Course Details
Country:
Germany
Institution:
Freie Universität Berlin (FUBiS) Summer School
Course Title:
Creating a Solo Performance: Berlin Cabaret/Kabarett
Course Number:
2.01
Course Description:
This course is an acting course that introduces the student to the research, writing and
performance techniques of cabaret performers.
Students will be seeking to assay that tale by examining Cabaret in Europe and specifically in Berlin from 1901-1944 while creating their own solo performance based on research of sources as such diaries, letters, memoirs, and autobiographies that relate Berlin Kabarett. Subjects can be figures such as Gisela May, Trude Hestberg, Anita Berber, Claire Waldoff, Erwin Piscator, Hugo Ball, Blandine Ebinger, Kurt Weill and are of particular interest to the student. While studying and analyzing the techniques of a wide variety of cabaret performers through its inception, students will explore aspects of writing monologues and implementing those
techniques with the ultimate goal of creating and performing their own material -sense of truth- with the courage necessary to stand-alone on stage.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
INTS 399
Attachment Files:
UGURLU_Berlin_Cabaret_A-Track_en_term_II_2020.pdf
