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TAPS 105: Advanced Improvisation

This course is a deeper dive into performance improvisation. Designed to be a small ensemble experience, we will focus on the skills of character and environment creation, narrative and performance to co-create a longer sustained story in the Bay Area Longform Improv tradition. The class culminates in a weekend of performances of improvised stories for the wider Stanford community. Available to students who have taken 103 and 104 or are members of the Stanford Improvisors. Students must confirm eligibility with instructors. Email Dan (kleinimp@stanford.edu) and Lisa (lrowland@stanford.edu) with a description of your training including quarters that you took 103 and/or 104, and with whom. If you have additional training, please describe it. Include a few lines about what you are hoping to learn in TAPS 105.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3

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

Introduction to interdisciplinary approaches to gender, sexuality, queer, trans, and feminist studies. Topics include social justice and feminist organizing, art and activism, feminist histories, the emergence of gender and sexuality studies in the academy, intersectionality and interdependence, the embodiment 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, disability, and sexuality. Includes guest lectures from faculty across the university and weekly discussion sections.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-EDP

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 120B: Acting II: Advanced Acting

In this course, students will learn how to expand character work beyond what is immediately familiar. We will continue basic practices from the first part of the sequence, and look beyond the strictly contemporary. We will approach roles drawn from more challenging dramatic texts, including those with heightened language and circumstances.nnWe will begin with a focus on strengthening the actor's skill as an interpretive artist, utilizing exercises that build the capacity for physical and emotional expressiveness. We will explore how a performing artist researches and how that research can be used to enrich and deepen performance. We will practice how to act truthfully and vividly in a variety of theatrical styles. nnStudents will practice techniques developed by Michael Chekhov, Jerzee Grotowski, and Rudolf Laban, among others. Through monologue and scene work, we will explore performance styles including commedia dell'arte, the comedy of Molière, and postmodern theatre. Our scene and monologue work will culminate the last week of school in a final performance.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE | Repeatable 2 times (up to 6 units total)

TAPS 120M: Audition and Monologue

Auditioning is an essential part of being an actor. This class will demystify the process, so that students develop the skill and confidence to prepare an effective audition. Cold reading and making committed clear acting choices in scenes and monologues will be covered. Students will learn how to choose exciting and suitable monologues that reveal the actor's individuality and skill. In the class, students will practice addressing stage fright through preparation, warmup, and breathing to focus nerves into performance vitality and ease. Several guest speakers from the theater and film industry may be featured. Students will complete the class with at least two dynamic contrasting monologues that will serve them in auditions. This class is ideal for students auditioning for theater productions, recorded media, or for acting conservatories and graduate schools. Enrollment preference given to TAPS majors and minors. Prerequisite: Fundamentals of Acting ( TAPS 120A), or approval of the instructor.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors: Hunt, S. (PI)

TAPS 121J: Singing in the Main Stage Theater Performance Project: Assassins

This course provides singing technique and vocal coaching to students participating in the TAPS Spring 2024 main stage production of Assassins. During ensemble and solo sessions, students will learn about the physical process of healthy singing and work on the musical phrasing of the songs they perform in the musical. Both will be applied to the art of acting their songs and creating their characters.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1-3 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 6 units total)

TAPS 122P: Undergrad Performance Project

The Undergraduate Performance Project provides students the opportunity to study and perform in major dramatic works. Students learn to form an artistic ensemble, develop dramaturgical materials, learn professional arts protocols and practice, devise within the ensemble, and develop live performance ability. Audition required. Preference to majors/minors. Evening rehearsals are required. Full schedule will be released during casting. Maybe repeated for credit. 3 maximum completions allowed. If repeated, 15 total units allowed.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1-9 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE | Repeatable 3 times (up to 15 units total)

TAPS 127: Movement for the Actor

This course is an exploration of movement techniques for the actor, designed to provide a foundation for performance practice. Students will develop a more grounded sense of ease and breath onstage, learn fundamentals of physical partnership, and acquire an expanded physical vocabulary. Areas of study include Laban movement analysis, observation and embodiment, basic contact improvisation, and physical characterization. Students will also engage a personalized warmup process for rehearsal and performance. All coursework will be entirely experiential, practical, and participatory. No previous experience necessary. Some outside rehearsal/investigation time required.
Terms: Aut, Spr | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-CE
Instructors: Chapman, M. (PI)

TAPS 127M: Introduction to Mask

This course is an exploration of the use of masks for the theatre - as a performance tool, a method of character creation, and a means of training for actors. Through the use of a wide range of mask types and techniques, we will identify and practice a variety of methods for performance and character creation. Areas of study include neutral mask, body mask, found-object mask, and character masks. Students will develop an understanding of breath, play, size and scale, stillness, ensemble, and character point of view. Mask study enables actors to become more physically clear, expressive, and present onstage in any form: it requires a heightened degree of awareness, observation, and embodiment - necessary attributes for any performer. Performance experience or movement training are not required, though they are recommended. All coursework will be practical and participatory. Some weekly outside rehearsal time required.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3
Instructors: Chapman, M. (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)
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