Film & Media Studies 345 - Performance Studio

Fall
2015
01
4.00
Peter Schmitz
TTH 11:30AM-12:50PM
Amherst College
FAMS-345-01-1516F
WEBS 122
pschmitz@amherst.edu
FAMS-345-01,THDA-353-01

(Offered as THDA 353 and FAMS 345.)  In this advanced course in the techniques of creating performance, each student will create and rehearse a performance piece that develops and incorporates original choreography, text, music, sounds and / or video. Improvisational and collaborative structures and approaches among and within different media will be investigated.  The final performance pieces will be presented in the Holden Theater. 


Two ninety-minute class sessions per week.  There will be weekly mandatory showings.  These showings are a working document of the important and  necessary vicissitudes within a creative process.   


Requisite: THDA 252 or the equivalent and consent of the instructor. Fall semester. Visiting Resident Artist Schmitz.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.
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