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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
2 credits Open to non-majors with permission of instructor. Twice a week. An application of the tools of directing introduced in PFA 340. Working with specific texts, the student will be taught to conceptualize production, to budget, audition, and cast, to realize the scenes, to deal with actor’s problems, and, finally, to identify and bring to life the accents and rhythms of the production.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits Working with the isolation of each dialect’s “signature sounds”and learning the techniques of shifting the focus of speech resonance, students are taught to research, document, rehearse,and develop accents and dialects for stage, animation, recording, or other use, while mastering their own personal vocal instrument
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3.00 Credits
3 credits To introduce students to the concept of cabaret theatre in a viable, working way. To understand the historical context for the art form from Chat Noir in France, to Dadaism, burlesque, vaudeville, and modern equivalents.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits Open to majors only. How to prepare monologues through proper selection and development; how to attract agents, search for work opportunities, and prepare for them; and how to prepare specific audition material for graduate school and regional or repertory theatre.
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2.00 Credits
Open to fourth-year majors only. 2 credits Actors will be taught to use their own personality traits, acting strengths, skill, and inclinations to discover their own style; from a spectrum of sources, they will prepare and perform a solo performance that will best serve that style.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Open to non-majors—twice weekly. A blueprint for the management and production of theatre in all its various aspects. A complete nuts and bolts course that will be used in any performing arts management situation. Fully discussed are: fundamentals of theatrical producing (the idea, the manager for the idea, the performance space and the staff); methods (commercial New York, stock, resident, university and community theatre); business management (cost, cost control, box office and generating additional revenue); theatre and audience (community and press rela tions, publicity, advertising, promotion, audience engineering, and psychology).
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2.00 Credits
2 credits Open to majors only. On-camera technique for television commercials.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits Open to fourth-year majors only. An intensive examination of the Stanislavskian basis for psychologically realistic acting. Theory and readings support serious work on realistic monologues and scenes from the modern theatre. Individual problems relating to the actor’s capacity to be vulnerable and truthful are addressed.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Adelphi Youth Empowerment Project (AYEP). This course introduces a select group of performing arts seniors to the 52nd Street model of “playmaking” with elementary school students from the local area. Each senior will be mentor to a child. Over an eight-week period (or nine sessions including the final presentation) the mentors will use the model to assist the child in writing an original two-character play that the child and the mentor will perform as a culmination of the outreach project.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits Learning the techniques of choosing self-advantageous material, of assessing the self professionally, and of attracting an audience of professional agents and casting people is rewarded with a Manhattan performance for a professional audience for graduating senior actors.
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