The Department of Theater & Performance Studies (TAPS) integrates theory, criticism, and performance. Our interdisciplinary department, which houses the Division of Dance, welcomes students from across the University who want to be involved in intensive, innovative, intellectual work about live performance. We train students to participate in multiple modes--from traditional theater and dance to improvised and devised performances. Students in the department learn analytic skills through research-based scholarship that focuses on doing as a means of understanding. In collaboration with our academic mission the department produces numerous events through its creative program and season of live shows. We offer workshops and productions that include canonical plays, commissioned dance works, experimental projects, and lecture/demonstrations by visiting artists. The Department functions as the campus hub for engaged scholarship in and about live dance, theater, and performance.
Professor Branislav Jakovljevic is the current Chair of Stanford TAPS.
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INSTITUTE FOR DIVERSITY AND THE ARTSIDA is an interdisciplinary program in the humanities that involves students in the study of culture, identity and diversity through artistic expression. Our mission is to engage artists, students and the local community in a collaborative process to create visual and performing art.
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STANFORD ARTS INSTITUTEThe Stanford Arts Institute focuses on promoting cross-disciplinary approaches to the arts—in teaching, research, and art-making. Drawing on Stanford’s strengths in collaboration and innovation, the Arts Institute exists to integrate the values and skills found in the arts throughout a Stanford University education. The Stanford Arts Institute forges arts connections across the university, gives grants for faculty, staff, and students; presents arts events, incubates new projects and promotes artists and cultural groups across our campus. Since its founding in 2006, the Stanford Arts Institute has been a catalyst helping the Stanford arts community to grow.
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STUDENT DANCE & THEATER ASSOCIATIONThis social network connects the numerous student-run dance and theater groups on campus.
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STANFORD LIVEStanford Live curates experiences that engage artists’ and audiences’ imagination, creativity, and sense of adventure. Founded in 1969 at Stanford University, we produce and present music, theater, dance, spoken word, and multi-media events. We place a special focus on innovation and risk-taking, and through commissions and premieres are an incubator and destination for new work. Stanford Live plays a leading and collaborative role in the university’s thriving vision of a sustained culture of creativity--one in which the arts integrate with the academic disciplines, flourish as a vital part of campus and community life, and inspire new perspectives on our lives and culture.
