TAPS courses
255 courses · Brown University · Fall 2026
- TAPS 0001A — Trust Yourself: The Practice of Artistic Impulse1 section
- TAPS 0030 — Introduction to Acting and Directing1 section
- TAPS 0080 — Asian American Theatre and Performance in Transnational Contexts1 section
- TAPS 0080A — Feminist Aesthetics and Performance Philosophy1 section
- TAPS 0085 — Uncomfortable Media (MCM 0901H)1 section
- TAPS 0100 — Playwriting I1 section
- TAPS 0101 — Playwriting I1 section
- TAPS 0110E — Screenwriting I (LITR 0110E)1 section
- TAPS 0150 — Screenwriting I (LITR 0110E)1 section
- TAPS 0200 — Playwriting II1 section
- TAPS 0210 — Dancing the African Diaspora1 section
- TAPS 0220 — Persuasive Communication1 section
- TAPS 0230 — Acting1 section
- TAPS 0240 — Africana Feminisms1 section
- TAPS 0250 — Introduction to Technical Theatre and Production1 section
- TAPS 0260 — Stage Lighting1 section
- TAPS 0310 — Beginning Modern Dance1 section
- TAPS 0310E — Shakespeare: The Screenplays (ENGL 0310E)1 section
- TAPS 0320 — Dance Composition1 section
- TAPS 0330 — Mande Dance, Music and Culture1 section
- TAPS 0350 — Black Performance Theory1 section
- TAPS 0360 — Viewpoints Technique: The Moving Body in Relation to Time, Space, and Ensemble1 section
- TAPS 0510 — Introduction to Shakespeare (ENGL 0310A)1 section
- TAPS 0550 — Weird and Wild Writing for the Dramatic Stage1 section
- TAPS 0700 — Introduction to Theatre, Dance and Performance1 section
- TAPS 0800D — Asian/American Performance and Aesthetics1 section
- TAPS 0800E — Performance and Law: Staging Sovereignty in the Courtroom and the Theater1 section
- TAPS 0800F — Performance and the Crisis of Scientific Reality1 section
- TAPS 0800G — The Body Issue: An Introduction1 section
- TAPS 0800H — Performance and Technology: The Art and Science of the Artificial1 section
- TAPS 0800I — (Re)Imagining the Body: What can a Body do?1 section
- TAPS 0800J — Alchemy of Emotions: Middle Eastern Stages, Screens, & Pages1 section
- TAPS 0800K — Islam between Theatre and Performance1 section
- TAPS 0800L — Devised Theatre1 section
- TAPS 0800M — Beyond The Rainbow: Black Otherwises in the Work of Ntozake Shange1 section
- TAPS 0800N — Semiotics of the Broadway Musical1 section
- TAPS 0800P — Uneasy Embodiments: Racial and Gendered Objecthood1 section
- TAPS 0800Q — On the Flesh: Queer and Trans Embodiments1 section
- TAPS 0810 — Performing Italy - Body, Voice and Politics: A Journey within Italian Theatre1 section
- TAPS 0811 — Campus Activism: Disability Justice and Unwaged Labor Movements1 section
- TAPS 0901N — Body/Gesture/Cinema (MCM 0901N)1 section
- TAPS 0901Q — Governing Sex: Citizenship, Violence, Media (MCM 0901Q)1 section
- TAPS 0901S — Mediating Reproduction: Feminism, Art, Activism (MCM 0901S)1 section
- TAPS 0903X — The Dancer and The Muse (MCM 0903J)1 section
- TAPS 0930A — The Actor's Instrument: Voice and Speech1 section
- TAPS 0930B — The Actor's Instrument: Improvisation1 section
- TAPS 0930C — The Actor's Instrument: Stage Movement for Actors and Directors1 section
- TAPS 0930E — The Actor's Instrument: Clown1 section
- TAPS 0930F — Explorations in Clown and Physical Play1 section
- TAPS 0950 — Site-Specific Performance1 section
- TAPS 0971 — Digital Art (MCM0750)1 section
