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Dostoevsky's "Bobok": A Translation To The Language Of The Stage, Daniel Julian Krakovski

Senior Projects Spring 2016

As a joint major in Russian & Eurasian Studies and Theater & Performance, my senior project is a translation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s short story entitled “Бобок: записки одного человека” [Bobok: Notes of a Certain Individual] (1873) from Russian into English. This translation then served as the textual foundation for what eventually—after a six-month rehearsal process—became a solo performance featuring an actor named Fergus Baumann. I co-directed the performance in tandem with my collaborator Eileen Goodrich. Our production was featured in the Theater & Performance Senior Project Festival, which provided us with three performances in the Luma Theater of the Richard …

The River Of Blood: An Analysis Of The Process And Production Of Fury And The Senior Theater Festival Inferno, Aleah Willa Black

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Lust, Gluttony, Greed: A Collaborative Piece About Four Women In Hell, Leah Katherine Rabinowitz

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

The Marriage Between Fury And Fervor: An Analysis Of The Performance Fury, As Part Of The Senior Project Theater Festival, Inferno, Michael Anna Gray

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Lust Gluttony Greed; A Collaborative Piece Exploring Modern Systems Of Power And Dante's Inferno, Eleanor Parker Robb

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Inferno: Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Salome Gwendolyn Dewell-Amiranashvili

Senior Projects Spring 2016

A reflection on the process of a collaborative senior project in theater and performance and an exploration of self-validation and pain.

Adaptation As Transmutation: Shakespeare In Orson Welles "Voodoo" Macbeth And Kurosawa's Throne Of Blood, Ruby Elizabeth Smyth Meyers-Mcenroe

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

C Reverse For Care, José Luis Chardiet

Senior Projects Spring 2016

José Chardiet

April 2016

C Reverse for Care is organized in a five part care cycle: Wash, Rinse, Spin, Dry, and Wear. The piece is a study in reversibility. It is an effort to learn, to understand what it means to care, and an effort to try to achieve reciprocal balance in any relationship, whether it is with a family member, a partner, or a friend.

The staging is designed for circular movement, suggesting a cycle that is repeated after completion. The spacial structure of the piece is based on the shape of the white ginger lily, the national flower …

Pawns: Value Perception, Need Diversity, Soraya Jo-Anna Cain

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Limbo Limbo Limbo, Lauren Nicole D'Ottavio

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

The New Audience Theory, Isabel Shuttleworth Bump

Senior Projects Spring 2016

According to The New Audience Theory, audience members take information from the media and use their own identity and experiences to make sense of that information. Interpretations will always be slightly different from person to person; everyone has different experiences and cannot think in the same way as another. I know that truly understanding another person by seeing the world as they do is completely impossible. But, I want to try.

I have spoken to Annie for hours. The words you hear in this installation are such a small percentage of the conversations that I have had with her over …

Bobok: A Theater Piece Exploring Heresy, The Afterlife, And The Art Of Translating Text To The Stage, Eileen Marie Goodrich

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Entrapment: An Exploration Of Blackness In The Theater World, Imani Jones

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Fraud: Just Fraud, Reeves David Ion Morris-Stan

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.

Everyone’S Their Own Worst Critic Or How I Learned Not To Fear The End, Audrey Belle Rosenblith

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Jean Genet, author ofThe Balcony, and Dante Alighieri, author of Inferno, have more in common than you might think. For one thing, they were both obsessed with death.

The Vestibule (a devised theater piece) was made to examine this obsession with (and fear of) death further.

Art is a tool we can use to confront our fear of death. All people fear death.

A Contested Future: Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Native American Performers, And The Military's Struggle For Control Over Indian Affairs 1868-1898, Alexander Erez Echelman

Senior Projects Spring 2015

My project explores how and why William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody glorified the military's wars against Native Americans on the Great Plains through his career as a showman in the United States and in Europe. The military's and the Interior Department's competition for control over Indian Affairs allowed Buffalo Bill to support the army's image by adhering to popular white supremacist ideas in the nation. I look at how Buffalo Bill used his Native American performers to exemplify the military's peace keeping skills in the West while devaluing the Interior Department's authority in Indian Affairs.

Without Prospero: A Staged Reading And Continuation On Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', Samuel T. Robotham

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Without Prospero is a play I wrote over the course of my senior year. It culminated in a stylized staged reading in the Luma Theater at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts from March 27th to March 29th 2015. It featured Antonio Irizarry ’16, Max Green ’17, and Charlie Mai ’18. The play is a continuation on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, focusing on the character of Ariel just after the events of the play have concluded. Without Prospero explores power, loss, abandonment, and how we look at a servant/master relationship through the lens of traditional Shakespearean characters. The …

I'M Scared Of The Colors [Or At Least We Tried]: A Collaborative Theater Project, Marissa C. Shadburn

Senior Projects Spring 2015

Inspired by the history of the Berlin Wall, I’m Scared of the Colors [or At Least we Tried], is a collaborative theater project about the creative process, memory, history and love. My passions of working with people are always reflected in my art. I like to make pieces about communication and division, pieces about the relationships between people and how that is affected by modern societal constructions. In both my artistic work and my social work I hope to subvert normative expectations, while also challenging the boundaries of theater as an institution and as a genre. Through exploring and …

Like The Moon, Camille Weisgant

Senior Projects Spring 2015

An adaptation of the traditional Japanese Noh play "Ama," "Like the Moon" explores what it means to die in the 21st century, when death, just like life, is mediated by technology.

In The Mind Of The Manipulated Man: A Reflection On A King's A King: A Brecht Retelling Of Macbeth, Michael Lazarus

Senior Projects Spring 2015

This paper is a reflection on a senior project performance titled A King's a King: A Brecht Retelling of Macbeth, which I performed in.

I'M Not Finished — Done, Dimitri A. Cacouris

Senior Projects Spring 2014

This paper examines the creation and performance of the piece Done, by the author, and tries to take a critical and analytic perspective as well as a reflective one, of interest largely to the author, but also to anyone interested in a documentation of the creative process. It is accompanied by a video recording and photographs of the performance and several appendices which document the majority of the textual material which represents the genesis of the piece and from which the piece was eventually built.

(The paper, as it is, is best taken salted)

Sentient: An Investigation Of The Sensuous Self, Victoria Nicole Tricoche

Senior Projects Spring 2014

I choreograph with the goal of filling the space with palpably sensuous experiences. As living bodies (dancer or not), we construct our own reality based on experience. The medium for experiencing the outside world is the body, more specifically the sensing body. Through sense memory, we attach ourselves to the world around us, drawing conclusions and connections according to what we see, hear, smell, touch, and taste. Sense memory is a rich and compelling tool I’ve had dancers utilize in making movement that I eventually compile and organize. Although dance performance is a dominantly visual art form, I aim to …

Laughter At Auschwitz: George Tabori’S “Theater Der Peinlichkeit” And “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” In Post-War Germany, Leonie F. Bell

Senior Projects Spring 2012

For his premiere of The Cannibals at the Berliner Schiller Theater in December of 1969, George Tabori had an escape car waiting just in case the German audience reacted poorly to his play. Not only was he bringing the first Holocaust play set at a concentration camp to the German stage, but it was extremely comedic in nature. Tabori’s Holocaust play was funny. This had never been done before, especially not by a Hungarian Jew who had lost most of his family in the Holocaust. No one knew how the German audience, especially the non-Jewish audience, would react. Tabori wanted …

Wilting Flowers: An Exploration Of The Metatheatricality In Fernando Arabal's Prison Play And They Put Handcuffs On The Flowers, Rachel R. Marks

Senior Projects Spring 2011

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.