DVPP 624 Seminar: History, Theory, and Practice Of Ensemble

1.5 credits 22.5 hours
600 level graduate course

This course traces the origins of performance from ritual to the Greeks and on to modern day ensembles. There is a focus in the seminar on examining the roots of theatrical collaboration and the companies and movements that have influenced Pig Iron and the American avant-garde. The seminar aims to help understand that which has come before in order for students to be launched into the future with the right grounding in performance history and theory.

Open only to Devised Performance majors.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
Pass/fail grading only.