**APPLICATION IS THE AUDITION ON 2/2 (INFO LISTED BELOW)
COURSE DESCRIPTION
1-3 Units depending on the level of time commitment required for your role
12-24 hours/week for 10 weeks depending on your role in the show
28 hours/week for 2 weeks (run through week, tech week, & show weekend)
Students will learn how to collaborate with other artists and discover what it is like to work in a pre-professional space. They will learn how to take risks, trust their creative instincts, and work in a pre-professional space in order to create a meaningful work of art and bring a new piece of theater to life.
The course will focus on understanding the artistic world of late 1800s-early 1930s New York and how to translate that into the world of a new original musical. Students will learn about the lives of various visual artists of the time period, study visual art works featured in the show, and study the history of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney and the beginning of The Whitney Museum. Students will also learn what it means to produce a feminist musical and contemporize history in musical art.
This course builds upon the students’ fundamental principles and foundational skills for acting, dancing, and singing. Through exploration of given circumstances, character objects, and listening and responding, students will expand their acting technique. Performers will also be learning how to research a historical character and delve deeply into the time period they are recreating. Performers will expand their singing skills by developing: their vocal technique, sight reading, ability to warm up, their understanding of different genres of music, harmonization, aural training, and lyric diction. Performers will expand their dancing skills by developing: their movement technique, the mastering of choreography, their understanding of different genres of dance, their ability to warm up, body flexibility, physical conditioning, and overall body awareness in space. As a company, performers will learn how to collaborate as an ensemble within all three of these skills.
Students will be expected to rehearse their music, choreography, blocking, and lines outside of class so please set 1-2 hours during the week before class to do so. This will be especially important the closer we get to opening night.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
By the end of the semester students will:
• Strengthen their ability to speak, project, and listen on stage
• Learn how to create a truthful world out of fiction
• Hone their concentration skills
• Collaborate with other artists
• Take direction from a director
• Learn practical rehearsal techniques
• Improve their vocal performance quality through technical rehearsal
• Improve their movement and dance through understanding quality of movement and technique
• Understand how to discover and develop a character
• Research the historical context of a show and apply it to their performance
• Memorize and master a work and perform it on stage
METHOD OF INSTRUCTION
This class will mostly consist of collaborative learning during the rehearsal process. There will be three dramaturg lectures that students will take notes on (listed in schedule). They will also listen to their production team (choreographer, music instructor, director) so that could be looked at as a form of daily lecture. Most learning will happen through the group discussion of the script and music, the extent to which actors pick up, apply, and master their performance skills,
and how they translate all their historical knowledge and artistic license into their characters and work together as a company.
DAILY REQUIREMENTS
A Typical Rehearsal consists of:
1. A daily check in with the full company and run down of what we will do/announcements.
2. A vocal and or physical warm up depending on the activity of the day
3. Actors will split off to their designated area for the routine of that day (scene blocking, vocal
rehearsal, or choreo rehearsal)
4. Come back together for notes/check out
Preliminary auditions: 2/2 3-9pm Hearst Gym 234
Callbacks: 2/3 12:00 - 4:00 PM in Hearst Gym 228
Rehearsals: M/Tu/W/Th/F 6-10pm Morrison 124
Show dates: 4/26, 4/27, 5/3, and 5/4 at 8 pm. 4/28 and 5/5 matinees.
To sign up for auditions and more info: https://www.facebook.com/events/512172525942753/
Final exam: Tech Week participation, attendance, and efforts & final performances
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