Megan holds degrees from Wellesley College (BA, English Literature and Theatre Studies, summa cum laude); the University of New Orleans (MA, Arts Administration, magna cum laude), and a certificate
in dramaturgy from Harvard University's American Repertory Theater, where she served as a Teaching Fellow and Teaching Assistant for undergraduate classes at Harvard University.
Despite acquired content from earning three graduate degrees — one
in dramaturgy, one in creative nonfiction, and one in arts and education — teaching in community college becomes an art of practice and craft separate from content.
Weller has a Master of Fine Arts
in dramaturgy and theater criticism from CUNY / Brooklyn College.
Not exact matches
Performance studies was developing, at that time, into a discipline of inquiry within communication studies that acknowledged many ancestors
in its family tree including rhetorical theory,
dramaturgy, and literary criticism.
It has been replaced by a variety of frameworks, among them a «vital movement
in the social sciences which construes and explicates human reality
in terms of the theatre and
dramaturgy.»
It's almost as if director Lu Yue, who apparently spent several long periods
in France between 1987 and 1992, used tenets of Western
dramaturgy to delve into aspects of the personalities of his characters that couldn't otherwise be singled out and studied.
The persistence of grief and the hope of redemption are themes as timeless as
dramaturgy itself, but rarely do they summon forth the kind of extraordinary swirl of love, anger, tenderness and brittle humor that is «Manchester by the Sea,» Kenneth Lonergan's beautifully textured, richly enveloping drama about how a death
in the family forces a small - town New Englander to confront a past tragedy anew.
'' [T] he two characters are so evenly matched by the
dramaturgy that they become Strindbergian antagonists
in a life - and - death struggle — equally odious
in their authoritarian reliance on institutions to define their own identities and equally crippled by what might be described as their political impotence...»
Awkward
dramaturgy like this is often a hidden (dare I say, phantom) cause of audience dissatisfaction with stories and motion pictures, particularly
in narrative modes like fantasy and adventure, where the archetypal structures are so well - worn and unconsciously familiar.
Dorothy Woodend: There is a good film buried
in the midst of director Dees Rees's Mudbound, but it is covered over with turgid
dramaturgy, overlapping narratives, and a determination to seemingly include every possible horror and affliction that might attend rural life
in 1940s Mississippi.
The rest of the movie alternates present - tense scenes of Arthur struggling to keep Takumi alive — gradually regaining his own will to live
in the process, as the rules of
dramaturgy demand — with flashbacks to Arthur's troubled marriage to Joan (Naomi Watts), revealing the tragic series of events that made him decide to end it all.
Britt - Elmore, who had a background
in theater — particularly
dramaturgy, the study of theater and its history — was a great fit for the job, even though she had no formal education experience.
The final version appeared
in 1994, and ever since it has garnered solid esteem, even though its premises run against the child - centered
dramaturgy described above.
In lieu of
dramaturgy, Infinite showcases its characters and themes through shorthand devices (signage, memorial engravings, diaries, confessional audio logs, etc.).
Entr» acte looks at four artists who adopt and often invert elements of theater and
dramaturgy in their work.
In their videos and installation work, the artists, who have been collaborating since the 1980s, employ a kind of experimental
dramaturgy: stilted and slowed down acting, a recurring cast of amateur actors, manikins, synthetic voices, and more.
In her sixth series, October Waves, she deals with the pure essence of each wave; the
dramaturgy of the wave; its strength and strum and drang.
Combining historical research with strategies of reenactment,
dramaturgy, and performance, this newly commissioned installation continues Bowen's interest
in activating overlooked and forgotten histories of -LSB-...]
Translating these elements into a vision —
dramaturgy — with multiple actors, an exhibition is envisioned as a choreography of suggestions
in space, with venues chosen for their aesthetic presence.
These artists, dialoguing with the curators, have designed a
dramaturgy leading visitors through the groves, the curious open - air salons of greenery
in the gardens of Versailles.
Immersive works can only be experienced
in their own respective temporality — they need a phase of departure, of immersion and emergence for which the exhibition will develop a specific
dramaturgy.
Changes
in beam intensity, colour, pattern and direction provide the
dramaturgy and narrative progression of the play.
Yuval Sharon — one of the most innovative directors of stage music, movement, and
dramaturgy in Los Angeles — was tasked by LACMA to design the exhibition CHAGALL — FANTASIES FOR THE STAGE.