This studio program focuses on the fundamentals of acting. Through voice and movement exercises, centering techniques, and studio work designed to increase physical and emotional stamina, students explore their dramatic imagination and develop a sense of teamwork, discipline, responsibility and self-confidence. The program reflects the professional orientation of the University’s undergraduate Theater program. The students are broken into two sections of approximately 16 students for the majority of their classes with the exception of Friday mornings when the sections gather together for “Lab” time. This program is designed for the serious student actor and many courses are physically challenging. Students should have some theatrical training to participate in the program.
All students in the acting program will take the following courses:
Acting Studio
Movement
Mask Workshop
Stage Combat
Speech
Lab
For more detailed course information, download the Pre-College Summer Institute 2009 catalog.
In the Art + Media Exploration program, high school students explore their individual talents and interests, learn new skills and develop a more comprehensive portfolio. The program provides students with a visual arts, media and communication education experience, comparable to one at the freshman college level. It is also a great opportunity for young artists to experiment with new materials and art forms as they expand their portfolios.
We offer students a choice of over 45 courses from which they choose between two and four classes to create their own unique schedule. Each student chooses two concentrations and up to two electives. Concentrations meet three or five days per week and provide students with nine to fifteen contact hours to focus on subjects that require extensive technical knowledge such as Digital Filmmaking, Photography, Graphic Design or Painting. Electives meet twice weekly and offer students six contact hours to test their skills in fundamentals like Drawing or to try something unconventional, such as Weaving or Experimental Photography.
Art + Media Exploration Classes
For more detailed course information, download the Pre-College Summer Institute 2009 catalog.
This two-week intensive Dance program is designed to provide the serious dancer with an opportunity to hone their skills and explore new techniques and styles within a university environment. The schedule is rigorous, intense and not intended for the beginning dancer. All students are expected to be proficient in dance and experienced, with at least five years of ballet training.
Students in the Dance program take a full day of classes, workshops and rehearsals within the University’s nine spacious, fully-equipped and well-lit dance studios. Courses include accompaniment by professional musicians. Adjacent to the studios are lockers, dressing rooms and lounges.
Hip Hop
Salsa
Pointe
Tap
Performance ensembles offer students the opportunity to work with faculty on choreography. Ensemble selections determine the student’s participation in the final performance on the last day of the program. Ensemble choices include:
Ballet
Modern
Jazz
Hip Hop
For more detailed course information, download the Pre-College Summer Institute 2009 catalog.
Each summer, UArts hosts over 65 students in our intensive Jazz program, which is designed to offer the serious student musician an opportunity to perform with his or her peers in a professional University environment. Students in the two-week intensive Jazz program should be proficient in the instrument they play as well as experienced in jazz. Students have an opportunity to play jazz music while studying under top-notch musicians and master teachers. Participation in the Jazz program is designed to improve the student musician’s knowledge of technique, musical styles, improvisation, theory, ear training, reading and performance in a variety of jazz and contemporary music ensemble settings.
Students are accepted into the program in one of the following performance areas: bass (upright or electric), drum set, guitar, percussion, piano, saxophone, trombone, trumpet and voice. While we recognize that many students play more than one instrument, we require that you choose only one instrument to play and study while enrolled in the program and specify that instrument on the registration form. Please note that enrollment is limited by instrument and therefore students may be waitlisted if an instrument section fills.
For more detailed course information, download the Pre-College Summer Institute 2009 catalog.
This program is designed for serious performers interested in acquiring greater skill and expression in musical theater performance. Students take daily technique classes in music, dance and acting, and rehearse a program of stylistically diverse repertoire that is performed at the end of the four-week program. The program reflects the professional orientation of the University’s undergraduate Musical Theater program. After orientation, students audition for the faculty to determine their level of proficiency in all areas of instruction. They are then broken up into groups of approximately 16 students based upon their training and ability. Therefore, student schedules are varied and not actually determined until after they begin the program.
Musical Theater courses include:
Acting
Voice
Dance
Rehearsal and Performance
For more detailed course information, download the Pre-College Summer Institute 2009 catalog.