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Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, personal examination, and observation. Generating and receiving constructive feedback, with sensitivity to process, is an essential aspect of the work. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and
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Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, and personal examination and observation. We will view solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be tailored
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Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization and personal observation / examination. We may reference the work of solo performance artists. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and perform original memorized material. Class work will be
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Solo Performance: Telling My Story — DRA4322.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Students develop original and/or primary source material and explore its shape, arc, and thematic whole in a performance medium that can involve text, movement, characterization, personal examination, and observation. Generating and receiving constructive feedback, with sensitivity to process, is an essential aspect of the work. Students write, edit, rewrite multiple drafts and
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Something from Nothing — DRA2392.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Abe Koogler
Days & Time: FR 2:10pm-5:50pm
Credits: 4

A class and a provocation: you can make stunningly beautiful, wildly theatrical work…with nothing except bodies, language, and the everyday objects that surround you. Drawing from plays with minimal production elements -- Martín Zimmerman’s On the Exhale, Spalding Gray’s Swimming to Cambodia, Diana Lynn Small’s Mad and a Goat, Suzan

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Space on Stage — DRA2142.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Jiyoun Chang
Credits: 4
How do designers determine how a play will look on stage? How do they evoke the time, space, and future of the play, relate it to the world we know, but also reflect their own personal experience of architecture, time, and space? All these elements influence how we interpret a story, and the people who live in that story. Students will learn how to approach the design process
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Spatial Interventions — VA4127.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Donald Sherefkin Dana Reitz
Credits: 4
For this class, we will be constructing elements to directly interact with the structures and the spaces of the campus, with the intention of creating or revealing new understandings of our built environment. In the process of doing so, we will be exploring our own physical interactions with these shifting locations. Assignments will require that projects address the physical
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Spatial Narratives — DAN4228.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Dana Reitz
Credits: 2
The configuring of two people simply standing in a particular space can mean many different things — to those in it and to those seeing it. By having the two change where they face, switch positions with each other, or move to other locations, we can notice the impact of these changes on how we see the space, how we read the relationship and how we understand the action.
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Speak Out — MOD2117.03; section 2

Spring 2016
Instructor: Tom Bogdan
Credits: 1
We all have things that are important for us to say and we want to be heard. This module will help us to explore using our voices in a healthy way that will allow us to be heard more clearly. We will use simple exercises to develop breath support and vocal projection while learning about basic vocal production. We want to be reminded of what all babies know -- and what most
Drama Modules: Transferable Approaches

Speak Out — MOD2117.01; section 1

Spring 2016
Instructor: Tom Bogdan
Credits: 1
We all have things that are important for us to say and we want to be heard. This module will help us to explore using our voices in a healthy way that will allow us to be heard more clearly. We will use simple exercises to develop breath support and vocal projection while learning about basic vocal production. We want to be reminded of what all babies know -- and what most
Drama Modules: Transferable Approaches

Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship
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Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship
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Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship
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Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Spring 2014
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
Students explore the role of the stage manager in the production process in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of the stage manager to others involved in the
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Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship
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Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
The key role of the stage manager as both collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship
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Stage Management — DRA2241.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 4
***Time Change*** Students explore the key role of the stage manager in the production process in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of the stage manager to others
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Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
The centrality of the stage manager as collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of
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Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Fall 2024
Instructor: Davison Scandrett
Credits: 2
At the center of almost every live performance is a single human being who quite literally runs the show: the stage manager.  This course will explore the stage manager’s role as both an artist and an administrator, using the SM’s wide-ranging responsibilities as a roadmap to understanding the production process and all the people involved in it.  Through readings,
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Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
The centrality of the stage manager as collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of
Dance Drama

Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Michael Giannitti
Credits: 2
The centrality of the stage manager as collaborative artist and manager in the production process is explored by students in this class. Readings, discussions, and projects on topics including scheduling, play breakdowns, prompt book preparation, blocking notation, ground plan and theatre layout, and the running of rehearsals and performances are included. The relationship of
Dance Drama

Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Fall 2025
Instructor: Davison Scandrett
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

At the center of almost every live performance is a single human being who quite literally runs the show: the stage manager. This course will explore the stage manager’s role as both an artist and an administrator, using the SM’s wide-ranging responsibilities as a roadmap to understanding the production process and all the people involved in it. Through readings, discussions

Dance Drama

Stage Management Process — DRA2251.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Kaiya Kirk
Days & Time: TU 8:30am-10:20am
Credits: 2

At the center of almost every live performance is a single human being who quite literally runs the show: the stage manager. This course will explore the stage manager's role as both an artist and an administrator, using the SM's wide-ranging responsibilities as a roadmap to understanding the production process and all the people involved in it.

Through readings,

Dance Drama

Storytelling with Lights — DRA2316.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 4
In this course, we will explore the idea and process of telling stories with light, and examine how the meaning and experience of a story may be changed by lighting choices, which influence our perception of time, space, mood, composition, focus and story content. Our source material will include illustrations, books, movies, and performing art pieces. We will use the
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