Course Goals:
This course’s goal is to create a foundation for students to consider themselves artists, and to learn processes and tools necessary to create a design. Students will engage in a series of creative projects, research, analysis, and presentations in
order to develop and realize their design solutions.
Learning Objectives:
● To acknowledge and develop artistic processes unique to projection design
for live performance.
● Gain an understanding of projection design process for theater and dance.
● Provide an overview of methods for communicating ideas visually both for
artistic discussion and for practical execution.
● Learn ways of talking about a script, brainstorming ideas and sharing in the
collaborative process.
● Develop a practical understanding of content creation, cueing, and basic
system engineering
This course’s goal is to create a foundation for students to consider themselves artists, and to learn processes and tools necessary to create a design. Students will engage in a series of creative projects, research, analysis, and presentations in
order to develop and realize their design solutions.
Learning Objectives:
● To acknowledge and develop artistic processes unique to projection design
for live performance.
● Gain an understanding of projection design process for theater and dance.
● Provide an overview of methods for communicating ideas visually both for
artistic discussion and for practical execution.
● Learn ways of talking about a script, brainstorming ideas and sharing in the
collaborative process.
● Develop a practical understanding of content creation, cueing, and basic
system engineering
- Teacher: Brittany Bland
This seminar offers a comprehensive examination of the history of theater from early oral cultures to the present. Exploring dramatic literature and theatrical traditions from across the globe, we will sharpen particular focus on the ways various societies have harnessed the power of theater to express, represent, and interrogate the diversity and complexity of the human condition and experience. In addition to surveying and analyzing dramaturgical innovations and formal transformations, we will situate theatrical texts and practices within their socio-historical contexts and contemplate what they perhaps reveal about the communities out of which they emerged. We will also consider how theater has been mobilized across time to inspire fresh imaginings of a more just world.
- Teacher: Isaiah Wooden