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This new course centers the development and performance of smaller scale original student work in a repertory theater ensemble environment. It is open to those interested in plays, but also screenplays, pilots, solo pieces, devised pieces, clown shows, even songwriting or short form videos. It is especially valuable to anyone who wishes to
How should states and the international community respond to protracted and violent conflicts involving ethnic, linguistic, religious or other identity groups? This is/was one of the central challenges of politics and governance in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Fiji, Iraq, India, Indonesia, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon
Beginning, intermediate and advanced group lessons on the mandolin will be offered. Students will learn classical technique on the mandolin and start to develop a repertoire of classical and traditional folk pieces. Simple song sheets with chords, tablature, and standard notation, chord theory, and scale work will all be used to further skills. History of the Italian origins
This course will advance the work of Meisner I into the exploration of text and scene work. We will discover how to transform words on the page into vital improvisation by continually giving up our ideas of how we think a scene should be acted and trusting in what is actually happening between the actors on stage, in the moment. We will embark on a process of character
Modeling and Making with Rhino 8 is an introductory course to Computer-Aided Design (CAD) Modeling and how those models can be used in real-world applications. This course will explore the use of Rhino to create interactive models that represent imagined designs for; manufacturing, architecture, and spatial sketching. Particular attention will be paid to how computer models
Modern Guitar is a one on one private lesson. Occasionally if two students are about the same level the class will accommodate two students at a time.
It is expected that a firm grasp of all the concepts taught in Beginning and Intermediate Guitar are fully understood.<
This beginning-level dance course requires no previous dance training and welcomes absolute beginners who would like to start a day with physical practice and body attunement. Students are introduced to some basic principles of dancing by learning various movement patterns, choreographed sequences and by engaging in improvisational and
This class is a broad overview of professional music and sound practices that include sound and design in theaters, recording studios, concerts, clubs, museums, installations, performance ensembles, movies, games, podcasts, field recording, immersive environments, architectural spaces, schools, parks, historical sites, AI, AR, VR, health
This class focuses on musical architecture, by examining important and beautiful works from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and discussing the traditional forms they exemplify. We will listen to works by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Berg, and Rzewski (among others), analyzing their structures in detail. Forms to be studied will
This course introduces students to a selection of global dance and music practices via scholarship and video that, while not exhaustive, will serve to expand students’ understanding of the meaningful roles these art forms can play in different cultural contexts. We will frame this exploration through a critical analysis of the Western
Discover birds like you’ve never seen or heard them before. This class takes an integrative approach to ornithology, as we will explore avian species from the perspective of evolution, natural history, development, ecology, conservation, physiology, genetics, behavior, functional morphology, and even quantum mechanics.
In this course, we will study the representation of the city of Paris on film in order to examine modernityʹs challenges to tradition. In particular, we will focus on urban planning and design as well the question of how urban communities and city dwellers react to increasing disconnectedness, anonymity, and solitude.
In this performance project, we will create a new original work in which a single “figure” is composed collectively by all participants. Like an AI-generated image built from multiple faces, this piece emerges through layering—of movement, personal text, and presence—into a shared body.
The pessimist Arthur Schopenhauer writes, “In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.” What is the right attitude to the human condition? This advanced level course examines this
This course explores how photographers translate artistic concepts into the materiality of bookmaking, giving students insight into the basic steps of creating a photobook. The course will experiment with different book designs, paper qualities, digital printing, binding techniques, sequencing exercises, intervened photography, photo-collage, and layering. Students will be
Individual private lessons for advanced students, with focus on the classical repertoire. Students will meet with the instructor weekly on scheduled class days, at times to be arranged with the instructor. Two excused absences permitted, with every effort made for make-up lessons. Daily practice is expected, and participation in Tuesday evening music workshop and performance
This is a two credit composition workshop for students who want to practice their notated composing, and who have previously taken “Composing for Instruments” or another course requiring notational skills. This is a project class, with new pieces due every week. Students will gain fluency in the composing/notating process and confront some theory concepts along the way, by
Piano Lab I aims to introduce the piano to first-time musicians or first-time pianists. Over the course of the semester, basics in music theory, piano technique, and note reading will be taught, culminating in an end-of-term recital. Please note that this course is meant for beginners, not advanced pianists.
Instructor will provide musical prompts such as chordal patterns, melodic fragments, and rhythms as a basis for evocative and expressive improvisation. While we will learn some music theory terminology, the class will de-emphasize sheet music in order to focus on navigating the keyboard itself. All experience levels are welcome.<
In this advanced class, we will read and write plays about plays (or in which a play or performance is essential to the plot). Readings will likely include Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Seagull, Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud to Present, Anne Washburn's 10 out of 12 and Mr. Burns, Alice
If you want to learn playwriting, you should write a lot, write quickly, and write inspired by great plays. Think of this class as your weekly playwriting workout.
Each week, students will be assigned 1-2 contemporary plays to read, drawing from work recently seen or soon-to-be-seen Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway. We will spend the first
Poetry is as much a visual medium as it is a sonic one. What do we learn about the process of composing poems by experimenting closely with their visual aspects? How does working simultaneously with both text and image impact the creative process? What happens when writers break out of the Google doc and engage with the physical process of
The term will be spent focusing on a teaching statement, evidence of teaching history, with a focus on intersectional Life writing. The continuation of the collection of documentation of
The term will be spent focusing on a teaching statement, evidence of teaching history, with a focus on intersectional Life writing. The continuation of the collection of documentation of
Lyric poetry prizes the personal "I," but what happens when writers embody the lives of objects, animals, robots, and environments? How does writing from these positions help illuminate the ways that the concept of "humanity" has excluded Black, POC, trans and gender-diverse, and disabled people? And what new possibilities are opened when we think and write beyond the human?
