SLC Theatre Practicums
Practicums are showings of year-long theatre program classes presenting final projects, new work, and cumulative performances from our diverse theatre curriculum. Join us for a festival of student classwork starting April 26th!
Stage Combat
Faculty: Sterling Swann
Students learn the basics of armed and unarmed stage fighting, with an emphasis on safety. Actors are taught to create effective stage violence, from hair pulling and choking to sword fighting, with a minimum of risk. Basic techniques are incorporated into short scenes to give students experience performing fights in both classic and modern contexts.
Contemporary Practice
Faculty: Caden Manson
Contemporary Practice focuses on Contemporary Performance artists and thinkers and looks at how we situate our practice in the field. During the first semester, students investigate current and emerging practices in Performing Care, Contemporary Choreography, Speculative Theater, Immersive Theatre, Co-Presence, Performance Cabaret, Post-Digital Strategies, Socially Engaged Art, and Mixed Reality Performance. During the second semester, students create individual artist statements, bios, resumes, and websites; develop pitches for new work; and learn how to engage with funders, artistic directors, and presenters.
Costume Design I
Faculty: Liz Prince
Actors, directors, designers, and theatre-makers of all kinds are welcome to learn the basics of designing costumes, the language of clothes, script analysis, elements of design, color theory, fashion history, and figure drawing. While inspiring young designers, this course also covers various design-room techniques, including stitching by machine and by hand as well as working as a wardrobe technician.
Costume Design II
Faculty: Liz Prince
Actors, directors, designers, and theatre-makers of all kinds are welcome to learn the basics of designing costumes, the language of clothes, script analysis, elements of design, color theory, fashion history, and figure drawing. While inspiring young designers, this course also covers various design-room techniques, including stitching by machine and by hand as well as working as a wardrobe technician.
DownStage
Faculty: Graeme Gillis
DownStage is an intensive, hands-on conference in theatrical production. As part of this SLC Theatre component, students learn about all aspects of production and administration, including creating a board of directors, building a mission, budgeting, marketing, and artistic direction around an entire season of events and productions.
Intro to Media Design & Advanced Media Design
Faculty: Tei Blow
Explore the theory of sound, basic design principles, editing and playback software, content creation, and basic system design for linear and nonlinear performance. Learn the function and execution of video and sound in theatre, dance, and interdisciplinary forms.
Lighting Design I
Faculty: Greg McPhereson
Discover the basic elements of stage lighting, including tools and equipment, color theory, reading scripts for design elements, operation of lighting consoles and construction of lighting cues, and basic elements of lighting drawings and schedules. Learn through hands-on experience opportunities designing productions and assisting other designers through a creative process.
Puppetry
Faculty: Lake Simons
Explore a variety of puppetry techniques, including bunraku style, marionette, shadow puppetry, and toy theatre. Through hands-on learning, develop manipulation skills, gain an understanding of how to prepare the puppeteer’s body for performance, and create original puppetry pieces.
Tools of the Trade
Faculty: Brianna Weintraub and Robert Gould
Learn the nuts and bolts of light-board and sound-board operation, projection technology, and the use of basic stage carpentry. Before designing a show, understand how to read and draft light plots, assemble and troubleshoot equipment, and comprehend basic skills of an electrics or scenic crew.
Global Theatre
Faculty: Sifiso Mabena
A syncretic theatre journey is enhanced by the observance of fellow theatre-makers and oneself that is informed concretely by the application of text, research, movement, music, design, puppetry, multimedia, as well as social and political debate in class. In collaboration with LaMaMa International, exchange ideas with visiting and local artists from around the world.