Studies the development of the scenic design as theatrical environment, from script analysis through research to completed scenic design.

Exercises and scene work emphasizing the development of the actor's vocal and physical resources as a means of creating and communicating character, emotion, and relationships. Prerequisite: DRAM 2020 and instructor permission

Introduces principles of vocal health, provides practical techniques for meeting the voice and speech demands of daily life and performance, and promotes life-long exploration of the speaking voice and the spoken word. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

In this practice-based course, students will reexamine relations to their environment and generate strategies for a new environmental ethics that calls a human-centered world into question. Through reading, conversing, and moving, students consider how somatic and artistic practices might shift ecological understandings. Students will ask questions of and through modes of perception and experiment with an expanding empathy to enact new relations.

Investigates the relationship between dancing bodies, cinematography, and video editing. Exploring innovative ways to film movement, we examine the relationship between the moving body and camera. Students gain exposure to various methodologies and practices that can be directly applied to individual projects. We discuss parallels between choreography, cinematography, and video editing, and how these integrate to form the art of Screendance.

Introduces the art and craft of playwriting, focusing on short exercises and in-class writing assignments. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

This course provides a practical forum to employ and integrate a diverse array of existing and emerging media technologies into live performance and performative storytelling. Students will explore and experiment with new media-infused design approaches to enhance the narrative and to actively engage, communicate, and interact with the audience.

A directed project-based study offered to upper-level students. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

A directed study in acting or performance offered to upper-level students.Prerequisite: Instructor permission.

Allows upper level students to pursue advanced creative and/or scholarly research in dance as an independent project. Students can identify their area of focus for in depth investigations including, but not limited to: Choregraphy, Screendance, Performance, Performance Studies, Dance Pedagogy, etc.