Seats remain in some courses offered by Lewis Center programs, including the courses listed below. Don’t miss out on taking a course that might be the highlight of your semester! Courses offered by all Lewis Center programs fulfill the LA distribution requirement, unless otherwise noted.
Dance
A Devised Dance Theater Multiverse
DAN 394/THR 394
Mondays, 1:30-4:20 p.m.
New South 108
Led by Raja Feather Kelly, current Princeton Arts Fellow and choreographer for the recent Tony Award-winning Broadway musical A Strange Loop. Engage in the process of creating new performance work by using a range of of improvisation, experimentation, and writing techniques to generate ideas, shape the content, and structure the performance.
Dancing into the 21st Century: Modern and Contemporary Practices, Repertory, and Improvisation
DAN 403
Tuesday, Wednesday + Thursdays, 4:30-6:20 p.m.
New South 108
Led by Davalois Fearon, this advanced studio course explores the interplay between foundational modern dance techniques (Dunham, Graham, Cunningham, etc.) alongside contemporary practices (Contact Improvisation, Gaga, Flying Low, etc.). You’ll participate in intensive physical training with rotating faculty to engage in a comparative, embodied approach to developing your own movement research.
Comparative Hip-Hop Dance Practice and Aesthetics
DAN 404/AAS 406
Tuesday, Wednesday + Thursdays, 4:30-6:20 p.m.
Ellie’s Studio N201, Lewis Arts complex
If you’re in a hip-hop student dance group, have tried the hip-hop co-curricular classes, or have enjoyed dancing in a hip-hop club, then this course is for you! Develop your own personal relationship to hip-hop culture and its influences in this course structured around a series of workshops with guest dancers from a range of hip-hop traditions. Taught by Breaking practitioner and award-winning choreographer Raphael Xavier and hip-hop scholar Joe Schloss. Appropriate for any dancers who consider themselves beyond absolute beginners.
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Theater & Music Theater
The Craft of Teaching — Community Focused Pedagogy for Artists and Performers
Thursdays, 1:30-4:20 p.m.
Drapkin Theater Studio W217, Lewis Arts complex
With veteran teaching artist Chesney Snow, you’ll study and practice the craft of teaching artistry so you can apply your creative skills to different educational settings. Short application required.
Feminist Theater: 1960s to Now
Thursdays, 1:30-4:20 p.m.
Tilghman Theater Studio W215, Lewis Arts complex
Learn about the different lineages, politics, and aesthetics of feminist theater with scholar Rhaisa Williams. This course fulfills the Dramaturgy & Performance Analysis (DPA) requirement for the minor in Theater & Music Theater.
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Visual Arts
Carceral Cinema and the Abolitionist Imagination
Tuesdays, 1:30-4:20 and 7:30-9:40 p.m.
Rooms 110 & 219, 185 Nassau Street
With award-winning filmmaker Christopher Harris, examine the relationship between the carceral apparatus (the matrix of police, prisons, prosecutors, parole boards, prison guards, probation officers, etc.) and the commercial/industrial cinematic apparatus, which has historically valorized and naturalized hegemonic constructions of crime and punishment for popular consumption.
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Princeton Atelier
Blood Dazzler: Collaboration and Catastrophe
Thursdays, 1:30-4:20 p.m.
Berlind Rehearsal Room, McCarter Theatre Center
Collaborate with award-winning artists Patricia Smith, Davalois Fearon, and Paloma McGregor to build a performance of poetry, dance, music, and visual art rooted in Smith’s monumental book of poetry, Blood Dazzler, and focusing on Hurricane Katrina—20 years later.
The Year that Never Was: Devising a Holiday Special
ATL 495/THR 495
Mondays, 1:30-4:20 p.m.
Godfrey Kerr Theater Studio W216, Lewis Arts complex
Join composer/librettists Michael R. Jackson and Rachel J. Peters in developing a new musical theater piece written in the style of TV musical variety shows and holiday specials of the 1970s and 80s.
How to Write a Song
ATL 496
Tuesdays, 1:30-4:20 p.m.
Location TBD
Learn the art of writing words for music! Respond to emotionally charged themes such as Gratitude, Loss, Protest, Desire, Joyousness, Remorse, and Defiance in this course with musicians Bridget Kearney (Lake Street Dive) and Bartees Strange (Live Forever).
Our Embodied America: A Collaborative Workshop of Dance and Poetry
ATL 497/DAN 497
Fridays, 1:30-4:20 PM
Roberts Dance Studio W201, Lewis Arts complex
BESSIE Award-winning choreographer Kyle Marshall and Creative Director Edo Tastic introduce movement, poetry and visual art to help you explore individual and collective experiences of people living in the U.S.
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