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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. May be repeat for credit.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 6 units total)

TAPS 120A: Acting I: Fundamentals of Acting

A substantive introduction to the basics of the craft of acting, this course gives all incoming students the foundation of a common vocabulary. Students will learn fundamental elements of dramatic analysis, and how to apply it in action. Topics include scene analysis, environment work, psychological and physical scoring, and development of a sound and serviceable rehearsal technique. Scene work will be chosen from accessible, contemporary, and realistic plays. Outside rehearsal time required.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE

TAPS 122M: Main Stage Theater Project (MUSIC 122M)

The Main Stage Theater Project provides students the opportunity to receive units for participating in a TAPS Main Stage Show. About the Autumn 2023-24 show: Performance maker, director, and choreographer Erika Chong Shuch will return to TAPS to engage a group of student collaborators to develop a new performance work that will premiere through TAPS in Fall 2023. Leaning into Jenny Odell's book How To Do Nothing as a springboard, the cast will devise playful, performative structures that invite audiences into a contemplation of time, memory, and stillness.
Terms: Aut, Win | Units: 3-5 | Repeatable 4 times (up to 20 units total)

TAPS 122V: Voice II: Shakespeare and Greeks

How does the actor authentically meet a passionate text that goes beyond everyday speech? In this course, students will practice bringing to life the language of Shakespeare and classical Greek playwrights. Students will explore passionate thought, including metaphor, argument, rhythm, imagery, and sound to realize these powerful texts fully and joyfully. The course will involve discovering the structures in the speeches and scenes which provide clues to the actor as to how to perform them. Using the voice safely with full breath support (so as to avoid injury) while releasing extended sounds like laughing, wailing, crying, and screaming will be explored. Various translations of the Greek texts will be used including those of Luis Alfaro, Declan Donnellan, Anne Carson, Timberlake Wertenbaker, Rush Rehm, Ellen McLaughlin, and others. This class is designed to be the natural next class after taking Voice for the Actor (Voice 1). Students will leave the class with at least one classical monologue suitable to use for auditions. Pre-requisite: Voice for the Actor ( TAPS 121V) or approval of the instructor
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: Hunt, S. (PI)

TAPS 127W: Introduction to Clown

This course is an introduction to the world and play of the theatrical clown, constructed for actors to explore truth in size, vulnerability, and a personal sense of humor. Students will develop their ability to play with the audience, a greater capacity for freedom and abandon onstage, and a healthier relationship to failure and human idiocy. Areas of study include partnership and status play, comic rhythm and timing, the structure and development of comic material, and the beginnings of a personal eccentric Clown character. All coursework will be experiential and practical. Some stage experience is recommended but not required. Some outside rehearsal/investigation time required.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors: Chapman, M. (PI)

TAPS 131M: Light in Art & Architecture

This course will introduce students to light artists working historically and today. We will also cover basic architectural lighting concepts and the relationship between installation light art and architecture. Students will create several light art pieces and a site-specific architectural re-design of a building on campus.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: Mejia, C. (PI)

TAPS 133: Set Design

This class introduces students to the creative and collaborative process of Scenic Design. The course covers an overview of basic design theory and its applications and explores how styles in art, architecture and design have evolved over time. The class provides a vocabulary for the discussion, appreciation, participation and evaluation of theatrical design specifically as it relates to the scenic elements of the production. Students will become comfortable with expressing ideas and relaying information through sketching, storyboarding, and rendering- both by hand and using available digital tools. This is a project-based class and course work involves engaging with readings, lecture material, research, critical analysis, and rendering with basic digital tools and physical prototyping.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE | Repeatable 2 times (up to 8 units total)
Instructors: Ball, N. (PI)

TAPS 134: Stage Management Project

For students assigned to a Stage Management team for productions in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies. TAPS 34 is a prerequisite.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr | Units: 3-8 | Repeatable for credit
Instructors: Kumaran, L. (PI)

TAPS 135M: Introduction to Multimedia Production

Students will learn filmmaking basics and apply them by creating a number of short multimedia projects to be shown and discussed in class. Hands-on practical instruction will cover the fundamentals of story, cinematography, sound recording, picture and sound editing, directing for camera, and producing. Critical analysis will focus on a variety of uses of prerecorded sound and video in theater productions, podcasts, web series and other digital media, as well as film and television.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-4 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE

TAPS 139: Pacific Ocean Worlds: A Sea of Islands (HUMCORE 139)

How do we think about the modern Pacific Ocean world? Here in California, we border this vast waterscape, which is larger than all the world's remaining oceans combined and which could easily fit all of the planet's landmasses within it. What lessons can we learn from the region's diverse and dynamic island cultures, its entangled histories, and its urgent contemporary issues? How has the Pacific impacted ideas about modernity elsewhere in the world? And what unique Oceanian modernities are emerging from the region? Engaging with a rich array of literary and performance texts, films, and artworks from the 19th to the 21st centuries, we will consider different ways in which the Pacific has been imagined. We will further explore how Pacific Islander scholars, artists, and activists have drawn on their cultural traditions and knowledge systems to create new works that respond to current challenges facing the region, including colonialism, globalization, tourism, migration, climate change, militarization, and nuclearization. This course is part of the Humanities Core: https://humanitiescore.stanford.edu.
Terms: Win | Units: 3
Instructors: Looser, D. (PI)
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