四虎影视

Our first-year program encourages students to discover what it means to be an actor and to establish the basis for a personal technique. First-year students do not perform publicly but do present scene work and songs for Conservatory at the end of the year. Classes during the first year of training typically involve:

• Acting
• Voice and speech
• Movement
• Text analysis
• Makeup
• Theatre history

Note: Acting majors may choose to take classes in the Departments of Music and Dance as electives, including private voice lessons, throughout their four years of training.

In their second year, performance majors stretch and strengthen basic techniques by applying them to highly contrasting styles of dramatic literature. Second-year students join the casting pool and are now eligible to perform in the Conservatory season. They also comprise the casting pool for the directing students鈥� 鈥淓very Tuesday鈥� series of performances, 20-minute plays presented almost every Tuesday in the semester. Classes during this second year of training typically involve:

• Acting: contemporary theatre, Ibsen and Chekhov
• Voice and speech: Greek and Shakespeare
• Movement: neutral mask, yoga and pilates
• Song study
• Audition techniques
• Theatre history

Note: Acting majors may choose to take classes in the Departments of Music and Dance as electives, including private voice lessons, throughout their four years of training.

Work in contrasting styles becomes even more ambitious in the third year of training. Students continue to be eligible for casting in the Conservatory season, as well as for opportunities to perform with our professional partners. Classes include:

• Acting: Shakespeare, 17th- and 18th-century Comedy of Manners, Edwardian drama
• Voice and speech: dialects
• Movement: period movement, stage combat, Alexander technique
• Directing
• Improv

Note: Acting majors may choose to take classes in the Departments of Music and Dance as electives, including private voice lessons, throughout their four years of training.

The fourth year aims to provide a smooth transition into professional practice. Students remain eligible for both Conservatory casting and casting opportunities with our professional partners. In Spring, students will participate in Senior Showcase, presenting work to casting agents and directors. Classes typically involve:

• Acting: contemporary scene work, Showcase preparation
• Voice and speech: dialects
• Movement: clown
• Acting for the camera
• Audition techniques and professionalization
• Improv
• Advanced directing electives

Note: Acting majors may choose to take classes in the Departments of Music and Dance as electives, including private voice lessons, throughout their four years of training.