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Embodying Structure: Construction of the Corset — DRA2213.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Credits: 2
In order to construct a historical costume accurately one often needs to start with the foundation garments of that period. This course will examine how corsets and their construction play a role in re-creating period silhouettes. Students will learn how to reproduce period corset patterns as well as construct the corsets with all their structural elements. Particular attention
Dance Drama

Embodying Structure: Construction of the Corset — DRA2213.01

Fall 2026
Instructor: Richard MacPike
Days & Time: TU,FR 4:10pm-6:00pm
Credits: 2

In order to construct a historical costume accurately one often needs to start with the foundation garments of that period. This course will examine how corsets and their construction play a role in recreating period silhouettes. Students will learn how to reproduce period corset patterns as well as construct the corsets with

Dance Drama

Embodying Text — DRA4162.01

Fall 2023
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will engage in an investigation of textual analysis for performance of Shakespeare: scansion, rhythm, sense stress, image work, phonetic phraseology, etc. We will study the structure of the verse and the elements of rhetoric as the primary source for an actor’s investigation and performance of a role. We will explore techniques for enlivening that analysis in the performer’s
Drama

Embodying Text — DRA4162.01

Spring 2022
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will engage in an investigation of textual analysis for performance of Shakespeare: scansion, rhythm, sense stress, image work, phonetic phraseology, etc. We will study the structure of the verse and the elements of rhetoric as the primary source for an actor’s investigation and performance of a role. We will explore techniques for enlivening that analysis in the performer’s
Drama

Embodying Text: Shakespeare and Beyond — DRA2264.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
We will engage in deep investigation of text analysis for performance of Shakespeare: scansion, rhythm, sense stress, image work, phonetic phraseology, etc. Additionally, we will explore techniques for enlivening that analysis with a performing body. We will study the structure of the verse and the elements of rhetoric as the primary source for an actor's investigation of a
Drama

English Restoration and 18th Century Drama — LIT4240.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Maya Cantu
Credits: 4
This class will explore English drama of the Restoration and 18th century, with a focus on the structure and conventions of the comedy of manners. During the Restoration, the cavaliers of Charles II’s court promoted an ethos of sophisticated debauchery, fueled by the Hobbesian social currency of wit and power. Within this world of masks, mirrors, and modes, playwrights
Drama Literature

Ethnographic Playwriting — APA4120.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Aaron Landsman, MFA Teaching Fellow
Credits: 4
This course takes an ethnographic approach to making new theater works within community collaborations. This course is about engaging your most adventurous artist self in the context of delicate, politically loaded, dialogic processes. We will read, watch and discuss the work of subculture theorists, architects, theater-makers and other artists, all of whom use staged
CAPA Drama

Eugene Onegin-Singers — MVO4254.01

Spring 2026
Instructor: Kerry Ryer-Parke
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 2

This is a 2 credit course to support the Faculty Drama Production of Eugene Onegin. Voice and style instruction will be provided for the singers in the musical, and some research on American singing styles. 

Drama Voice

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2027
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Days & Time: WE 2:10pm-4:00pm
Credits: 2

This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy by approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through

Dance Drama

Experiential Anatomy/Somatic Practices — DAN2149.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Elena Demyanenko
Credits: 4
This is a studio class for any discipline intended to deepen the understanding of your own moving body. We will be studying kinesthetic anatomy by approaching the material through visual, cognitive, kinesthetic, and sensory modes. Class time will be divided between discussion of anatomy and kinesthetic concepts, and engagement with the material experientially through movement,
Dance Drama

Exploring the Work and Legacy of Jerzy Grotowski — DRA2219.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Jennifer Rohn
Credits: 2
"No one else in the world, to my knowledge, no one since Stanislavski, has investigated the nature of acting, its phenomenon, its meaning, the nature and science of its mental, physical, emotional process as deeply and completely as Grotowski"-Peter Brook Jerzy Grotowski is considered one of the most influential theater practitioners of the 20th century. In this course we will
Drama

Faculty Performance Production — DRA4143.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Kirk Jackson Kerry Ryer-Parke
Credits: 4
A faculty directed production is to be determined. Mostly likely it will be a contemporary playwright and include live music either centrally or peripherally; music direction by Kerry Ryer-Parke and stage direction by Kirk Jackson, with a target performance date of early November. This course is for students cast or otherwise assigned production responsibilities and represents
Drama Music

