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This course provides students practical experience in one or more aspects of production during the fall semester. Each student is assigned specific crew work in a production depending on his or her skill level and knowledge.

This course provides students practical experience in one or more aspects of production during the spring semester. Each student is assigned a specific crew work in a production depending on his or her skill level and knowledge.

Students will be in a studio class through a series of barre, adagio, petit allegro, and turns exercises. Students will learn the principles and techniques of American classical ballet. By learning a series of ballet combinations, students will begin to learn some of the choreographic principles and styles of classical dance.

Students will be in a studio class through a series of barre, adagio, petit allegro, and turns exercises. Students will learn the principles and techniques of American classical ballet. By learning a series of ballet combinations, students will begin to learn some of the choreographic principles and styles of classical dance.Restriction/Requirement:This course is open to students in Musical Theatre major only.

The study of jazz dance techniques. During discussing and assignments students will be encourages to develop their critical awareness of jazz dancing as a performing art.

Class at Broadway Dance Center based on skill placement. A continuation of the work done in DAN 102. Students will learn through barre and floor exercises and enable them to pick up and learn jazz steps and combinations that will strengthen them as jazz dance performers. Proper warm-up and alignment will be stressed.Restriction/Requirement:This course is open to students majoring in Musical Theater only.

This advanced 300 level course will develop the student's ability to execute various styles of jazz steps and proficiency incorporate them into a dance composition. The students will apply advanced technique to performance theories and concepts, as well as audition skills. The course will also examine the theory, technique, and vocabulary of jazz and explore individual artistic style.

The study of theater dance techniques. During discussions and assignments students will be encouraged to develop their critical awareness of musical theater dance as a performing art.

This course is designed to develop the student's ability to understand and properly execute theatre dance movement/styles of the various decades: 1900AD-present day. The student will complete this class with a thorough overview of theater dance styles and the tools to successfully audition and perform in musical theatre dance.

This course is designed to develop the student's beginning tap technique vocabulary, performance, and basic understanding of Tap.

A combination of Modern, Ballet and Jazz stylistically focus on Contemporary Musical Theater dance.

The American Musical Theater is a survey course designed to introduce students to the history of this American Art form. It is a broad-based overview of musical theater entertainment forms such as vaudeville, minstrel, burlesque, musical films and of course stage musicals. The course will cover for groundbreaking artistic movements, styles, creators and works in musical theater.

The study of the tradition and development of the theater art with emphasis on the elements required to develop, produce, and evaluate theatrical productions. Students will write, design direct, and produce their own short play

Analysis and criticism of the current New York theater season, Broadway or off-Broadway productions alternate with classroom discussion. Emphasis is on the writing, pre-production and creative team, and critical review of the final product.

This course involves analysis and criticism of performances in the current New York dance season. Broadway theater, ballet, or modern dance productions alternate with film, videos, and classroom discussions. When possible, symposia with leading dancers of the various productions are arranged. Course Fee: Tickets to Dance Performances.

In this course, students begin to explore their authentic artistic voices through collaborative projects that engage a variety of creative processes.

In this course students explore the theory and practice of developing a dramatic situation. Students write, discuss, and analyze play scripts and analyze appropriate established script models. Restrictions/Requirements: This course is open to students in Directing, Theatre, Acting, Commercial Dance, Musical Theatre, Acting in Film Television Commercials and Voice-Overs, and Actor majors only.

This course provides second-year students actual production experience (acting, production crew, assisting) for academic credit. In addition to fulfilling the stated production work, the student must maintain a journal and complete a final paper addressing the processes involved and the goal(s) achieved. Restriction/Requirement:This course is open to students in Directing, Theatre, Acting, Commercial Dance, Musical Theatre, Acting in Film Television Commercials and Voice-Overs, and Actor majors only.

This course offers international students the opportunity to identify and celebrate the wealth of cultural and social experience they bring to Pace, and PPA in particular. Through discussion and interaction with other international PPA majors, the course provides a platform for the exchange of artistic and social ideas. This exchange fosters a better understanding of each student’s significant impact on their peers, on curriculum, and eventually on the industry itself.

In this course, students learn the basics of safety and partnering techniques in unarmed and sword combat for the stage. Students must work diligently to create a safe environment while portraying a character in a fight performance. Topics include punches reactions, vocals, knaps, sword attacks, parries, sword tricks, and an introduction to the art of quarterstaff fighting.Restriction/Requirement: This course is open to students in Directing, Theatre, Acting, Commercial Dance, Musical Theatre, Acting in Film Television Commercials and Voice-Overs, and Actor majors only.

In this course students study techniques of theater improvisation and then use these techniques to create original material for dynamic performance. Specific forms of improvisation are explored including monologue, storytelling, the satiric sketch, and comedy revue. Students develop a major performance event based on improvisation as the culmination of the course. Restriction/Requirement: Student registering for this course need to have a GPA of 2.5 or higher. This course is open to students in Directing, Theatre, Acting, Commercial Dance, Musical Theatre, Acting in Film Television Commercials and Voice-Overs, and Actor majors only.

