Visual Thinking and Creation for Theatermakers

Harvard FAS

This course is about seeing and making, because theatre, dance, and media artists of all kinds must think visually with the same depth and precision they bring to text, story, and music. We begin by examining how the eye and brain interact—how we perceive, process, and assign meaning to visual information. From there, we will develop a rich vocabulary of visual design concepts, exploring how form and content shape attention, emotion, and narrative.On stage, the visual world must be treated as…