Performance Studies: An Introduction explores the wide world of performance--from theatre, dance, and music to ritual, play, political campaigns, social media, and the performances of everyday life. Performance studies also ranges across cultures--Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, the Americas. And it spans historical periods from the art of the [...]
This course is meant for anyone who is reading Romeo & Juliet and would like to hear the perspectives of professional actors who have performed in the play. This course primarily consists of interviews with 14 professional actors who have performed in at least one production of Romeo [...]
Learn about Meyerhold’s form of physical theatre, biomechanics, and understand and perform ‘The Slap’. This course introduces you to world-renowned Russian director Meyerhold’s technique of biomechanics. It invites you to study and experience first-hand his revolutionary biomechanical étude, ‘The [...]
Explore how to design and create audio descriptions and audio introductions that fully represent a film, play, or TV programme. Design inclusive audio descriptions for film, theatre, and TV
Audio description (AD) is a key means by which the full diversity of a programme, film, or live performance can be [...]
Ce cours porte sur l’histoire de la littérature et des idées du 18e siècle français. Il vise à présenter l’ensemble du siècle, les œuvres et les auteurs aussi bien que les combats d’idées qui traversent les Lumières. L’accent sera mis sur les « grands auteurs » (Montesquieu, Prévost, Marivaux, [...]
Tout ce qu’on doit savoir sur le théâtre français du 17e siècle pour pleinement apprécier les chefs-d’œuvre de Molière, de Corneille et de Racine. Le théâtre classique du 17e siècle passe pour le sommet de l’art du théâtre en France. Ses trois représentants les plus connus, Corneille et Racine [...]
Explore Shakespeare's plays of young love, Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, to learn what makes them so compelling and magical. This literature and theater course will delve into two wonderful plays of young love, Romeo & Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and try to bring [...]