Theatre 4029: Special Topics in Stage Movement

The goal is to inspire and instill in the emerging artist the necessity of community engagement as a way to contribute to the overall creation of meaningful and relevant physical theatre work.

The community partner is the LSU Language Preschool located next to the Music and Dramatic Arts Building in the Dean French House. The goal is to provide a meaningful and useful service through our narrative, improvisational, and physical gifts while gaining valuable insight into human communication, cues, and body language. Exploring the limitations of our own communication through movement, voice, and body language will provide the basis for character and identity formation when we construct a theatrical narrative. Students will work directly alongside the LSU graduate and undergraduate students assigned to working with special needs children at the LSU Language Preschool for at least one half hour each week starting week 3 of the semester. They will help with behavioral and communication skills necessary for effective social functioning. They will take what they learn working with the Preschool and integrate it into character development, movement options and story ideas for the class goal. At the end of the semester, the children and the LSU Language Preschool students will be invited to view the final performance presentation in the classroom.