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Your search for courses · during 25FA, 26WI, 26SP · tagged with THEA Practical · returned 11 results

  • DANC 150 Contact Improvisation 1 credits

    This is a course in techniques of spontaneous dancing shared by two or more people through a common point of physical contact. Basic skills such as support, counterbalance, rolling, falling and flying will be taught and developed in an environment of mutual creativity.

    • Fall 2025, Spring 2026
    • ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
    • DANC Movement Practice & Performance THEA Practical
    • DANC  150.01 Fall 2025

    • Faculty:Kristin Van Loon 🏫 👤
    • Size:20
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • M, WWeitz Center 165 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • DANC  150.01 Spring 2026

    • Faculty:Arwen Wilder 🏫 · Kristin Van Loon 🏫 👤
    • Size:20
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • M, WWeitz Center 165 12:30pm-1:40pm
  • DANC 189 Music Theatre Practicum 1 credits

    This course is designed for dancers who have auditioned and been cast for the Theater and Dance Department musical. Students will learn and rehearse choreography for the show and will perform in the mainstage  musical theater production.  To register students will waitlist for the course and then enroll with permission from the instructor. Students taking this course should plan to register for THEA 190 in the term of the performance (the following term).

    Extra Time Required: Rehearsal with the entire cast, including all technical & Dress rehearsals and performances in the Spring Term.

    Waitlist Only

    • Winter 2026
    • ARP, Arts Practice
    • This course requires an audition and permission from the instructor.

      To request permission, follow the instructions for requesting a prerequisite override.

      Please note: the link will open in a new window. Once you have received permission from the instructor, you will be able to return to this page to register for the course.

    • CL: 100 level DANC Movement Practice & Performance THEA Practical
    • DANC  189.01 Winter 2026

    • Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • Extra Time Required: Rehearsal with the entire cast, including all technical & Dress rehearsals and performances in the Spring Term.

      Waitlist Only

      The meeting time for this course will be determined after registration when all participants can be consulted on their availability. Please reach out to the instructor with any questions.

  • DANC 253 Movement for the Performer 3 credits

    This course investigates the structure and function of the body through movement and how it can be applied to the stage work of an actor, dancer and or singer.  Included will be a variety of somatic and performance approaches (Alexander Technique, improvisation Viewpoints, stage combat). The emphasis will be to discover effortless movement, body awareness, balance in the body and an integration of self in moving.

    • Fall 2025
    • ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
    • CL: 200 level THEA Practical DANC Movement Practice & Performance
    • DANC  253.01 Fall 2025

    • Faculty:Daphne McCoy 🏫 👤
    • Size:20
    • M, WWeitz Center 165 9:50am-11:00am
  • DANC 254 Jazz Dance: Roots and Grooves 3 credits

    This course positions jazz and related social dance styles as forms with African diasporic roots and American branches. Composed of 60% in-class movement investigation and 40% both in-class and out of class reading, viewing, writing, and creating, Jazz Dance: Roots and Grooves will ask students to invest in how the elements of groove, improvisation and interaction unite different approaches to jazz and make it a form that appreciates the past, centers the present and innovates for the future. Some dance experience recommended.

    • Winter 2026
    • ARP, Arts Practice PE, Physical Education
    • AFST Arts Practice CL: 200 level THEA Practical AMST Production Consumption of Culture AMST Race Ethnicity Indigeneity DANC History Theory Literature DANC Movement Practice & Performance
    • DANC  254.01 Winter 2026

    • Faculty:Erinn Liebhard 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • M, WWeitz Center 165 9:50am-11:00am
  • DANC 268 The Body as Choreographer 6 credits

    "The pleasure of the text is that moment when my body pursues its own ideas-for my body does not have the same ideas I do." -Roland Barthes. Through guided movement sessions we will explore the body as a source for ideas. Using "Authentic Movement," experiential anatomy practices and compositional strategies, students will generate several small compositions and one larger gallery project exploring alternative spaces and the influx of various media (movement, text, images, technology, objects, sites, fabric). This choreography "lab" will help answer the question: How do you make a dance? For both beginning and advanced dance students.

    • Fall 2025
    • ARP, Arts Practice
    • CL: 200 level DANC Choreography THEA Practical
    • DANC  268.01 Fall 2025

    • Faculty:Judith Howard 🏫 👤
    • Size:25
    • T, THWeitz Center 165 1:15pm-3:00pm
    • T, THWeitz Center 168 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • THEA 110 Beginning Acting 6 credits

    Introduces students to fundamental acting skills, including preliminary physical training, improvisational techniques, and basic scene work. The course includes analysis of plays as bases for performance, with a strong emphasis on characterization.

