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UPPER LEVEL TRAINING
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Kevin Kuhlke leads a warm-up in his directing class. |
Third And Fourth Year:
The upper level curriculum builds on the first two years of training through advanced technique work and exposure to a range of performance styles in theatre, dance and music. Each student creates her or his own schedule from the various upper level courses offered that semester. The training options change from year to year, depending on the needs and special interests of the third and fourth year students. And a variety of production options are available, including ensemble-created production work, guest-directed production work, and student independent productions.
The following are examples of recent upper level options.
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Guest instructor Karen Finley observes her self-scripting master class. |
Acting/Performance Art/Writing for Theatre
- Scene Study (Chekhov and Beckett)- Andre Gregory
- Medieval Mystery Plays - Ruth Maleczech (Mabou Mines)
- Brechtian Theatre Making - Kevin Kuhlke
- Shakespeare/Moliere - Steve Wangh, Kevin Kuhlke
- Contemporary Scene Study - E. Katherine Kerr, Terry Knickerbocker
- Advanced Physical Theatre - Andre Gregory, Steve Wangh
- Advanced Improvisation - Steve Wangh
- Audition Technique - Terry Knickerbocker
- Film Audition - Paul Lazar
- Self-Scripting - Karen Finley, Peggy Pettitt, Rosemary Quinn
- Self-Scripting - Holly Hughes, Lois Smith, Peggy Shaw
- Playwriting - Erin Cressida Wilson, Steve Wangh
- Solo Work - Marcus Stern, Louise Smith
- Video Art - Cathy Weis
- Found Object Puppetry - Erik Blanc
- Theatre Of Choice - Daniel Banks
- Directing - Kevin Kuhlke
- Erving Goffman Applied to Theatre - Kevin Kuhlke
- Piece Making - Jeff Webster (Wooster Group)
- Clowning and Commedia - Chris Bayes
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Choreography teacher Annie-B Parson in her upper level class. |
Movement
- La La La Human Steps (ballet and rep) - Louise Lecavalier, France Bruyere
- Butoh - Maureen Fleming
- Le Coq Mask Work - Isabelle Anderson, Per Brahe
- Afro-Haitian - Pat Hall and Pam Patrick
- Choreography - David Neumann, Annie-B Parson, Mary Overlie, Stephen Petronio, Kate Valk (Wooster Group), Paul Langland, Wendell Beavers
- Advanced 6 View-Points - Mary Overlie
- Advanced Contact Improv - Kirtsie Simson, David Zambrano, Katie Duck
- Suzuki - Kelly Maurer and members of SITI company
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Jeff Halpern accompanies a student in his Bel Canto Singing class. |
Voice
- Advanced Linklater - Cecil MacKinnon
- Advanced Vocal Improvisation and Free Jazz Singing - Lisa Sokolov
- Advanced Roy Hart Technique - Jonathan Hart
- Bel Canto Singing applied to all styles - Jeff Halpern
- Speech - Nancy Mayans, Walton Wilson, Natsuko Ohama
- Contemporary Music Composition - Johnathan Hart, Andy Warshaw
Recent Guest Seminars & Master Classes:
Designed to give ETW upper level students access to theatre artists whose schedules do not permit extended teaching residencies, guest seminars have included included Sam Shepard, Bill Irwin, The San Francisco Mime Troupe, Theater Gardzienice. Joseph Chaikin, Michelle George (from Peter Brooks Company), Martin Santangelo (Noche Flamenco), Kristin Linklater, Sir Peter Hall, Joe Daly, Ann Carlson, Tina Landau, and Dr. Jessica Benjamin (dramaturgical applications of feminist psychoanalytic theory).
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