Summer Camps and Summer Programs at New York Institute of Technology - New York (New York City / Manhattan), NY

Description:
Students have the opportunity to earn 3 college credits while investigating an area of interest or future college major. Programs introduce high school students, who have completed grades 10-12, to college-level course work taught by experienced NYIT faculty. Seminars, guest speakers, and activities provide additional enrichment and fun. Students may choose the following pre-college program located at the NYIT Manhattan Campus location:
Exploring Architecture in Manhattan

Program Information:
coed • day program on the Manhattan Campus • motivated high school students
The program meets Mondays, Wednesdays & Thursdays over a 4-week period
July 6th through July 30th, 2009, 10am-3pm
cost: tuition-$1695.00, activities fee -$125.00, application fee $15.00.

Description:
Acting Shakespeare Teen Summer Intensive (for 15-18 year olds) combines Physical Theater, Movement Training and Character Development acting methods with Classical Shakespearian Language to provide young actors with the fundamentals required in the professional acting arena.

Classes will be held at the long-established and prominent Actors Movement Studio in Midtown Manhattan, NY in the heart of the Theater District.
July 5 - July 25, 2009 from 10 AM – 5:30 PM daily. For registration, application, fees and further details, please go to website link below in the contact section. Dorm housing available upon request (additional charge)

Studio faculty, as well as master teachers and guest teaching artists, will participate in the training over the 3-week intensive period.

Participants will have the opportunity to: Study with Master Teachers and Guest Artists
Learn acting techniques used by NYC acting professionals
Train in the heart of New York City’s legendary and historic theatre district

Train with Master Teachers:
• Williamson Physical Technique
• Elizabethan Period Style Character
• Shakespearean Text
• Shakespeare Monologues and Scene Work
• Linklater Voice Technique
• Michael Chekhov Technique
• Viewpoints & Composition
• RasaBoxes

Guest Artist Master Classes
• Mask-Neutral and Character
• Mime and Pantomime
• Elizabethan Dance
• Stage Combat
• Puppetry

Additional Information:
The Faculty consists of Master Teachers and Guest Artists:
Janice Orlandi- Artistic Director of Actors Movement Studio NYC, Certified teacher of Williamson Physical Technique and Period Style and Dance; Bill Bowers- renowned Mime artist who recently worked with John Turturro and Aida Turturro in the Soul of Naples on Broadway and in Italy; Shelley Wyant- Founding Artistic Director of internationally acclaimed mask & puppet performance company MaskWork Unlimited, Shelley has taught classes and workshops for NYU, Yale, Circle in the Square, Smith, Brown, Stella Adler Conservatory, The Actors Studio MFA Program, and Bard College, among many others; Paula Murray Cole- RASABOXES TRAINING, Co-Director of Education for East Coast Artists. Taught acting, voice and movement and directed productions at Ithaca College, the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, Interlochen National Arts Camp, Trollwood Summer Performing Arts Camp, and the Governor's Magnet School for the Arts of Virginia.