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Theater Arts Topics - Suburbia

Directed practice in acting, production, or design on a sustained theater piece, either one-act or full length, from pre-rehearsal preparation to workshop production. Consult Theater Arts Office. Includes directed practice in stagecraft. Dramashop rehearses a production of Eric Bogosian’s play “sub…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

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Traditions in American Concert Dance: Gender and Autobiography

This course explores the forms, contents, and context of world traditions in dance that played a crucial role in shaping American concert dance. For example, we will identify dances from an African American vernacular tradition that were transferred from the social space to the concert stage. We wi…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

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Indistinguishable From... Magic as Interface, Technology, and Tradition

With a focus on the creation of functional prototypes and practicing real magical crafts, this class combines theatrical illusion, game design, sleight of hand, machine learning, camouflage, and neuroscience to explore how ideas from ancient magic and modern stage illusion can inform cutting edge t…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

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Anthropology of the Middle East

This course examines traditional performances of the Arabic-speaking populations of the Middle East and North Africa. Starting with the history of the ways in which the West has discovered, translated and written about the Orient, we will consider how power and politics play roles in the production…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

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Modern Drama

This course analyzes major modern plays featuring works by Shaw, Pirandello, Beckett, Brecht, Williams, Soyinka, Hwang, Churchill, Wilson, Frayn, Stoppard, Deveare Smith, and Kushner. The class particularly considers performance, sociopolitical and aesthetic contexts, and the role of theater in the…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

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Script Analysis

This class focuses on reading a script theatrically with a view to mounting a coherent production. Through careful, intensive reading of a variety of plays from different periods and different aesthetics, a pattern emerges for discerning what options exist for interpretating a script. Students disc…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

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The Craft of Costume Design

This class provides an overview of some of the techniques used in creating costume pieces that are crafted rather than sewn. We will use a variety of materials and techniques to create specific costume pieces while at the same time exploring alternative applications possible for each material/techn…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

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English Renaissance Drama: Theatre and Society in the Age of Shakespeare

Shakespeare “doth bestride the narrow world” of the English Renaissance “like a colossus,” leaving his contemporaries “walk under his large legs and peep about” to find themselves in “dishonourable graves.” This course aims in part to correct this grave injustice by surveying the extraordinary outp…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

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Lighting Design for the Theatre

This class explores the artistry of Lighting Design. Students gain an overall technical working knowledge of the tools of the trade, and learn how, and where to apply them to a final design. However essential technical expertise is, the class stresses the artistic, conceptual, collaborative side of…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

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Theater and Cultural Diversity in the U.S.

This course explores contemporary American theatrical expression as it may be organized around issues of gender and cultural identity. This exploration will include the analysis of performances, scripts, and video documentation, as well as the invention of original documents of theatrical expressio…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

MIT OpenCourseWare

Theater Arts Topics

Directed practice in acting, directing, or design on a sustained theater piece, either one-act or full length, from pre-rehearsal preparation to workshop production.

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

MIT OpenCourseWare

Introduction to Drama

Drama combines the literary arts of storytelling and poetry with the world of live performance. As a form of ritual as well as entertainment, drama has served to unite communities and challenge social norms, to vitalize and disturb its audiences. In order to understand this rich art form more fully…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

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Dance Theory and Composition

This course introduces students to the art and formal ideologies of contemporary dance. We explore the aesthetic and technical underpinnings of contemporary dance composition. Basic compositional techniques are discussed and practiced, with an emphasis on principles such as weight, space, time, eff…

  • MIT
  • Self-paced
  • Free course
  • Advanced

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Beginning Costume Design and Construction

This is an intermediate workshop designed for students who have a basic understanding of the principles of theatrical design and who want a more intensive study of costume design and the psychology of clothing. Students develop designs that emerge through a process of character analysis, based on t…

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  • Free course
  • Advanced

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