- TAPS 0980 — Black Lavender: Black Gay/Lesbian Plays/Dramatic Constructions in the American Theatre (AFRI…1 section
- TAPS 1000 — Intermediate Dance1 section
- TAPS 1006A — Playing the Villain on Camera (ARTS 1006)1 section
- TAPS 1007A — Performance Practice Workshop (ARTS 1007)1 section
- TAPS 1010 — Performing Brazil: Language, Theater, Culture (POBS 1080)1 section
- TAPS 1011A — Acting for the Camera (ARTS 1011)1 section
- TAPS 1012A — Body as Medium: Queer Lineages of Duration, Resonance, and Excess (ARTS 1012)1 section
- TAPS 1050E — The REAL: A Research to Performance Project (AFRI 1050E)1 section
- TAPS 1080 — Performing Brazil: Language, Theater, Culture (POBS 1080)1 section
- TAPS 1100 — Stage Management1 section
- TAPS 1110 — Voices Beneath the Veil (AFRI 1110)1 section
- TAPS 1148 — Introduction to Contemporary Dance1 section
- TAPS 1150A — Russian/Soviet Performing Arts: Dance, Opera & Theater (RUSS 1150)1 section
- TAPS 1160 — Style and Performance1 section
- TAPS 1160A — Physical Play: Embodied Action & The Art of Making Something New1 section
- TAPS 1170 — Acting Methods for Period Texts1 section
- TAPS 1210 — Solo Performance1 section
- TAPS 1230 — Global Theatre and Performance: Paleolithic to the Threshold of Modernity1 section
- TAPS 1240 — Performance Historiography and Theatre History1 section
- TAPS 1248 — Intermediate Contemporary Dance1 section
- TAPS 1250 — Late Modern and Contemporary Theatre and Performance1 section
- TAPS 1251A — Making the 21st Century Musical1 section
- TAPS 1251C — Scenic Properties and the Props Artisan1 section
- TAPS 1251D — Unmasking the Technologies of White Supremacy1 section
- TAPS 1251E — Embodiment, Materiality and Cultural Production1 section
- TAPS 1251P — Theatre Practicum1 section
- TAPS 1260 — Food as/in Performance1 section
- TAPS 1270 — Masking, Trancing, Performing, and Spectating in Non-Western and Circumpacific Performance1 section
- TAPS 1280B — The Creative Ensemble: Poetry in/to Performance1 section
- TAPS 1280C — Stage Lighting II1 section
- TAPS 1280D — Perception/The Performativity of Neurology1 section
- TAPS 1280E — Neurodiversity and Performance1 section
- TAPS 1280F — Introduction to Set Design1 section
- TAPS 1280G — Introduction to Theatrical Design1 section
- TAPS 1280K — Mindfulness and Movement: Interoceptive Expressive Arts1 section
- TAPS 1280L — Modern American Drama1 section
- TAPS 1280M — A Producer Prepares: Curation, Ethics, and the Entrepreneurial Practice of Arts Programming1 section
- TAPS 1280N — New Theories for a Baroque Stage1 section
- TAPS 1280Q — Hybrid Art (VISA 1800L)1 section
- TAPS 1280S — Libretto Workshop for Musical Theatre1 section
- TAPS 1280U — Voice Over for the Actor1 section
- TAPS 1280V — Theatre and Conquest in the Americas, from Cortes to NAFTA1 section
- TAPS 1280W — Native American Indigenous Theatre Performance1 section
- TAPS 1280X — Compossible Worldbuilding1 section
- TAPS 1280Y — Issues in Performance Studies1 section
- TAPS 1280Z — A Producer Prepares: Advanced Topics in Curation, Ethics, and Arts Programming1 section
- TAPS 1281A — Director/Designer Collaborative Studio1 section
- TAPS 1281C — Memory Plays: Theatricality and Time1 section
- TAPS 1281D — Place-Based Dance and Performance1 section
