Interdisciplinary Arts 0230 - Setting the Stage: Scenery and Costumes

There are processes designers in the theatre must undertake to realize the physical world of a play. Within the performing arts, no single aspect of design exists in isolation and no designer should fly solo. Moving through a series of individual and group exercises, students will begin to develop their own process toward expressing the passion of a theatre work through their designs. Throughout the semester, students will develop a design vocabulary that allows for collaboration and interplay, while producing unified and coherent design work. This semester particular emphasis will be placed on scenic and costume design. Students will be introduced to the tools of design communication: drafting, models, rendering, etc. as they learn to discuss and to respond to performance works. Keywords: design, theatre, scenery, costumes, performance

Time and Narrative Lab fee: $40. Students in this course can expect to spend 6 to 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.