Title:
Dramatic Techniques III

Offered:
Full Year

Instructors:
Faculty

Description:

Alexander Technique: Individual and/or group sessions to refine the use of tools learned in the first and second years and their application both on and off the stage.

Jazz Dance: To help achieve complete physical freedom, enhance enjoyment of the body in motion, and find a fuller expression of sensuality.

Makeup: Through the first semester, students learn basic makeup (including street makeup for women), correcting makeup, and character makeup, including the use of wigs (and facial hair for men), as well as prosthetics. The class is largely a practical workshop and includes the assembling of personal makeup kits suited to individual requirements.

Movement: A physical acting lab focusing on the development and enrichment of a physically expressive vocabulary using texts and individual imaginative resources. Using exercises and skills learned during the first and second years, students will structure a warm-up routine and continue with exercises that enable a strong connection with both a partner and the group.

Poetry in Motion: The aim of the class is to explore the possibilities of movement fused with poetic imagination. Students will generate their own poetry while exploring physical movement inspired by their own text. The marriage of body and language promotes an enriched sense of rhythm, narrative, connection to emotion, and physical life.

Singing: Focus on individual and group coaching geared to the needs of an actor.

Speech: Work specifically geared to roles in current productions.

Suzuki Method: Developed by internationally-acclaimed director Tadashi Suzuki, the Suzuki Training Method is a rigorous physical discipline drawn from such diverse influences as ballet, traditional Greek and Japanese theater, and martial arts. The training seeks to heighten the actor's emotional and physical power and commitment to each moment on stage. Attention is on the lower body and a vocabulary of footwork, sharpening an actor's breath control and concentration.

Voice: See First Year.

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