- TAPS 1281E — Directing Theory and Practice1 section
- TAPS 1281F — Choreography ONE: Dancemaking Pre-Classic to Post-Modern1 section
- TAPS 1281G — Queer Dance1 section
- TAPS 1281H — Collaborations in Performance: Theory and Practice Moving Together1 section
- TAPS 1281M — Introduction to Costume Construction1 section
- TAPS 1281O — Acting Outside the Box: Identity, Empathy, and Character in Performance1 section
- TAPS 1281Q — Introduction to Critical Dance Studies1 section
- TAPS 1281S — The Precarious University (HMAN 1970E)1 section
- TAPS 1281T — Native Americans in the Media: Representation and Self-Representation on Film (ETHN 1890G)1 section
- TAPS 1281W — Arts and Health: Theory1 section
- TAPS 1281X — Costume Design1 section
- TAPS 1281Y — Art and Activism1 section
- TAPS 1281Z — Arts and Health: Practice1 section
- TAPS 1285 — Film Acting I1 section
- TAPS 1286 — Film Acting II1 section
- TAPS 1290 — Advanced Costume Design1 section
- TAPS 1300 — Advanced Set Design1 section
- TAPS 1310 — Advanced Modern Dance1 section
- TAPS 1311 — Dancers' Choice: Improvisational Frameworks for Intermediate and Advanced Movers1 section
- TAPS 1312 — Contemporary Dance Forms - Intermediate/Advanced Studio1 section
- TAPS 1315 — Digital Design for the Theatre1 section
- TAPS 1320 — Dance Composition1 section
- TAPS 1325 — Experiments in Dance, Movement, and Performance1 section
- TAPS 1330 — Dance History: The 20th Century1 section
- TAPS 1330A — Way Too Much And Not Nearly Enough: Making Performance in The Post-Post-Dramatic1 section
- TAPS 1334 — Contemporary Partnering1 section
- TAPS 1335 — Movement Theory: Choreography, Modernity, Subjectivity1 section
- TAPS 1337 — Introduction to FlexN Dance & Movement1 section
- TAPS 1338 — Advanced FlexN1 section
- TAPS 1339 — Embodied Anatomy1 section
- TAPS 1340 — Dance Styles1 section
- TAPS 1340A — Native American Theatre: from Traditional Storytelling to the Modern Theater Movement1 section
- TAPS 1341 — Introduction to Ballet1 section
- TAPS 1342 — Ballet II1 section
- TAPS 1343 — Ballet III (Intermediate/Advanced Ballet)1 section
- TAPS 1344 — Advanced Ballet with Repertory1 section
- TAPS 1345 — Dance and the Visual Arts after 1960: Performing the Everyday, Choreographing the Museum1 section
- TAPS 1347 — The Viewpoints Technique: The Moving Body in Relation to Time, Space, and Ensemble1 section
- TAPS 1348 — Contemporary Dance Studio Project 11 section
- TAPS 1349 — Contemporary Dance Studio Project 21 section
- TAPS 1350 — Dance Performance and Repertory1 section
- TAPS 1355 — Indian Classical Performance: Natyasastra Theory and Practice1 section
- TAPS 1360 — Dance Performance and Repertory1 section
- TAPS 1370 — New Works/World Traditions1 section
- TAPS 1380 — Mise en Scene1 section
- TAPS 1390 — Contemporary Mande Performance1 section
- TAPS 1400 — Advanced Performance1 section
- TAPS 1410M — Shakespeare and Philosophy (COLT 1410M)1 section
- TAPS 1415 — 13 Positions1 section
- TAPS 1425 — Queer Performance1 section
- TAPS 1430 — Russian Theatre and Drama1 section
- TAPS 1450M — The Archival of Gestures (MES 1450)1 section
- TAPS 1480 — Sweating Infrastructure: Cultures of Support in Dance and Live Performance1 section
- TAPS 1485 — The Activist Body1 section