This course explores global theater tradition, history, and performance in post-colonial societies. Students study cultures/countries around the world for the purpose of investigating nonEurocentric cultural perspectives, race and post-colonial identity, Ongoing issues of colonialization, the contributions and agency of the indigenous cultures, artistic fusion and appropriation, and basic comprehension of actor-audience relationships in live theater.

This course will introduce students to the new international field of Theatre and Social Change. Students will read and research historical and contemporary theatre companies that do this kind of theatre. They will develop, in small groups, a short piece reflecting their own concerns for theatre and social change. Students will also examine the different environments, reasons, ethics, and structures of theatre and social change, in American and international culture. This emphasis is on exposing the students the reasons and methodology of creating and working in theatre that effects change.

Students will be trained in the various techniques of the Theater of the Oppressed. Through class discussions and affinity-establishing techniques that are part of Theater of the Oppressed, the students will select issues that demonstrate the need for more social justice. Examples of these issues may include class/gender/race inequality, LGTBQ justice, the environment, immigration or other topics that the students find compelling. The students will research local organizations that are working in the areas that have been chosen. By developing their own original theatrical presentations the students will put into practice their understanding of the principals that guide Theater of the Oppressed to support the work that is currently being done in New York City around these issues.

In this elective course student’s study theater associated with various social movements in order to learn more about theater’s participation in social change. Students will analyze dramatic literature and social theory in order to see how these forces influence each other and society. NY; Fall and Spring

The course will introduce students to the fundamental skills and theories of acting with an emphasis on the system developed by the Russian born actor/director Stanislavski. The introduction to the art of acting will keep the focus on work on the self based on exploratory exercises. Developing and cultivating the emotional life of actors in order to create a character that is truthful is the goal of acting I. The course will consist of exercises designed to relax and ready actors, enabling them to explore concepts as they relate to the text with emphasis on actor development and growth through monologues, scene performances.

The primary focus of this course is to gain a greater proficiency and expertise in the area of the verse for the stage. Students will study dramatic text designed for the stage ranging from Shakespeare to Lorca as well as more modern poetry and verse by writers/performers such as Allen Ginsberg, Sekou Sundiata and Roger Bonair-Agard. A study and comparison between the Poetic Dramatic monologue and the Actor’s monologue will be examined. Students will learn, rehearse and perform published and/or classical verse-monologues as well as get a chance to write their own work for performance.

This course examines how the spoken word has evolved from its earliest stages and most primitive beginnings to what it is today. Students study the historical origins of the art and participate in a critical, historical, and political analysis of ancient and modern chants, lyrics, and poetries from a variety of global cultures.

This course cultivates students' entrepreneurial spirit through exploration of the procedures used to produce a NYC showcase production. Using off Broadway as a context, practical information about that production model is complimented by larger discussions about the producer’s role and industry challenges faced in the creative process.

For the first time ever, via our current television streaming era, we have in-home access to popular culture content from around the world. This course aims to examine everything from performance and storytelling styles to how economics, social, and national politics are depicted and discussed in individual countries via popular television entertainment.

This course examines the work of African-American artists from the 1800s to the 2000s, tracing lines of influence and connecting the artists and their work to historical moments and movements within Black communities across America. Students consider works by former enslaved people and learn about initiatives such as the Black Nationalism Movement, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Civil Rights Movement. Students study contemporary artists and art forms, such as hip-hop, that continue the work of telling the story of the African arts diaspora today. Coursework includes extensive reading, critical analysis, written work, and research, and may also include dramatic exercises.

Musical Theatre Writing is a comprehensive art form combining three elements: 1) Music-which is composed of melodies, accompaniment, orchestration, vocal arrangements and more; 2)Lyrics-texts set in time; and 3)Book-composed of dialogue, design, character, plot, and story. In this course students will be exposed to and will learn the basics of creating a full-length musical theatre piece. Restriction/Requirement: This course is open to BA and BFA students majoring in Acting, Acting for Film/Television/Voice-overs/Commercials, Directing, or Musical Theatre. Course Campus:NY:Spring.

Musical Theatre Writing is a comprehensive art form combining 3 elements: 1, Music which is composed of melodies, accompaniment, orchestration, vocal arrangements and more; 2, Lyrics-text set in time; and 3, Book-composed of dialogue, design, character, plot and story. In this course, students will be exposed to and will learn the basics of creating a full-length musical theatre piece.

The course builds on the skills set necessary to act in front of the camera. The course aims to help students re-channel the physical energy required for stage to more intimate behaviors-driven acting needed for on-camera work. The class will be taught in a hands-on lab style approach. Physical movement, blocking, as well as "cold reading" of the script and work situations similar to actual "episodic" programming experiences will be covered. Included are space and fourth wall exercise, personalization and substitution work. Actors will perform in a multiple-camera studio. Performances will be played-back and critiqued at every session.

For Directors and other filmmaking professionals, effective communication and the understanding of acting for the camera is imperative. In this course, basic exploration of acting fundamentals will be learned along with different on-camera acting techniques. Proper communication between Directors and Actors will be practiced. As in many film and television projects, students will work with the added challenge of heightened emotional and non-sequential storytelling. Students will do class exercises and assignments so both Actors and Directors will better understand the needs of the roles.

