Add/Drop Period: TDM Courses Still Enrolling

Welcome back students! Open Add/Drop runs January 12 - February 2. Looking for the perfect Theater, Dance & Media class to add to your courseload? Check out TDM courses still enrolling below! For the full course list, visit this page.

TDM 90BR: Making Horizontal Theater
Jay Stull & EllaRose Chary
Thursdays 3 - 5:45 PM

This course leads students through a new musical development process, culminating in a fully rehearsed and designed production of an original piece written collectively by students in the fall semester of Making Horizontal Theater: Collaborative Playwriting and Songwriting Made from Interviews (TDM 195HT), dramaturged by EllaRose Chary and directed by Jay Stull. The course is primarily focused on performance with a full production component and seeks serious actors and singers with intrepid ambition. Students with interests in playwriting, directing, or theatrical design are also welcome, although enrollment in the course will necessarily involve performance of some kind.

TDM 106P: Embodied Dramaturgy
Jeffrey Page
Mondays 3 - 5:45 PM

Theater and dance students will benefit from embodied dramaturgy by exploring how language, tone and physical action enlarge implicit and explicit themes. Students will analyze text through close readings and discuss the various aspects of its sociopolitical ramifications, and how those ideas are embodied in choreographic and gestural structures. Core to this course is the pairing of black playwrights with an embodied analysis to uplifting and clarifying creative and confrontational power.

TDM 185TT: Arte Útil: The Technological Turn
Tania Bruguera
Tuesdays 9 - 11:45 AM

This course explores the evolution of Arte Útil—a framework for socially engaged art—through the lens of technological innovation. Students will engage with the work of contemporary artists employing technology for civic and collective use, and will develop a final project proposing a technology-based artistic intervention grounded in the conceptual frameworks and case studies discussed throughout the semester.

TDM 186HT: Trash Aesthetics in Performance
James Stanley
Thursdays 12 - 2:45 PM

This course traces a history of trash aesthetics and the discourses surrounding them, from their emergence in the work of Jack Smith, Paul Morrissey, and John Waters in the 70s through punk, performance art and the cinema of transgression in the 80s, avant-garde theater, drag and neo-burlesque in the 90s, the mainstreaming of trash culture through high fashion, tabloid talk shows and reality television in the 00s, and back into live theater, music and social media performance in the 10s and early 20s.

TDM 194S: The Show-Tune Canon Meets the No-Show Songbook
Stew
Thursdays 3 - 5:45 PM

This course invites students to view the history of musical theater’s greatest songs through a comparative lens which places the Show-Tune-Canon in dialogue with the “No-Show-Songbook” a songbook stretching from African- American blues & jazz all the way to rock and roll, disco, punk, and beyond. What can we learn about musical theater by listening to the music that often informed it, but never made it to the stage in its authentic form?

TDM 158B: Foundations in Design: Costume Design II
Dede Ayite
Mondays 12 - 2:45 PM

Building on principles and techniques studied in Introduction to Costume Design, the goal of this course is, through practice and feedback, for students to further their ability to design clothing for live performances, film and opera. Completion of design packets thoroughly enough in order to be taken into production is imperative. Students will be challenged to design costumes focusing on dramaturgy, discovery, research and articulation of visual ideas through renderings and visual packets.

TDM 162H: Let's Make a Museum of American Theater!
Phillip Howze
Thursdays 12 - 2:45 PM

This is an advanced, interdisciplinary course suited for folks interested in visual storytelling, lost histories, performance studies, or applied theater. We’ll dive into theater history to uncover forgotten stories, cultural artifacts, manuscripts and materiality. Think of the class as equal parts research lab, rehearsal room, and creative studio, where every week we test out ideas, stage mock galleries, and invent new ways to tell the story of theater in America. The semester culminates in a public showing of our collective curatorial experiments—a staged rehearsal of what a “museum of theaters” could look like.