THMD 173 Movement for Musical Theater

College of Performing Arts Ira Brind School of Theater Arts

0.5 credits 22.5 hours
100 level undergraduate course

A course designed to build the singing actor’s physical awareness and ability to more fully embody the process of acting. Students will learn about their own physicality and capacity for integration and will begin to understand and delineate the functional, expressive and communicative components of movement. The theories, principles and terminology of Yoga, Modern Dance improvisation, Laban Movement Analysis, Anatomy and Bartenieff Fundamentals will provide the framework for investigation and discovery.

This course may be completed 2 times for credit