# TDM & Learning Lab (2022-2023)

### General tools of interest for Jessi:

* Film
* Projection
* Zines
* Web-design
* Digital portfolio/archiving
* Interviews

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### Courses of interest:

## TDM97: [Foundational Concepts in Theater, Dance, & Media](https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/links/drama-theater-theory)

Instructor: Debra Levine
FALL
*Required of all and limited to TDM concentrators

*Introduces students to fundamental issues in and methods of theatre and dance studies. Explore potential of expressive forms, and ask, what can be experienced and known through performances and performing? Aims to give students a solid foundation to see, experience and think as performers, as artists, and as scholars of expressive behavior.*

**Potential projects/tools for LL incorporate:**

* Workshops on fundamental issues in and methods of media studies
* Filmed final performances/presentations for digital archive

## TDM98: [Junior Tutorial](https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/links/junior-tutorial-1)

Instructors: Debra Levine (fall) and James Stanley (spring)
FALL AND SPRING
*Required of all and limited to TDM concentrators

*Identify a number of contemporary and historical performances and performance archives and critically consider how they might influence students' evolving identity as artists working in live media, dance, and performance. First seven weeks of the semester dedciated to reading and exploring a number of topics and ideas regarding the development of a sustainable arts practice, all the while, developing a specific set of questions pertinent to each student’s interests in the concentration. At the end of the seven weeks, students will present (both in person and online) on a company or artist whose work you have been researching in depth.*

**Potential projects/tools for LL incorporate:**

* Final projects in the form of video essay
* Final projects in the form of zines

## TDM 169B: [Theater 000](https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/links/theater-000)

Instructor: Lex Brown
SPRING

*This course will help students unthink what they know about theatrical performance and strip it down to its most mobile and visceral parts. Students will devise theater from its most elemental parts – vocalization, light, and movement. Beginning with a piece made completely in darkness, students will progressively build toward a piece with light, sound, movement, music, set, etc. Goal is to find the impact of the subtle gesture; develop specificity in word choice, movement, and timing; develop the storytelling voice; and build basic skills in performance documentation.*

**Potential project/tools for LL to incorporate:**

* Incorporating film & projection into student's toolbelts
* workshop on projection in performance
* support individual students in incorporating a media component into their final piece

## TDM134R: [[CoLLab: Theater, Dance & Performance in Liquid Times]](https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/links/collaborative-art-making)

Instructor: Debra Levine
FALL

*This research-based class will develop a partial snapshot of this historical moment in contemporary theater and performance. Together we will sift through the overwhelming numbers of performance works, talks, TikTok manifestos, chats, debates, panels and archival materials accessed on the internet after CoVID restrictions shut down face-to-face assembly in theatrical venues and we will identify what we think is both aesthetically compelling and “engaged.” The final results of our research will be recorded in a collectively authored digital book, a platform that allows for different formats of critical analysis to be staged alongside the rich media that served as our research archive. The book will document our collective reflection on the significance of each of the projects we have identified and the hope is that the act of bringing each individual project together might reveal some commonalities, some new possibilities of aesthetic and political solidarity.*

**Potential project/tools for LL to incorporate:**

* Digital book / archive / portfolio design

## TDM90DR: [Harvard Dance Project](https://tdm.fas.harvard.edu/links/harvard-dance-project)

Instructor: LROD
SPRING

*The Harvard Dance Project is a production-based course focusing on professional movement exploration, choreography, and process. For the Spring 2022 season, Aysha Upchurch, Jeffrey Page, and LROD will be in choreographic residence with the enrolled company at the Harvard Dance Center. The Harvard Dance Project offers the enrolled company an in-depth experience working closely with choreographers’ diverse methods and practices in the dance production universe while simultaneously examining the intersections of dance and performance studies, choreographic processes, and intermedia. The Harvard Dance Project culminates in an end-of term performance and production experience at Farkas Hall. In addition, each enrolled company member will simultaneously cultivate a short dance studies article relevant to their research over the course of the semester. LROD will facilitate the course using co-creative, adaptive, and liberatory methods with a decolonial approach.*

**Potential project/tools for LL to incorporate:**

* Digital installation
* Media production for performance
* Individual dance-on-camera projects for students
* Video essays in lieu of final paper