174 CONTACT HOURS
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM PLUS CULTURE TRIPS
Acting Class
Psychology--Physicality--Spontaneity
Focuses on the following areas:
* A contemporary approach to the Stanislavsky System.
* Method of etudes (training the actor through focused improvisations).
* Special exercises designed for cultivating presence on the stage.
* Special exercises designed for the development of a role.
* Imaginary physical conditions and physical life.
* Physical action, psychology and imagination in given circumstances.
* Self-awareness on stage through improvisations.
* Improvement of the actor's interactiveness.
* Avoiding blocks in performance.
* Selections from Chekhov plays rehearsed through acting etudes.
Voice and Speech through Physicality Class
Focuses on the following areas:
* Physical support of vocal expression.
* Training regimen from the senses to physicality to sound.
* Rhythmic basis for expression in voice and speech.
* Exploring the imagination of our impulses for greater vocal expression.
* Training of enunciation, breathing and the voice through a specific regimen or “chain“: from imagination to the voice's impact on ones partner.
* Voice and speech as a part of integral action.
* Nonverbal speech interaction.
Dance and Movement
Special Class for Drama Actors
Focuses on the following areas:
* An anthropological approach to dance in drama school.
* Knowing one's physicality through classical dance exercises.
* An understanding of psychology that is a body-minded
* Instinctive perception of music.
* Exploration of the five elements (chaos, water, earth, fire, air) through movement.
* Movement as a part of an integral action.
* Physical interaction.
Culture Theory Class
* Russian Art Epochs.
* Theatre Methods. Stanislavsky. Meyerhold. Vakhtangov. Michael Chekhov. Anatoly Efros. Anatoly Vasilyev.
* Contemporary theatre trends.
* Discussion of productions watched during the Course.
Survival Russian Language Class:
* Russian alphabet
* Basic communication phrases
* Reading signs
* Russian accent in English speaking
All teaching is offered by experienced faculty
of St.Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy
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Academic certificates are issued so that you may get credits for this semester at your college.
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In addition to classes regular theatre visits and guided tours to art museums are included.
THIS PROGRAM IS FOR TRAINING OF PROFESSIONALS.
WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO APPLY: STUDENTS OF THEATRE DEPARTMENTS/SCHOOLS (IN PRESENT OR BEFORE)
For application we need a short message that indicates:
your name, age, home university, experience in theatre education (number of semesters you took, major or minor, no less than one) and a picture on stage or in theater class.
Please feel free to get details: international@tart.spb.ru
Have a walk around the Academy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adef5leluyo
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