This course examines the history of circus in America. It guides students through the art form's milestones from ancient acrobats and jugglers to its present-day professional and recreational resurgence. Lectures and discussions cover circus as a corporate venture and how, through performance, gender and racial identities were both reinforced and challenged. These performances shaped adolescent America, Americans' identity, and continue to influence culture and entertainment today.

Through a series of warm-ups, exercises in kinesthetic and empathic response, and group and individual improvisations, students explore their ability to express physically and vocally, to soften the intellect fully and play more purely from impulses and desire, and to explore the physical dimensions of laughter. The red nose is introduced and students are encouraged to explore the endless curiosity, boundless enthusiasm, and explosive insistences on fun of the show-off. Through readings, analysis of outside performances, and class discussions, students will gain a greater understanding of the variety of styles huddled together under the umbrella of clown technique.

See syllabus. Course Campus:NYC: Fall, Spring.

This course will examine the rhyme scheme, cadence, musicality and physicality involved in performing poetry. A study of work of popular poets who have a name for themselves in the world of performance art, slam poetry and spoken word will be followed by a performance workshop where students will breakdown poetic text. Just as an actor would memorize and prepare a monologue or scene, students will prepare and re-work solo and group pieces of poetry focusing on the vocal and physical aspects of their performance as well as ways to incorporate costume, props, music and the collaboration of other artistic mediums.

This course focuses on the business and artistic aspects of the casting industry, both for theater and on-camera casting.

Practical experience on the job in cooperation with Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off Broadway, film and television companies, and regional and summer stick theaters. Hours vary according to the nature of the nature of the internship. Some, but not all, provide students compensation. In addition to supervisor evaluation, students will be expected to complete a log of their activities and meet regularly with a faculty mentor.

In this course students select a topic for guided study that is not included in the regular course offerings. The student meets regularly with a faculty mentor to assess progress. A research paper, documented performance, or portfolio project must also be completed and submitted for review. Restriction/Requirement:Student registering for this course need to have a GPA of 2.5 or higher. This course is open to students in Directing, Theatre, Acting, Commercial Dance, Musical Theatre, Acting in Film Television Commercials and Voice-Overs, and Actor majors only.

This course focuses on the business and artistic aspects of the casting industry, both for theater and on-camera casting. By the end of the course, students will have an enhanced understanding of the fundamentals of the casting industry. Topics covered include creative teams, the role of the casting director, how casting directors get hired, the audition process, list-making, setting up auditions, tracking actors, archiving and file- keeping, database management, casting and camera technology, union regulations, contracts and other aspects of the art of casting.

This course offers the actor the tools to develop a wild and free, yet technically precise physical life onstage. Bringing Commedia dell'arte to life will develop the actor's sensitivity and ability to play at a grand scale, full of muscularity and poetry. Using masks, rhythm, improvisation, and song, actors will investigate the elusive comic world of Commedia, and celebrate all the hilarity, satire, delight, and bawdiness that audiences have loved for hundreds of years. Course Campus:NY:Spring.

This course introduces acting students to methods of filmmakers Mike Leigh and John Cassavetes, and acting coaches Keith Johnstone and Judith Weston in creating characters for film. Using five caricatures studied from real life studied, students develop one of them into a full-blown, in depth character. Course Campus:NY:Spring.

Students will read, work with, and otherwise engage with a number of plays in order to establish an understanding of the specific analytical needs of actors, directors, and designers. Students will examine several approaches to script analysis, keeping a keen eye towards finding the approach that best serves the students in his or her artistic pursuits. Through readings, discussions, projects, and presentations, students will function as an artistic community, working together to question and unpack some of the great works of the dramatic cannon.

This course covers the creative and technical foundations of audiobook and other long form narration, and prepares students for casting readiness in a variety of long-form narration genres.

In this immersive course, students use theater-based techniques as tools for social change in international communities. The course provides an introductory training in Global Empowerment Theatre’s devising techniques in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The course culminates in a theater piece written and performed by Zanzibari secondary school students and co-facilitated by Pace students and Global Empowerment Theatre.

In this course, the instructor will assign students scenes from styles of plays the individual student has not yet worked on. Styles addressed include naturalism, realisms, absurd, post-modern, ancient Greek, comedy of manners, Jacobean, Elizabethan, Theatre of Cruelty, Renaissances, epic, and others. Each student will work in three different genres during the semester.

The course continues building on the fundamental and refined principles of actor training that is developed by Sands seniors. The objective is to create a crosspollination between text-based performance programs their senior year. It will clarify the distinctions between acting for the stage and screen. The course will demystify and synthesize the technique of the actor who seeks to move comfortably between the mediums of stage and screen building a savvy and confident understand between the two. The class will be taught in a hands-on lab style approach. With the integration this course will provide a deeper opportunity for collaboration between Sands text-based students. Restrictions/Requirements: Senior standing, AND permission of advisor