Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Drama in Vegas
Carnegie Mellon University: "The fourth-year architecture theater studio is an interdisciplinary class of eight architecture students and six drama students. Dick Block, associate head of the School of Drama, co-teaches the course with Kevin Wagstaff, an architect and partner at Perfido Weiskopf Wagstaff + Goettel in downtown Pittsburgh. Both instructors were looking for a trip that would be of equal interest to both architecture and drama students."
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I really like the concept for this class and hope that I will be able to take it sometime. This class solves two problems. First of all, it educates interested architects in the specific needs for performing spaces. How many times have you walked into a beautiful theater space only to learn that none of the technical aspects function as they should because of some ridiculous architectural blunder. Also, it will allow theater artists, particularly scene designers, but everyone else as well, an opportunity to work with creating the space in which the art takes place. I would imagine that if a scene designer was given the opportunity to design the theater that their show took place in, it would be a great opportunity.
I would love to take this class. This is the kind of hands on experience that I think is most beneficial to students, learning about set designs and certain aspects that Cirque has employed through sitting in a classroom is interesting but I would much rather be physically seeing the inside workings of such an advanced production. I'm going to Vegas this summer and seeing 'Ka' but I'd love to learn about the behind the scenes aspect of it just because these shows run at such high stakes, employ such modern technology and are the epitome of the type of theater I would like to be doing.
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