grade 12 (or equivalent);
Education Level: High School Diploma or equivalent
Students in the Monthly Progressive Method Acting Training act in a theatre or film production every single month.
| Consult and Plan |
January 2010 - Impulsiveness, spontaneous reaction, creativity
Subjects:
Acting
Voice
Text Analysis
Movement
Improvization
Acting in Production
Art Discussion
Overview: Acting: The student develops acting skills through a series of exercises
based on the principles of stage reality. Actors acquire a technique that allows them to access
their emotional life and express it through natural and truthful behavior.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice
Text Analysis
Movement
Improvization
Acting in Production
Art Discussion
Overview: Text Analysis teaches students to read and analyze dramatic text. Students determine the use of professional terminology such as obstacles, given circumstances, units, beats, and attitude in their research.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice
Text Analysis
Movement
Improvization
Acting in Production
Art Discussion
Overview: Voice is a course strongly focused on the development of professional understanding of the use of voice and sound. Students learn a complex of exercises to warm up their vocal apparatus.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice
Text Analysis
Movement
Improvization
Acting in Production
Art Discussion
Overview: The course in Movement works to refine the actor's physical apparatus.
The classes assist the performer in removing unnecessary physical habits. The objective is to enable the actor to have a fully articulated and expressive physical instrument - a body that is free, responsive and animated.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization
Acting in Production
History of Drama, Discussion
Overview: Art Discussion is designed to introduce the student to the variety of shapes, forms,shadows, and colors used in visual arts. Students develop the skill of playing with images and expressing emotions through colors, shapes, and textures. This course aims at the expansion of the designer's and craftsman's imagination and creativity.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization
Acting in Production
History of Drama, Discussion
Overview: Technical Production is designed to introduce students to the technical part of the staging process. Students work with supervisors to construct and assemble sets for upcoming theatre productions.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization
Acting in Production
History of Drama, Discussion
Overview: Acting opens a new, more practical aspect of performance work where students work in teams to experience professional ethic relation-ships. At this advanced level actors analyze, design, rehearse, advertise, and produce a one-act play with only two characters in it. During the four month process of guidance, improvisation, and scene study work, students complete to the perfection a small theatre performance. Finishing Acting, they are able to create their own one-act theatre production. Shows are open for the public.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization
Acting in Production
History of Drama, Discussion
Overview: Writing: Continues all the aspects of Text Analysis. Text Analysis/ Writing teaches students to read and analyze dramatic text. Students determine the use of professional terminology such as obstacles, given circumstances, units, beats, and attitude in their research.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization
Acting in Production
History of Drama, Discussion
Overview: Diction: This work forces the student to concentrate on consonant and vowel sounds and to develop the means for working with difficult prose and poetry. Along with this, the actor will work on phrasing, inflection, and rhythm.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization
Acting in Production
History of Drama, Discussion
Overview: Improvization: Students learn to develop concentration skills, movement awareness, and how to minimize the effort on stage. Gesture and commu-nication, the origin of the gestures and qualities of the gestures lead the students to the actor's physical cha-racteristics and to discover existing physical characterizations in the text.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization
Acting in Production
History of Drama, Discussion
Overview: Stage Acting introduces student actors to the shapes, forms, shade, and color used in design techniques. Students learn to draw, sketch, portray, and play with space forms. The course aims to continue the training started with Visual Expression and to provoke the
actor's imagination and originality.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization
Acting in Production
History of Drama, Discussion
Overview: Acting Production is designed as an introduction in sound, lighting, stage management and all assistant positions in a theatre production team. Students work
with supervisors to construct and assemble sets for upcoming theatre productions.
January 2011 - Visualization and composition
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization/On-camera acting
Acting in Production
History
of Fine Arts, Discussion
Overview: History of Fine Art/Discussion: The course is designed to introduce students to the history
of architecture and stage design in ancient European theatre. History
of drama and Stage Design is also designed to introduce students to the
European drama between the Roman Empire and the beginning of the 19th
century.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization/On-camera acting
Acting in Production
History of Fine Arts, Discussion
Overview: Main stage production course. Students take part in a full-length classical or contemporary play. Students are introduced to advertising, public relations, front theatre management, box-office service, rules, and regulations in the professional theatre stage space. A part of this course is also analyzing the audience, critical examination of a professional theatre performance, and the preparation for a final thesis-paper about the characters they play.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization/On-camera acting
Acting in Production
History of Fine Arts, Discussion
Overview: Text Analysis: Students further develop their skills to define drama elements such as Conflict; The Organization of Action as a Plot; Crisis as Dramatic Action; and Super Objective.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization/On-camera acting
Acting in Production
History of Fine Arts, Discussion
Overview: Voice: The course continues the work from Voice/Diction, students concentrate on consonant and vowel sounds while working with difficult prose and poetry.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
On-camera acting
Acting in Production
History of Fine Arts, Discussion
Overview: Movement: The course provides training in several popular dances.A complex of classical ballet exercises builds the actor's body alignment and creates self-awareness, self-discipline, and grace.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
On-camera acting
Acting in Production
History of Fine Arts, Discussion
Overview: Acting In Production: The course covers relationship, scene work, justification, physical and voice obstacles and character interpretation. It includes the preparation for videotaped monologues, reviewed by the student and the teacher in order to assess the work. Students develop a professional portfolio. The studio provides lectures and seminars held by industry professionals, agents, casting directors etc.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
On-camera acting
Acting in Production
History of Fine Arts, Discussion
Overview: Acting in Production is designed to introduce Students to make-up, costume, and hair design as well as to all assistant positions in a theatre production team. Students work with supervisors to construct and assemble a set for the upcoming
second year theatre production.
August 2011 - Illusion and reality in acting
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
On-camera acting
Technical Production
History
of Fine Arts
Overview: Discussion is designed to introduce student actors
to the latest practical and theoretical ideas and researches in dramatic
literature and performance. This course observes contemporary dramatic forms
of art since the beginning of the 20th century. The course introduces students
to the history of architecture and stage design in Medieval and Renaissance
European theatre.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization
Technical Production
Visual Expression/Character Design
Overview: History of Fine Arts is a historical overview of modern and post-modern art and their most famous and important representatives.
Subjects:
Acting
Voice/Diction
Text Analysis/Writing
Movement
Improvization
Technical Production
Visual Expression/Character Design
Overview: Acting: Students continue to explore their emotions using paint, and space forms, they learn more about composition and balance. Students in Stage acting are also involved in design and construction work for the second year productions.