Just some more information about Summer Theatre Institute.
It is a 4 week program. This year it was housed in Juilliard. It is a VERY ensemble driven program. There is musical theatre and straight theatre. Both 'majors' have class together in the morning. Everyone takes Movement, Speech and Voice, Stage Combat, Mime, and a few other classes. YOu take 2 classes every morning.
Then we eat lunch and split up. Musical Theatre kids have 2 more classes in the afternoon. They are usually some combo of Singing, Dance, Acting (Scene to Song), Audition, Song and Dance, and a few others.
Straight Theatre had their Acting class 5 days a week with an absolutely amazing teacher named Kevin Kittle, who works at Mason Gross. Their other afternoon period was usually Scene Study, and it was occasionally something else, like Improv.
Everyone eats dinner together, and at night we all have Preformance Ensemble. Sometimes this would be a special class (we had an INCREDIBLE night of a viewpoints class), sometimes it would be group excersizes, and on Sundays, everyone had to present at least 7 things from classes during the week.
The focus of the progrm is on training, but we do preform and original show. The hours of work are VERY long, and it is an extremely exhausting program, but so so so worth it. The people are some of the best I have worked with (especially whatyouown's cousin, love her!), and I have learned an insane amount.
"We don't value the lily less for not being made of flint and built to last. Life's bounty is in it's flow, later is too late. Where is the song when it's been sung, the dance when it's been danced? It's only we humans who want to own the future too."
- Tom Stoppard, Shipwreck