Making Music Theater

People with strong interests sometimes have to make painful choices -- and sometimes not. Sometimes different artistic interests combine to make new art forms -- or to make lives that contain a bewildering variety of activities. This excerpt from an interview at the MN Fringe Festival shows how such creative fusions come about for performing artists.

Learning through mime

Some of the performing arts, in some of their versions, allow artists to reflect on, document, process their experience in multiple ways, over a long time. In this interview, Dean Hatton and Kirsten Stephens tell about their experience developing mime pieces. They also describe the teaching style of Marcel Marceau.

How a class evolves

Juliette Cherbuliez, of the the French and Italian Department, University of Minnesota, talks about the evolution of her thinking about the theme of Medea in literature, as dialogue with students provoked new insights and questions.

Jeanne Willcoxon: directing, teaching, exploring a play with a group of actors

It's my privilege this week to talk to people in various parts of the theater world about their work. This conversation with Jeanne Willcoxon, a director and a faculty member at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, casts some light on the collaborative process of directing a play, on the way that the director and cast explore the central ideas embodied in a script.