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TAPS 39: Theatre Crew

Under faculty guidance, working backstage on Drama Department productions. Open to any student interested in gaining back stage experience. Night and weekend time required.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum | Units: 1-3 | Repeatable 4 times (up to 15 units total)

TAPS 39D: Theater Performance: Prosser Stage Management

For students stage mananging a Department of Drama Senior Project or Assistant Staage managing a Department Drama production
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 2-4 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: Apperson, L. (PI)

TAPS 41N: Inventing Modern Theatre: Georg Büchner and Frank Wedekind (GERMAN 41N)

The German writers Georg Büchner (1813-1837) and Frank Wedekind (1864-1918). Many of the most important theater and film directors of the last century, including Max Reinhardt, G. W. Pabst, Orson Welles, Robert Wilson, and Werner Herzog, have wrestled with their works, as have composers and writers from Alban Berg and Bertolt Brecht through Christa Wolf and Thalia Field. Rock artists as diverse as Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Duncan Sheik, and Metallica have recently rediscovered their urgency. Reading these works in translation and examining artistic creations they inspired. Classroom discussions and written responses; students also rehearse and present in-class performances of excerpts from the plays. The aim of these performances is not to produce polished stagings but to creatively engage with the texts and their interpretive traditions. No previous theatrical experience required.
Last offered: Winter 2014 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-CE

TAPS 70: Intro to Directing

an Intro to Directing class with a special section for directing musicals taught by Ryan Purcell, Associate Artistic Director for the Magic Theatre...more details coming soon.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3
Instructors: Purcell, R. (PI)

TAPS 101P: Intro to Directing and Devising Theatre

An introductory workshop class that explores a range of theatre exercises and techniques in order to create, perform, and compose theatre. Students will work with original texts such as Beckett, Pinter, Churchill as well as creating their own performance texts and scores to make original, devised performance. Students will be encouraged to think critically about various compositional themes and ideas including the relationship between form and content, aesthetics, proximity, audience, space. Students will work collaboratively learning how to problem solve and deal with creative challenges as they create original performance works. Students will work towards creating a short original performance piece.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE

TAPS 103: Beginning Improvising

The improvisational theater techniques that teach spontaneity, cooperation, team building, and rapid problem solving, emphasizing common sense, attention to reality, and helping your partner. Based on TheatreSports by Keith Johnstone. Readings, papers, and attendance at performances of improvisational theater. Limited enrollment. Improv, Improvisation, creativity and creative expression.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE

TAPS 104: Intermediate Improvisation

This class is the continued study of improvisational theater with a focus on stage skills, short and long form performance formats, and offstage applications of collaborative creativity. It is open to any students who have taken TAPS 103 or have previous onstage improv experience AND consent of the instructor.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 6 units total)
Instructors: Klein, D. (PI)

TAPS 105V: Improv & Design

Improv & Design is a wildly practical class exploring the intersection of Improvisational Theater & Design Thinking. Spring quarter 2015, Improv & Design is about creating joyful disruption in the world around us. Students will be bringing the gift of improv out from the stage or the classroom into the world in real time, using design thinking principles to try things, iterate and gather feedback.nnEach week, we will cover a fundamental principle of improvisation. Topics might include playfulness, connection, resilience, collaboration, inspiration, optimism, generosity, presence, listening, accepting offers, and storytelling. Teams of students will then design small experiments to run in the real world that week to increase ordinary people's experience of that particular mindset or improvisational principle.nnThe class is open to undergraduate and graduate students at Stanford with a genuine desire to make the world a better place (today!) and a willingness to jump in and explore new ways of showing up in the world. No previous design or improv experience needed.nnOpen to undergraduate and graduate students. Students must apply for this class in order to be enrolled. Accepting 12-16 students. See d.school.stanford.edu/classes for more information.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1

TAPS 108: Introduction to Feminist Studies (AMSTUD 107, CSRE 108, FEMGEN 101)

Introduction to interdisciplinary approaches to gender, sexuality, queer, trans and feminist studies. Topics include the emergence of sexuality studies in the academy, social justice and new subjects, science and technology, art and activism, history, film and memory, the documentation and performance of difference, and relevant socio-economic and political formations such as work and the family. Students learn to think critically about race, gender, and sexuality from local and global perspectives.
Terms: Aut | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors: Brody, J. (PI)

TAPS 10AX: Acting Intensive: Theatre and Beyond, Into the World of Film

Introduction to the craft of acting for film and reinforcement of basic concepts for the experienced student. Skill-building in the areas of acting, movement, voice, and speech, utilizing material from the film and theater. In-depth work on technique, utilization of action, specificity of language, personalization, emotional truth, character, and given circumstance. Blocking of scenes live performance and video recording of performances. Final performance of the two scenes in a showcase afternoon.
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