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Stanford Root

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TAPS 101P

Theater and Performance Making (TAPS 371P)

UNITS:4
GRADING:Letter or Credit/No Credit
LEVEL:Undergrad
GER:WAY-CE

A creative workshop offering a range of generative exercises and techniques in order to devise, compose and perform original works. Students will explore a variety of texts (plays, poems, short stories, paintings) and work with the body, object and site. Students will be encouraged to think critically about various compositional themes and ideas including: the relationship between form and content, aesthetics, space, proximity, and audience. Students will work independently and collaboratively creating original performances.

Syllabus for selected term:
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Sections

1 Term
Practicum 1Open
ID: 7237
0 / 20 enrolled
DAYS:Tuesday, Thursday
TIME:1:30 PM – 3:20 PM
LOCATION:Roble Gymnasium 117
INSTRUCTOR:
Rau, Michael
4units

TAPS 101P: Theater and Performance Making (TAPS 371P)

4 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit · GER: WAY-CE

A creative workshop offering a range of generative exercises and techniques in order to devise, compose and perform original works. Students will explore a variety of texts (plays, poems, short stories, paintings) and work with the body, object and site. Students will be encouraged to think critically about various compositional themes and ideas including: the relationship between form and content, aesthetics, space, proximity, and audience. Students will work independently and collaboratively creating original performances.

Offered in Autumn 2026 at Stanford University.

Autumn 2026 sections

  • Practicum — Tuesday Thursday 1:30 PM – 3:20 PM — Roble Gymnasium 117 — Rau, Michael (Undergrad)

More TAPS courses

  • TAPS 41: Transforming Text into Light
  • TAPS 43: Light Installation Art: Making Sculpture with Light
  • TAPS 44: Wigs & Hair
  • TAPS 100: Introduction to Theater Practice (TAPS 211)
  • TAPS 100C: History of World Cinema III: Queer Cinemas Around the World (ARTHIST 164, ARTHIST 364, CSRE 102C, CSRE 302C, FEMGEN 100C, FEMGEN 300C, FILMEDIA 100C, FILMEDIA 300C, GLOBAL 193, GLOBAL 390, TAPS 300C)
  • TAPS 101F: Close Cinematic Analysis: Poetic Cinema (ARTHIST 199, ASNAMST 108, FEMGEN 104, FILMEDIA 101, FILMEDIA 301)
  • TAPS 103: Beginning Improvising
  • TAPS 104: Intermediate Improvisation
  • TAPS 105: Advanced Improvisation
  • TAPS 120A: Acting I: Fundamentals of Acting
  • TAPS 120B: Acting II: Advanced Acting
  • TAPS 120M: Audition and Monologue

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