph’s material form influences how it is understood. You’ll utilize cameras, darkroom printing, Photoshop image management tools, inkjet printing, and more.
Black: Toward Chromapolitics of Darkness, Shadow, and Light/Life (New)
“Chromapolitics” challenges us to consider color as neither arbitrary nor neutral, but instead deeply enmeshed in powerful social and cultural dynamics. In this seminar with Tina Campt, you’ll reexamine your own use and understanding of color by focusing on the resonances and intensities of the color black, as well as how shadow, night, and negative space register in visual culture.
Freshman Seminars
Need to take a Freshman Seminar this spring? Consider registering for an FRS based in the arts taught by one of these engaging LCA faculty members:
- Poetry in the Political and Sexual Revolution of the 1960s and 70s (FRS 102) with Alex Dimitrov
- Drawing Up the Wall (FRS 132) with Daniel Heyman
- Global Tactics in Hybrid Media and Performance Making (FRS 148) with Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
- Acting Against Oppression (FRS 173) with Vivia Font
- Drawing Data (FRS 174) with Tim Szetela
- Stillness (FRS 195) with Aynsley Vandenbroucke