- TAPS 1500A — Advanced Playwriting: Invitation to the Devout Life1 section
- TAPS 1500H — Advanced Playwriting1 section
- TAPS 1500I — Screenwriting1 section
- TAPS 1500J — Script Adaptation1 section
- TAPS 1500L — Acting Together on the World Stage: Writing and Political Performance1 section
- TAPS 1500M — Advanced Playwrighting: Guhahamuka1 section
- TAPS 1500N — Advanced Undergraduate Playwriting: Experiments in Time1 section
- TAPS 1500P — Asian American Theater Making1 section
- TAPS 1500R — Auditioning for the Camera1 section
- TAPS 1500S — Performance and Media After Reality1 section
- TAPS 1500T — Liberatory Strategies for Whole Artist Collaboration1 section
- TAPS 1510 — Inventing Directing1 section
- TAPS 1511 — Directing Workshop1 section
- TAPS 1520 — Seminar in Theatre Arts1 section
- TAPS 1540 — Bold Bodies: Race in Feminist & Queer Performance (GNSS 1540)1 section
- TAPS 1600 — Dramaturgy1 section
- TAPS 1600V — Social Practice: Art in Everyday Life (VISA 1600)1 section
- TAPS 1610 — Political Theatre of the Americas1 section
- TAPS 1630 — Performativity and the Body: Staging Gender, Staging Race1 section
- TAPS 1640 — Theatre and Conquest in Greater Mexico: From Cortes to NAFTA1 section
- TAPS 1643M — From Nutcracker to Night Creature: Music/Dance Intersections (MUSC 1643)1 section
- TAPS 1650 — 21st Century American Drama1 section
- TAPS 1670 — Latinx Theatre + Performance1 section
- TAPS 1680 — Performance, Politics, and Engagement1 section
- TAPS 1690 — Performance, Art, and Everyday Life1 section
- TAPS 1700A — Voices Beneath the Veil (AFRI 1110)1 section
- TAPS 1700B — African American Folk Traditions and Cultural Expression (AFRI 1120)1 section
- TAPS 1700C — Advanced RPM Playwriting (AFRI 1050A)1 section
- TAPS 1700D — Intermediate RPM Playwriting (AFRI 1050D)1 section
- TAPS 1700E — Introduction to Post-Colonial African and African Diasporic Theatre (AFRI 1050H)1 section
- TAPS 1700G — Roots of African American Fiction: Oral Narrative through Richard Wright (AFRI 1050M)1 section
- TAPS 1700H — Art and Civic Engagement: Creativity/Reality (AFRI 1050P)1 section
- TAPS 1700I — RPM Playwriting (AFRI 1050E)1 section
- TAPS 1700J — Musical Performance and Theatricality (MUSC 1680)1 section
- TAPS 1700K — Site- Specific Writing in Brown's Historical Spaces (AMST 1570)1 section
- TAPS 1700L — African American Musical Theatre (MUSC 1905D)1 section
- TAPS 1700V — Voices Beneath the Veil (AFRI 1110)1 section
- TAPS 1710A — Open Source Culture (MCM 1700N)1 section
- TAPS 1710B — Radical Media (MCM 1700P)1 section
- TAPS 1720 — Queer Relations: Aesthetics and Sexuality (ENGL 1900R)1 section
- TAPS 1740 — Artful Teaching: Intersecting the Arts with Foreign and Second Language Acquisition (POBS 1740)1 section
- TAPS 1751 — Choreodaemonics1 section
- TAPS 1900K — Reading Sex (ENGL 1900K)1 section
- TAPS 1900R — Queer Relations: Aesthetics and Sexuality (ENGL 1900R)1 section
- TAPS 1970 — Independent Reading and Research1 section
- TAPS 1970P — Theatre Practicum1 section
- TAPS 1971 — Digital Media and Virtual Performance (MUSC 1971)1 section
- TAPS 1971M — Digital Media and Virtual Performance (MUSC 1971)1 section
- TAPS 1990 — Senior Honors Thesis Preparation1 section