Faculty Performance Production: Airline Highway by Lisa D’Amour — DRA4381.02, section 2

Fall 2023
Instructor: Carly Rudzinski
Credits: 2
Airline Highway examines a tight knit community of “outsiders” over the course of a single, legendary day.  The Hummingbird Hotel is the figurative or literal home for a group of strippers, French Quarter service workers, hustlers, and poets who are bound together by their bad luck, bad decisions, and complete lack of pretense.  Presiding over them is Miss Ruby,
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Airline Highway by Lisa D’Amour — DRA4381.01, section 1) (days/times updated 5/5/2023

Fall 2023
Instructor: Dina Janis
Credits: 4
Airline Highway examines a tight knit community of “outsiders” over the course of a single, legendary day.  The Hummingbird Hotel is the figurative or literal home for a group of strippers, French Quarter service workers, hustlers, and poets who are bound together by their bad luck, bad decisions, and complete lack of pretense.  Presiding over them is Miss Ruby, a
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull — DRA4141.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
Chekhov declared he was “flagrantly disregarding the basic tenets of the stage” in writing this comedy with “a view of a lake…little action, and five tons of love.” In the play’s openness, and its shunning of melodramatic plot in favor of the messiness of life, The Seagull feels as unconventional today as when it debuted. Our production of this ensemble-based play will also
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: August: Osage County — DRA4264.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Chronicling the dissolution of three generations of an American family, August: Osage County (2008 winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Tony and Drama Desk Awards for Best Play) has been called “a fusion of epic tragedy and black comedy”. Actor/playwright Tracy Letts sourced the darkly comedic and viciously nihilistic drama from his own family and tailored the characters for a
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Everybody — DRA4152.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Kirk Jackson
Credits: 4
Everybody by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is a modern interpretation of the 15thC Morality play, Everyman, in which the character of Everyman is summoned by God to make account of his life before passing into the unknown afterlife. Everyman solicits entities such as Friendship, Kinship, and Love to accompany him, only to discover that few of these can be taken from this life into the
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Everything That Never Happened by Sarah Mantell — DRA4152.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
"Jessica and Lorenzo are in love, but in order to be together they must plan an escape from her father’s house, the Venetian ghetto, and her entire culture. Taking place in the gaps between "The Merchant of Venice" and the realities of Jewish history, "Everything That Never Happened" is a play about a father, a daughter, disguise, assimilation, pomegranates, and everything
Dance Drama Music

Faculty Performance Production: Gloria by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins — DRA4308.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever. "These are people you can
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Phillip Christian Smith's 2017 political thriller, "The Chechens" — DRA4143.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
This is a faculty performance production of a new play, “The Chechens,” by Phillip Christian Smith, Black playwright and 2020-2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow. “In modern Chechnya homosexuals are rumored to be held in camps. Can one family protect their brother suspected of being gay, or will they honor kill him to protect the name of the family? What prevails in the end
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Sarah Gancher’s “The Place We Built” — DRA4160.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
Sarah Gancher’s award-winning 2016 play, "The Place We Built": “In a deserted neighborhood in post-communist Budapest, young bohemians squat in an abandoned building and build a bar. Reclaiming the Jewish identity their parents’ generation abandoned after the Holocaust, they create a vibrant new subculture that combines big ideas and intense debates with wild parties.
Drama

Faculty Performance Production: Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" — DRA4308.01

Spring 2016
Instructor: Jean Randich
Credits: 4
“The course of true love never did run smooth.” Shakespeare weaves the rebellious lovers, rude mechanicals, and fairies into the woods and everyone is transformed. This production will cast a dada/surrealist light on this popular comedy of gender friction, identity confusion, and the push and pull of rationality and dream logic. In this multi-media production we will re
Drama Music

Faculty Performance Production: Sweat by Lynn Nottage — DRA4383.01

Spring 2024
Instructor: Shawtane Bowen
Credits: 4
Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, Sweat tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But the post Y2K economy is changing, NAFTA is a new reality and rumors fly about layoffs. Promotions and pride inevitably collide, forming cracks in decades-old friendships that
Black Studies Drama