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THEA 185 The Speaking Voice 6 credits
This course seeks to provide a practical understanding of the human voice, its anatomy, functioning and the underlying support mechanisms of body and breath. Using techniques rooted in the work of Berry, Linklater and Rodenburg, the course will explore the development of physical balance and ease and the awareness of the connection between thinking and breathing that will lead to the effortless, powerful and healthy use of the voice in public presentations and in dramatic performance.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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THEA 185.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THWeitz Center 172 1:15pm-3:00pm
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THEA 195 Acting Shakespeare 6 credits
Though widely read, Shakespeare’s plays were written to be performed. This acting class, designed for students with no prior experience with Shakespeare, will explore approaches to performance with an emphasis on the use of the First Folio. Students will create performances using Shakespeare’s approaches to rhetoric, imagery and structure while examining some of the plays’ principal themes. Video and audio recordings will be used to develop a critical perspective on acting Shakespeare with an emphasis on the differing demands of live and recorded performance.
- Winter 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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THEA 195.00 Winter 2025
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:16
- T, THWeitz Center 172 1:15pm-3:00pm
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THEA 245 Directing 6 credits
Although many directors begin their artistic careers in some other discipline (usually acting), there is a set of skills particular to the director’s art that is essential to creating life on stage. Central is the ability to translate dramatic action and narrative into the dimensions of theatrical time and space: the always-present challenge of “page to stage.” In this course, students will learn methods of text analysis strategic to this process as well as the rudiments of using that analysis to generate effective staging and powerful acting. Having mastered the fundamentals, students will then explore and enhance their theatrical imagination, that creative mode unique to the medium of live performance. Class time will be devoted to work on three major projects and almost daily exercises.
- Spring 2025
- ARP, Arts Practice
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THEA 245.00 Spring 2025
- Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THWeitz Center 172 10:10am-11:55am