Upper-Division

THEA 100L Performance and Conquest

Looks at use of theater/performance in the U.S. and Latin America by the state, oppositional groups, and theater and performance practitioners to solidify or challenge structures of power beginning with pre-Colombian indigenous civilizations, 16th-century Spanish/European conquest, national independence movements, to the U.S. Latino diaspora.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Winter

THEA 107 Design Studio: Masks and Makeup

Advanced work in the design and techniques of stage make-up and masks.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): THEA 10. Enrollment is restricted to theater arts majors; open at the end of priority enrollment if space permits.

THEA 110 Advanced Stage Technology

An investigation into the intricacies of production, focusing on structural, spatial, and visual concepts, creation and execution of scenic units, drafting, and related areas of technology. Designed to facilitate in-depth studies of specific production problems.

Credits

5

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): THEA 10.

THEA 125 Shakespeare Off the Page

Offers non-actors, as well as actors, an enhanced understanding of Shakespeare and provides the ability to speak with greater clarity and vividness through reading aloud selected plays and sonnets. Explores work meanings, scansion, phrasing, breathing, tone, articulation, vowels, and consonants.

Credits

5

THEA 129 Advanced Ballet

Continued study of classical ballet technique as a serious, expressive art form. Work includes longer combinations, air work, and style study in a regular class routine. Audition at first class meeting.

Credits

2

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Fall, Winter, Spring

THEA 130 Intermediate Dance Theory and Technique

A progression from the simple phrasing and articulation of beginning technique class to more complex material requiring more acute perceptive skills and richer dynamic range. Emphasis is on both alignment and maintaining the kinetic integrity of the body while moving through space.

Credits

5

Instructor

Gerald Casel

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): THEA 30 or THEA 31 or permission of instructor.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

General Education Code

IM

Quarter offered

Winter

THEA 131 Advanced Dance Theory and Technique

Advanced instruction in developing the dancer's mind/body, combined with contemporary movement theory and practice.

Credits

5

Instructor

Edward Warburton

Requirements

Prerequisite(s): THEA 30 or THEA 31 or permission of instructor.

Repeatable for credit

Yes

Quarter offered

Spring

THEA 131P Postmodern Dance II

Continued study of postmodern dance theory and technique. Focus on advanced compositional practice, theatrical applications, and critical analysis of contemporary postmodern dance choreographers in the U.S. and worldwide. Audition at first class meeting.

Credits

5

Instructor

Edward Warburton

Repeatable for credit

Yes

General Education Code

IM

THEA 156 Play Development Workshop

Hands on study and exploration of the process of developing a new script from the perspective of the playwright, the actor, and the director. Students enrolling in this course as playwrights are selected on the basis of submissions turned in the previous quarter. Students taking the course as directors are required to obtain consent of the instructor. Other students may enroll as usual.

Credits

5

Repeatable for credit

Yes

General Education Code

PR-C

THEA 161B Classical Comedy and Its Theater

Examination of selected plays of Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence, with workshop presentation of scenes from the plays.

Credits

5

THEA 161G The Development of Modern Drama: Post-World War I European Drama

An examination of the drama of continental Europe from 1918 to the present from an explicitly theatrical viewpoint, involving scene study, investigation of staging techniques, and relevant dramatic criticism. Selected plays from Antonin Artaud, Beckett, Brecht, Camus, Genet, Frisch, de Ghelderode, Gombrowicz, Ionesco, Mrozek, Pirandello, Sartre are read.

Credits

5

THEA 163D O'Neill in the American Theater

Selected plays of Eugene O'Neill studied in the context of the artistic, social, and political ferment in the American theater during the period in which he worked (1913-1953).

Credits

5

THEA 163F Brecht's Theater (in translation)

A study of three basic periods of Brecht's theater, poetry, and prose: 1918-1934 Munich and Berlin; 1933-1947 Exile; 1948-1956 Return to Berlin. Emphasis is on Brecht as theater theorist and stage director. Scene work and papers are required.

Credits

5