Performing Arts
Acting and Play Production*
Intensive Dance Program*
All Grades
EXTENDED MINOR
Working from the ground up, students learn how to use their minds, bodies, and voices as professional actors do. Beginning with physical and vocal exercises, improvisation games, and other ensemble-building workshops, the course then moves on to more advanced acting technique. The class learns about scene and character analysis, objectives, obstacles, subtext, status, stakes, back story, and internal conflict. Students also explore a wide range of dramatic form and structure by studying several great plays, including works by Shakespeare, Brecht, Williams, Miller, Vogel, Churchill, Letts, and Beckett. The course culminates in the production of an evening of polished 5-10 minute scenes to be presented on the final weekend of Summer Session, showcasing the work of the entire class.
Prerequisite: Two years of acting experience preferred.
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All Grades
EXTENDED MINOR
This extended minor is designed for students with some formal training and a serious interest in dance. The course is intensive in terms of contact hours and the commitment to dance that the class schedule requires. The dance faculty will offer a program that consists of strength and flexibility training, master classes in jazz dance, a choreography lab, and repertory rehearsal. Students are expected to learn challenging choreography and to develop and teach material of their own in consultation with their instructors. Evening rehearsals prepare students for a public performance on Phillips Academy's main stage in the final week of Summer Session.
Students enrolled in the course will be asked to audition on the first day of class.
Class schedule:
10:30 - 11:15 a.m. Strength and flexibility training
11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Street Jazz Class
This style of dance, which combines classical jazz, hip-hop, and funk, can be seen in the latest hip-hop and pop music videos.
4 - 5:30 p.m. Student choreography lab in lieu of an activity, not Wednesdays or Saturdays
8 - 9:30 p.m. Repertory rehearsal
Only in the last 2 weeks of Summer Session
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