07/17/09
New Honors Seminar - TH 314/ 499
Posted by Nigel on July 17, 2009 in Honors Experiences, Honors Seminars
Dr. Bay-Cheng will be offering TH 314 “Introduction to Dramatury” as an Honors Seminar this Fall.
The main course will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1 to 2:20 pm in Alumni 284. The Honors Seminar attached to the class will meet just before the class on Wednesdays from 12 to 1 pm in Alumni 284.
The course description is as follows:
What is Dramaturgy? Unlike other kinds of textual study that focus primarily on the words themselves, Dramaturgy is always focused on the text as it connects and combines words, sounds, movement, and bodies into an experience. Dramaturgy is fundamentally about understanding the networks and relationships that different plays suggest and subsequently realize in performance. For this reason, dramaturges have worked in all kinds of performance contexts, including dance companies, new media artists, visual artists, as well as with theatre companies all over the world.
In this course we will begin with the fundamental principles of dramaturgy including dramatic literature analysis and its application to all aspects of theatre and performance production. From this foundation, we then consider the ways in which new forms of dramaturgy affect new forms of production, including not only theatre, but also dance and multiple forms of performance art (with a particular emphasis on body art). Because of the emphasis on the networking aspects of dramaturgy, much of the course will use social media tools to communicate and collaborate, although familiarity with these is not a pre-requisite for the course. We will also make use of unqiue video resources, not available elsewhere in the US.
Please email Nigel at nmarrine@buffalo.edu if you are interested in adding this course to your Fall 2009 schedule.
Remember that you can take up to 3 Honors Seminars to count towards your Honors Experiences.
