Course: Devised Theater
How is performance-making a mode of embodied research? This is a studio-based class with a theoretical component, exploring performance-making as a methodology of humanistic research, and humanistic research as a catalyst for making socially-engaged performance. In this class, students will learn the histories, theories, and practices of devised theater making, or the process of collaboratively creating original, physical theater from scratch. An emphasis will be placed on ensemble work, collaboration, and other non-hierarchal models at the core of devised theater praxis.
Course flyer, Performance and/as Research: Devised Theater Workshop, Haverford College, Spring 2017 (above); poster, Capsule, created by students in collaboration with Tuttle artist-in-residence Beth Nixon, Haverford College, Spring 2017 (right); final performance by students in Devised Theater, inspired by Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Hampshire College, 2011(below).
