Principal Investigator
Prof. Jay Scheib, Music and Theater Arts
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2016
Department/Lab/Center:
Music and Theater Arts
The integration of media technologies in live performance has dominated innovation in contemporary performance practices—in theater, opera, visual arts and dance. In the telling of stories and in the creation of images that move, experiments with light, with sound, with projection and in particular, the introduction of live cameras have radically altered how we experience live performance. In our courses, students examine the historical precedents for the many technological intersections and experiment, in the studio, by developing their own multidisciplinary, technologically augmented stagings of classical plays, operas, and other original live performance events.