Mission Statement
In the Grinnell College Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, students develop as artist-scholars who are learning and practicing an integrated and holistic approach to making performance. We value a balance of knowing and doing, collaboration, active pedagogy, invention, multiplicity and diversity, experimentation, humane practices, and welcoming EVERY BODY. Productions and performances, as well as scholarship about them, are placed at the center of what we do as a department. Learning in the classroom leads to and informs performances and is informed by what is learned on stage and in the process of production, in a cycle of reciprocal advancement.
Learning Outcomes
Theatre and dance majors will:
- Engage with dramatic, choreographic, and cultural performance texts within social, political, and historical contexts and analyze these texts from a range of theoretical and critical perspectives
- Train in techniques of performance making (acting, dancing, design, playwriting, adaptation, choreography, directing, dramaturgy, etc.)
- Develop creative abilities to author one’s own artistic and critical work and be able to communicate clearly and persuasively in various modes
- Implement collaboration between student scholar-artists on projects within coursework and performances
- Develop portfolio showcasing student research
Outcomes approved 11/06/17; Webpage updated November 2024