This course will investigate what Bonnie Marranca, editor of Performing Arts Journal, describes as theatre"in which the painterly and sculptural qualities of performance are stressed transforming this theatre into a spatially-dominated one activated by sense impressions, as opposed to a time-dominated one ruled by linear narrative." This class will examine the work and methodology of some of the practitioners of this form, including Robert Wilson, Meredith Monk, Ping Chong, and Mabou Mines. This study will prepare class members to create their own short pieces, which will take a Theatre of Images approach to a specific theme to be determined by the class. Evaluation will be based on class participation in discussion and labs, one major paper and class presentation of the material covered in the paper, and a final project which will be a short performance piece. Prerequisite: completion of a 200-level course in any of the performing or fine arts, or permission of the instructor.