DIGITAL INNOVATIONS IN PERFORMING ARTS (4 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: define Students are expected to be able to understand the knowledge and skills about digital theatre; Create Students are expected to be able to understand and creatively create elements of digital performance, e.g. spectacle (scenography, theatre building/place, and costuming); dramatize Students are expected to be able to creatively play role in acting as actor/agency, director/dramaturg (creative authority), writer and audience (authorship); Produce Students are expected to be able to creatively produce digital theatre performance.

Topics:

1. Introduction;
2. Scenography 1;
3. Scenography 2 +  Practice;
4. The Theatre Building/Place 1;
5. The Theater Building/Place 2 +  Practice;
6. Costuming 1;
7. Costuming 2 + Practice;
8. The Actor (Agency) 1;
9. The Actor (Agency) 2 + Practice;
10. The ‘Other’ Actor 1;
11. The ‘Other’ Actor 2 + Practice;
12. Authorship-Director/Dramaturg (Creative Authority) 1;
13. Authorship-Director/Dramaturg (Creative Authority) 2 + Practice;
14. Writer and Audience (Authorship) 1;
15. Writer and Audience (Authorship) 2 + Practice;
16. The Agency of the Digital Performer and the Body as Place 1;
17. The Agency of the Digital Performer and the Body as Place 2 + Practice;
18. Theorizing Place/Community: Issues of Access and Performativity 1;
19. Theorizing Place/Community: Issues of Access and Performativity 2 + Practice;
20. Digital Theatre in Action: The Builder’s Association 1;
21. Digital Theatre in Action: The Builder’s Association 2 + Practice;
22. Conclusions;
23. Overall Practice 1;
24. Overall Practice 2;
25. Performance/Display 1;
26. Performance/Display 2.