ALICE THROUGH THE WORMHOLE

Book, music and lyrics by Brenda Varda
Directed by Brian Brophy
Ramo Auditorium

Friday, February 20 - 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 21 - 8:00 pm
Sunday, February 22 - 2:30 pm
Friday, February 27 - 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 28 - 8:00 pm
Sunday, March 1 - 2:30 pm

$5 Caltech students
$9 Non-Caltech students, Caltech/JPL staff/faculty, seniors
$18 General Admission

ALICE PROGRAM PPT

ALICE PROGRAM PDF

 

NEW CLASS!!!

Global Narratives
Srinivas Reddy IITGn
Brian Brophy Caltech
Tuesday 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM PST / Wednesdays 8:30AM -10:00 AM IST
First Class: January 6/7, 2015
Final Class: March 10/11, 2015
Location: 275 South Hill--Tacit House

Overview:
This class addresses the growing need for international exchanges around culture and the aesthetic dimensions of intercultural engagement. With a focus on storytelling and performance techniques, writing and examination/analysis of text-based sources, including films and text/global media-based literature, within a global framework, the class complements and expands current Science/Humanities/Social Science communication modules and classes.

This class calls upon the student to investigate his/her own viewpoints, assumptions, convictions in regard to themselves and the world around them and giving voice to them in the safeguard of the classroom through guided instruction from the professors. From initial or exploratory individual narratives, the
class focuses on formal analysis of various global texts from the Greeks, to India, Shakespeare, including Eastern and African traditions of performance and storytelling.

This class is designed to contextualize the personal narratives of students in a pro-active search for an authentic voice mediated by the ancient ground of global narratives.

Syllabus:
Students will write several stories and perform them with their classmates over the ten-week class. At the end of term (March 10/11) students will select the most relevant/engaging narrative and present them back for a final fully produced Ted talk-performance.

January 6/7 Introductory class with IITGn and Caltech

1. Personal credo
Begin reading Campbell’s
Hero With A Thousand
Faces pp 1-42 http://
www.yourskypeschool.com/
book_yss_eng/
Campbell_Joseph-
The_Hero_With_A_Thousand_F
aces.pdf

January 13/14
Performance Workshop and discussion of the Monomyth from Campbell and Hero’s Journey
Personal Credo Due
2. Hero Story
Read Oedipus Rex
www.poetryintranslation.com/
PITBR/Greek/Oedipus.htm
Watch excerpts from various
film versions of Oedipus

January 20/21
Greeks
Hero Story Due
Discuss Oedipus
Read excerpts from Hamlet and watch the film Haider.

January 27/28
Myths/Epics of India - Puranas, Ramayana
3. Personal Story
Read excerpts from Ramayana
Watch Star Wars

February 3/4
Multiple Ramayanas - Balinese Shadow Puppets/Telugu Harikatha
Personal Story Due
Watch Sita Sings the Blues

February 10/11
Africa - Colonialism and Tradition. Storytelling in Nigeria, and contemporary practice in Mozambique
4. Research Story
Read Things Fall Apart

February 17/18
Attend Alice Through the Wormhole Dress
Rehearsal Skype--class
Research Story Due
Read excerpts from Alice in Wonderland and Lookinglass by Lewis Carroll.

February 24/25
Japan, China and Vietnam: Ghosts, heroes and the eternal hope of justice
5. Global Story
Read excerpts from Tso Chuan, annals of Confucius, Xieu, Noh-Kabuki and Butoh texts

March 3/4
Final review of material and Final Exams
Rehearse final presentations
[No Class - Upload Video Projects]

March 10/11
Final presentations of stories…
5. Review/Best Project Awards

Stories include:
1) Credo: What do you believe? (2 double-spaced pages)
2) A hero story based on an adaptation of Joseph Campbell’s monomyth archetype.
3) A personal story that builds on self-introspection and development of your character.
4) A story about your current academic passions/scientific research
5) A story in response to global literature and how it figures into the metaphorical nature of being.

PRIMARY TEXTS:
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

SECONDARY TEXTS:
Campbell, Joseph. The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Harper Collins (1993)
Richman, Paula, ed. Many Rāmāyaṇas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia. Oxford
University Press (1997).
Chatman, Seymour Benjamin. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Cornell
University Press (1978).

FILMS:
Haider
Oedipus
Star Wars
Sita Sings the Blues http://sitasingstheblues.com/watch.html

 

 

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