“Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, but instead of dying, he sings.” This course offers an introduction to arguably the most expressive art form in music.

Learn how American folk musicians have historically deployed music in the service of exposing and examining society’s pressing issues, including identity politics, media roles, and more.

Explore dance traditions among various afro latinx cultures, history, politics, role of performance in imagining, constructing and projecting identities.

For beginning actors and non-actors. Some on-camera technique as a means to cover the basic skills an actor needs to create compelling characters. No previous experience required.

This class uses the occasion of the pandemic to re-visit the great plagues of the past by sampling the literature they inspired. From Oedipus to the first AIDS plays of the 1980s.

Topics include pilates, yoga, and mindful movement study. Sections in both A term, B term, and full term.

Learn one or more Street Style dances such as Breaking, Popping, Strutting, Tutting Locking, or Club styles like Hip Hop party moves, House, Vogue, and waacking.

Be introduced to the aesthetics and creative process in dance and choreography. Learn how dance is practiced in social arenas pop culture, and concert settings.

The Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is widely seen as the greatest artist of the 20th century. Learn about the prolific career of what is really one of the great innovators of modern art.

Learn the theory and practice of curating contemporary art. Focus on lectures, conversations with curators, curatorial methodology, history of curating, skills of realizing an exhibition.