TFT 1500 — Acting I
This introductory-level course explores foundational forms and principles of improvisation and acting techniques. Through a continuum of hands-on, creative exercises that introduce and explore theatrical games, improvisation, monologues, scene work, and devising activities, students will develop their skills as performing artists as well as their abilities in theatrical play and imagination, more broadly. Individual and group activities will introduce and investigate physicality and vocality for performance and abilities of focus, observation, and presence as well as progress participants¿ ability to take creative risks. Explorations will also introduce the fundamental principles of acting techniques developed by (but not limited to) one or more of the following acting schools: Stanislavski, Meisner, Spolin, Strasberg, Chekhov, and Balk. Creative exercises will also introduce acting methodologies of physical theater practices.