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Enroll in DRAMA
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Tuesday & Thursday 3:15-6:05 plus Thursday noon lectures
PRE-ENROLLMENT APPLICATION IS REQUIRED
***For more info and online application: www.stanford.edu/dept/ida***
Deadline is Nov. 27, 2006
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Linda Tillery
Vocalist/Percussionist
A Long Journey Home: Concertizing the Golden Triangle
This Workshop invites students to research and explore the emerging social and cultural characteristics of slave populations along the route know as the Golden Triangle –– the route of forced migration to the Americas that began on the docks of Bristol, England (the epicenter of the British slave trade), moved to the Slave Coast of Africa (Ghana, Benin and Nigeria), then on to the Americas and the Caribbean. We will collaborate on a 45 to 60 minute concert presentation using music, dance, and spoken word to expose what sets the North American, Caribbean, and South American experiences apart culturally and explore as well those remnants of shared origin that hold them together. |
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| Jon Jang
Pianist/Composer
Changing Tradition Music Workshop
This course will examine Jon Jang’s personal discovery of American or Chinese traditional songs that have changed from the Star Spangled Banner to the Flower Drum Song. Over the years, Mr. Jang has grown weary of a tired and narrow-minded debate about “authenticity” in Asian culture. There is a basic assumption that Chinese culture is brought over to United States concealed in a box to never change. As an artist, the question is not what should happen, but what could happen. The goal is for students to study some of these music tradition(s) and create their personal expression or perspective.
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This course is recommended for both students who are interested in music and other performance disciplines, Asian American Studies, African American Studies and American Studies. Students will share reading and listening assignments with some variation. Students, who can make music, create and perform in another discipline or in media can work on an “art” project. “Non arts” students will collaborate with Mr. Jang to discuss project ideas such as writing a paper, facilitating a panel discussion or give a lecture.
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Willie Cole
Visual Artist
Who Dat?!
Transformalist artist Willie Cole comes to Stanford to unravel our understanding of diversity through the manipulation of language and form. This class meets twice a week. Once a week participants will explore this two-sided coin of diversity and racism through the assignment of new racial social and gender categories to the characters in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Research into difference through observation and reading, and improvisation will be used to fuel and inform this exercise which will culminate in a rewriting of Shaw’s original script and a theatrical presentation of selected scenes featuring these remixed characters.. |
All final scene selections will be video taped.
On the second day of each week the class will create literal translations of the expression other peoples skin. In an art studio environment students will collectively make several life size armatures of the human body. And then, using collage and appliqué techniques (with found and culturally significant text and objects) create a series of shell like translucent skins that reflect mental, physical, spiritual, and cultural differences. This approach could begin as a digital project then evolve to 3D. The finish product here should emphasis difference and/or sameness by revealing the inner working of each sub group as visual media. Each finished piece should literally wear its culture on its skin.
Both students with or without theatre experience and art and non art majors are encouraged to participate. Students interested in writing, acting, sociology, art, and language are welcome. Mr. Cole’s art explores oneness or sameness through obsessive use of single objects. He will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Cantor Art Center in the fall of 2007.
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| Aleta Hayes
Performer/Dancer/Choreographer
The Stanford Remix Performance Project
So... you think you know Stanford? Think Again. Performer/choreographer Aleta Hayes will lead students in a mash-up/hybrid/remix of identity, race and culture that will challenge their perception of the Stanford community. Combining dance with singing and acting, this IDA workshop will engage students and local teachers in a multi-generational performative exploration on race and culture. In dialogue with the School of Education project, Teachers for a New Era, this workshop asks students and teachers to interview and perform eachother to embody each’s uniqueness and see the pleasure in our differences. The interactions between the students and the teachers will also explore performance as pedagogical tool.
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This course is recommended for both students who are interested in theater and other performance disciplines (dance, spoken word) as well as ethnic studies and cultural relations, CSRE, African & African American Studies and American Studies and international relations.
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For More Information Contact: ghclarke@stanford.edu
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