Theater and Dance 240 - Ensemble Theatre Making

Calling all writers, actors, directors, and musicians! Let’s create a show together. Creativity and collaboration are concepts found in all disciplines and regularly requested. This course is a practical, on-your-feet introduction to collaborative and devised theatre-making as an ensemble of artists. Students will be introduced to different processes of ensemble theatre-making  through critical texts and classroom practice. Students will be expected to work with various approaches, as performers and creators, through small-scale, class-based performance projects in parallel to a large ensemble project to be presented at the end of the semester. Prerequisite: Any Five-College acting, writing, performance, or music-making class, previous experience in any of the theatre-related disciplines via resume/samples, or consent of the instructor. Limited to 22 students. Spring semester. Professor SEVAN.

How to handle overenrollment: THDA majors given priority. Instructor will choose students from those who come to the first day of class based on a balance of levels and class years.

Students who enroll in this course will likely encounter and be expected to engage in the following intellectual skills, modes of learning, and assessment: Regular attendance and class participation, class discussion, reading, and self-reflection/project-response writing assignments.