First or second-year students interested in exploring the range of offerings in Theater, Dance & Media are encouraged to begin with these introductory courses that count twoards concentration credit.

*Note: While the classes below emphasize the interdisciplinary connections between theater, dance, and media, for ease of reference in this catalog, they are grouped according to the discipline prioritized in the course content.

Is acting or directing your passion? Are you unclear about what devised theater is but game to try it out? Interested in how a show comes together?

The following classes are some that allow you to explore these crafts at a college level and even participate in a professionally directed show.

FRSEMR 35N: The Art and Craft of Acting
TDM 90AR/BR: Production Studio
TDM 109: Beginning Acting Through Scene Study and Monologue Work
TDM 120: What's so Funny?: Introduction to Improvisational Comedy
TDM 130R: Directing

Would you like to explore writing for the stage or screen?

TDM CKR: Introduction to Playwriting Workshop
TDM 164H: Playwriting: Ritual Practice and Curious Worlds
TDM 165H: Playwriting: Intersecting Americas
ENGLISH CTV: Writing for Television: Developing the Pilot: Workshop

Do you want to understand how the stage can change the way we understand ethnic, social, and national identities?

TDM 180L: Before and Beyond Angels: The AIDS epidemic in live arts, culture and protest
TDM 181B: Street Dance Activism: Co-choreographic Praxis as Activism
TDM 182B: Black Arts Movement to #blacklivesmatter
TDM 187B Collective Protocols as Socially Engaged Art

Are you interested in opportunities to explore a new physical practice? Or to learn how movement connects to other fields?

TDM 143: GAGA Movement
TDM 149: Latinx Performance: Embodied Intersections of Latin Dance, Music, and Communal Practice
TDM 146L: Foundations in Movement + Technology
TDM 148P: Koteba: Bamana Performative Traditions

Or would you like to advance your current performance and movement research?

TDM 90DR Production Studio: Harvard Dance Project
TDM 134: Artistic Processes (+)

Eager to explore how media culture and technology has changed the landscape of the performing arts? Wondering how media functions on the stage and how forms of theater and dance have been radically changed by innovations in digital technologies?

TDM 162B: Adapations: Repurposing Others' Tales
TDM 187B: Collective Protocols as Socially Engaged Art

Have you wondered how designers conjure up visual and auditory worlds on stage? Are you interested in designing and fabricating projections, costumes, sets, sounds, and lights for theater, dance or performance?

TDM 150 Directorial Concepts and Set Design of the 20th and 21st Centuries
TDM 151 Design Foundations: Scenography Studio 2
TDM 154: Designing with Light
TDM 1692: Singer + Song = Story

Theater, Dance & Media

Exploratory Pathways