Theatre and Dance - Macalester College

Theatre and Dance from Macalester College is a Campus Bachelor Theatre degree that prepares you for a Art and Design career. In the Theatre and Dance Department, our course work and our performances are laboratories for the theatre arts . We actively inquire about the role of the artist in contemporary society, and, indeed, in the ?global scene.? As a community of students, faculty, and artistic staff, we seek ways to participate in the life of Macalester College and the Twin Cities as fully-fledged ?citizen artists.? Students involved in the study and production of performance are engaged in an interdisciplinary and multi-cultural learning experience. To ?get inside? the work of artists as diverse in time, place and spirit as Shakespeare, Brecht, Martha Graham, Zeami, Maria Irene Fornes, Sophocles, Bill T. Jones, Caryl Churchill, and others, means researching the sources of their vision, understanding their socio-historical position, and experimenting with the techniques of their written and embodied practices in their legacy. As students of performance,learning how to use your intuitive and imaginative abilities is as important as cultivating your analytical and research skills, and here we emphasize it all. Practical-based research requires vision, knowledge, and discipline. To that end the theatre and dance department curricula have been developed to encourage students' analytical, critical, and interpretive thinking as well as the imaginative, emotional, and technical training necessary for successful, effective performance. This is not a conservatory program; however, the department provides a solid foundation in theatre and dance, theory and practice, for students who wish to pursue advanced training in graduate programs or professional schools. Indeed, we have many recent graduates in prestigious programs, and many others thriving as actors, directors, choreographers, designers, stage managers, and more (see the Department's website for details). Participation in theatre and dance productions at Macalester is available to all students at the college, regardless of major or minor affiliation with the department. Open auditions are conducted for productions each semester and technical positions are filled from a combination of experienced and new students who are willing to learn the skills necessary to accomplish the tasks. For theatre productions, any non-major student working on a production may receive theatre practicum credit if s/he fulfills the basic requirements (see course listings). Because of the collaborative and experiential nature of these productions, all majors and minors in the theatre program are required to work on, or participate in, one mainstage production per semester while in residence. View more details on Macalester College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Theatre courses.