Performing and Media Arts 2800: Introduction to Acting
Cornell University, Spring 2015
TA with J. Ellen Gainor
An introduction to the actor's technique and performance skills, exploring the elements necessary to begin training as an actor, i.e., observation, concentration, and imagination. Focus is on physical and vocal exercises, improvisation, and text and character. There is required play reading, play attendance, and some scene study. Playwrights include Wilder, Diamond, Miller, Williams, Kushner, Hansberry, Henley, and Hwang.
Theatre 201: Acting Styles: Theatricalism and the European Avant Garde
Hamilton College, Fall 2008
TA with Carole Bellini-Sharp
20th-century performance aesthetics. Practical exploration of non-realistic theatrical methods, emphasizing challenges to Stanislavskian naturalism in the work of Meyerhold, Artaud, Grotowski and Brecht. Intense text and performance work. Other playwrights include Jarry, Wedekind, Büchner, Strindberg, Witkiewicz, Tzara, and Churchill.
Cornell University, Spring 2015
TA with J. Ellen Gainor
An introduction to the actor's technique and performance skills, exploring the elements necessary to begin training as an actor, i.e., observation, concentration, and imagination. Focus is on physical and vocal exercises, improvisation, and text and character. There is required play reading, play attendance, and some scene study. Playwrights include Wilder, Diamond, Miller, Williams, Kushner, Hansberry, Henley, and Hwang.
Theatre 201: Acting Styles: Theatricalism and the European Avant Garde
Hamilton College, Fall 2008
TA with Carole Bellini-Sharp
20th-century performance aesthetics. Practical exploration of non-realistic theatrical methods, emphasizing challenges to Stanislavskian naturalism in the work of Meyerhold, Artaud, Grotowski and Brecht. Intense text and performance work. Other playwrights include Jarry, Wedekind, Büchner, Strindberg, Witkiewicz, Tzara, and Churchill.