Creating Theatre and Film as Social Action

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Be in the room where it happens! Creating Theatre and Film as Social Action will prepare students to transform ideas, encounters, and convictions into vivid performative texts. Performers, writers, artists, composers and bold thinkers of kinds will investigate and apply techniques that have created some of the most exciting productions of the current decade as they devise and perform both solo and company-generated productions. Exercises and discussions lay the foundation for creative work as students experience the process of generating text, action, and image from initial inspiration to live performance or film. The class engages both the analytical and impulsive mind in world-building and storytelling as it explores diverse forms of expression. For the final project, students are expected to create a video essay, a multi-disciplinary performance, or a hitherto unseen new experience or happening.