This course is designed to develop advanced stage combat techniques in the student actor to prepare for professional situations wherein these abilities need to be demonstrated. Additionally, more advanced and complicated unarmed techniques are developed. An introduction to the field of tap dancing, beginning with basic single, double, triple, and quadruple sounds, simple combinations, rhythmic patterning, and routines. The course contains material for the beginning to the intermediate level and is designed for the novice. An introductory course in the problems and practices of playwriting.
Emphasis is placed on the development and revision of a one-act play.
Students also are acquainted with opportunities for production and publication. A study of the history and development of dramatic theory and criticism from the foundations in Plato and Aristotle through the modern concepts of Artaud and Grotowski. An advanced performance course for the senior theatre studies student who is majoring in performance studies. Placing emphasis on the student's imminent entry into the professional theatre, this course combines advanced study of audition techniques, the preparation of audience materials, the business elements of the theatre, advanced acting, dance, mime, and physical theatre. A study of the development of dramatic literature and theatrical production, from the Greeks through Oriental theatre to Shakespeare, with emphasis on reading and analyzing representative plays from each period.