Performance Making V

Catalog description

This course continues the in-depth and rigorous sequence of Performance Making classes in which students work collaboratively and are the generators of original work. This course focuses on adapting literature to the stage. For the first part of the semester, students work from a common source text and are guided through a process of theatrical adaptation exploring and utilizing on all the languages of the theater - visual, sonic, physical, spatial, musical, textual. In the latter part of the semester, students work in self-selected ensembles on short stories that are chosen by the groups and approved by the professor to being to develop their own original adaptations.