Studies late 20th & early 21st Century African American Post-Modern Literature, Drama, and Performance. Theatrical Jazz (TJ) is a creative form combines multidisciplinary improvisational performance modes to stage narrative and lyrical text, voicing, drama, and movement. Drawing primarily on work created after 1970, this class examines abstract, non-traditional texts created during the millennial era. The class focuses on what stories and kinds of tellings that challenge narrative structures are enabled by this form.