Film & Media Studies 345 - Performance Studio
Fall
2016
01
4.00
Wendy Woodson
F 01:00PM-04:00PM
Amherst College
FAMS-345-01-1617F
WEBS 117
wwoodson@amherst.edu
THDA-353-01,FAMS-345-01
(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. Professor Woodson.