- TAPS 2001A — Intertextuality, Interconnectivity: A Performative Sonnet Approach (ARTS 2001)1 section
- TAPS 2010M — Digital Performance (MUSC 2210)1 section
- TAPS 2050 — Dramaturgy1 section
- TAPS 2100 — Seminar in Performance Studies and Theatrical Theory1 section
- TAPS 2120 — Revolution as a Work of Art1 section
- TAPS 2200A — Abstraction and Resistance1 section
- TAPS 2200B — Neoliberalism and Performance1 section
- TAPS 2200E — Historiography1 section
- TAPS 2200G — Performance, Photography, and the Live Border1 section
- TAPS 2200I — Wittgenstein, Writing and Performance1 section
- TAPS 2200K — Digital Performance (MUSC 2210)1 section
- TAPS 2200N — Liveness: Performance and Neoanimism in Late Capitalism1 section
- TAPS 2200T — Who Else: mimesis, performance, psyche1 section
- TAPS 2200Z — Embodiment, Materiality, and Cultural Production1 section
- TAPS 2270B — Performance in a Virtual World (MUSC 2270B)1 section
- TAPS 2300 — Pedagogy Seminar1 section
- TAPS 2300A — Graduate Seminar in Performance Studies: The Vulnerability Artist1 section
- TAPS 2300B — Professionalization Seminar1 section
- TAPS 2310 — Graduate Playwriting1 section
- TAPS 2400A — Concepts of Space and Time in Media Discourses (HMAN 2970C)1 section
- TAPS 2450 — Exchange Scholar Program1 section
- TAPS 2505 — Fundamentals of Acting: Modern and Contemporary Realism1 section
- TAPS 2515 — Acting Technique: Fundamentals of Physical Awareness1 section
- TAPS 2535 — Directing 1: Fundamentals in Analysis and Action for Brown/Trinity MFA Actors and Directors1 section
- TAPS 2545 — Dramaturgy1 section
- TAPS 2555 — Advanced Acting: Modern and Contemporary Realism1 section
- TAPS 2565 — Acting Technique II: Strength, Expansion and Articulation1 section
- TAPS 2575 — Theatre History in a Changing Present1 section
- TAPS 2585 — Directing II: Collaborative Communication1 section
- TAPS 2605 — Fundamentals of Acting: Shakespeare and Classical Verse1 section
- TAPS 2615 — Acting Technique III: Poetic Expression1 section
- TAPS 2625 — Playwriting Dramaturgy Practicum1 section
- TAPS 2635 — Directing III: The Director's Vision1 section
- TAPS 2645 — Fall Directing Practicum1 section
- TAPS 2655 — Advanced Acting: Shakespeare and Classical Verse1 section
- TAPS 2665 — Acting Technique IV: Creativity and Virtuosity1 section
- TAPS 2675 — Advanced Playwriting1 section
- TAPS 2685 — Directing IV: Special Topics1 section
- TAPS 2695 — Spring Directing Practicum1 section
- TAPS 2705 — Third Year Practicum: The Actor as Creator1 section
- TAPS 2715 — Professional Development and Performance1 section
- TAPS 2735 — Directing V: Advanced Directing - Directing Seminar1 section
- TAPS 2755 — Third Year Practicum: The Actor as Total Theatre Artist1 section
- TAPS 2765 — Professional Development and Performance - Spring1 section
- TAPS 2775 — Directing Seminar1 section
- TAPS 2890A — Theatricality: Labor, Time, Affect1 section
- TAPS 2970 — Comprehensive Examination Preparation1 section
- TAPS 2975 — Thesis Workshop1 section
- TAPS 2980 — Graduate Level Independent Reading and Research1 section
- TAPS 2981 — Master's Thesis Research1 section
- TAPS 2982 — Graduate Level Independent Reading & Research - 0.5 credit1 section
- TAPS 2990 — Thesis Preparation1 section
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