Theater+Arts

What is "theater"?

How do we create theater?

What defines "good" theater?

Grades in this course will be based upon effort and participation, not so-called "ability".

Yes, there are a lot of quotation marks here. You'll see--theater is pretty hard to pin down! And oh so much fun because of it.

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Our first project: decide what is "theater".

When you think of theater what words come to mind? What kind of objects do you think of?

Here are some youtube clips that got me thinking. What do you think? How do these clips compare with the words and things that you had listed just a moment ago? How are these videos the same or different than your definition of theater? Would you go see this if it was at your local theater? What if Drake was in it?

Stomp "Newspapers" media type="youtube" key="7NhFmARAgu0" width="425" height="350"

Remi Gaillard "Pac Man"

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Bobby McFerrin at the World Science Festival in 2009 media type="youtube" key="ne6tB2KiZuk" width="425" height="350"

media type="custom" key="10011201" James May and his Lego House media type="youtube" key="e1PxRt_MsgI" width="425" height="350"

Kabuki media type="youtube" key="SJiTy9L3m74" width="425" height="350"

Dancing Warrior media type="youtube" key="oBc5vquG33U" width="425" height="350"

Martin Solveig & Dragonette "Hello" media type="youtube" key="kK42LZqO0wA" width="425" height="350"