Performing Literature: Advanced ((4 Credits))

Catalog description

In this course, students will learn how to analyze, adapt, and perform literature in a range of genres and styles. The student will choose selected poetry, short story excerpts, and nonfiction materials as source material for developing a series of short solo performances. Students will be encouraged to incorporate an experimental use of movement, sound, music and visual elements in the staging process. The course will examine relevant concepts, practices, and processes of interpretation and performance. The performer’s position as cultural critic and/or ethnographer will be addressed. Students should have advanced-level critical thinking and writing skills.