    Extra Time for rehearsal

    • Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026
    • ARP, Arts Practice
    • CL: 100 level THEA Minor Acting THEA Practical
    • THEA  110.01 Fall 2025

    • Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
    • Size:16
    • M, WWeitz Center 172 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FWeitz Center 172 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • Sophomore priority; Extra Time for rehearsal

    • THEA  110.02 Fall 2025

    • Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
    • Size:16
    • T, THWeitz Center 172 3:10pm-4:55pm
    • Sophomore Priority

      Extra Time Required: for rehearsal

    • THEA  110.01 Winter 2026

    • Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
    • Size:16
    • M, WWeitz Center 172 1:50pm-3:00pm
    • FWeitz Center 172 2:20pm-3:20pm
    • Extra Time for rehearsal

      Sophomore Priority

    • THEA  110.02 Winter 2026

    • Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
    • Size:16
    • T, THWeitz Center 172 10:10am-11:55am
    • Extra Time Required: for rehearsal

    • THEA  110.01 Spring 2026

    • Faculty:Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
    • Size:16
    • M, WWeitz Center 172 9:50am-11:00am
    • FWeitz Center 172 9:40am-10:40am
    • Extra Time for rehearsal

      Sophomore Priority

  • 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.

    • Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026
    • ARP, Arts Practice
    • CL: 100 level THEA Minor Acting THEA Practical
    • THEA  185.01 Fall 2025

    • Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
    • Size:16
    • T, THWeitz Center 172 10:10am-11:55am
    • THEA  185.01 Winter 2026

    • Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
    • Size:16
    • M, WWeitz Center 172 12:30pm-1:40pm
    • FWeitz Center 172 1:10pm-2:10pm
    • THEA  185.01 Spring 2026

    • Faculty:David Wiles 🏫 👤
    • Size:16
    • T, THWeitz Center 172 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • THEA 198 New Play Workshop 2 credits

    This course focuses on rehearsing a new play in preparation for a staged reading. Students will learn essential techniques in analyzing, discussing, producing, and performing new work.  The course will be run like a professional new play workshop and will thus also prepare students for post-graduate careers.

    • Fall 2025, Winter 2026
    • ARP, Arts Practice
    • This course requires permission from the instructor.

      To request permission, follow the instructions for requesting a prerequisite override.

      Please note: the link will open in a new window. Once you have received permission from the instructor, you will be able to return to this page to register for the course.

    • THEA Practical CL: 100 level
    • THEA  198.01 Fall 2025

    • Faculty:Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • FWeitz Center 172 3:30pm-6:30pm
    • THEA  198.01 Winter 2026

    • Faculty:Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • FWeitz Center 235 1:00pm-3:30pm
  • THEA 199 Theater Practicum 3 credits

    This course is designed for students who have major responsibilities in Carleton Players productions as Stage Managers, Actors and Designers. Students enrolled in this class will have more responsibility and be expected to commit to more time than the students registered in Theater 190, including additional time for research, design and role preparation. Students in this course will get in-depth learning experiences in the processes most central to the discipline; the creation of performances. Students will waitlist for the course; enrollment in the course will be by instructor’s permission depending on the responsibilities students have.

    Course will meet weeks 2 through 6, the drop add period will be the end of week 2. Open only to students in THEA 199 cohort

    • Fall 2025, Winter 2026, Spring 2026
    • ARP, Arts Practice
    • Student is a member of the THEA 199 cohort.

    • CL: 100 level THEA Practical
    • THEA  199.01 Fall 2025

    • Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • THEA  199.01 Winter 2026

    • Faculty:Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • THEA  199.01 Spring 2026

    • Faculty:Jeanne Willcoxon 🏫 👤
    • Size:30
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
  • THEA 211 Intermediate Acting 6 credits

    This course builds on the core principles of THEA 110 through scene study, improvisational exercises, and script analysis. Students will practice the techniques of Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen, and Stella Adler as they deepen their ability to live truthfully in imaginary circumstances.

    Expected preparation: Theater 110 or significant acting experience. 

    Extra Time Required

    • Winter 2026
    • ARP, Arts Practice
    • CL: 200 level THEA Practical
    • THEA  211.01 Winter 2026

    • Faculty:Andrew Carlson 🏫 👤
    • Size:16
    • T, THWeitz Center 172 1:15pm-3:00pm
  • THEA 246 Playwriting 6 credits

    A laboratory to explore the craft of playwriting, concentrating on structure, action and character. The class uses games, exercises, scenes, with the goal of producing a short play by the end of the term.

    • Fall 2025
    • ARP, Arts Practice
    • CL: 200 level ENCW Creative Wtg Workshop THEA Minor Playwriting THEA Practical
    • THEA  246.01 Fall 2025

    • Faculty:Andrew Rosendorf 🏫 👤
    • Size:15
    • Grading:S/CR/NC
    • T, THWeitz Center 136 1:15pm-3:00pm

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