<p>The question has been asked as to the number of students recruited this year for the Adler Studio in Tisch's Drama program. I repeat that the number recruited can vary each year and the goals for each studio vary depending upon the capacity of each studio. The goal is to place 70 students in Adler next Fall 2006. In order to meet this goal, 100 invitations have been sent out to applicants.</p>
<p>I was wondering if the moderator might move the discussions re: upcoming production to the productions thread?</p>
<p>Hi, I removed a few off-topic posts - let's leave this thread for "Questions for Tisch Arts Reps". If you want to discuss other issues, please start a new thread. Thanks.</p>
<p>Jasmom, I took your suggestion and moved the discussion of an upcoming Tisch production to our existing thread on "NYU Productions."</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted to Adler and is looking for a current adler student to ask questions of. Anyone have a contact?</p>
<p>Thanks very much for that information Tisch<em>arts</em>rep! :) Would you happen to know if the person you spoke to is enjoying the course?</p>
<p>It sounds like if you feel lost about Tisch, and inclined toward a BA-- go for the BA. Maybe just as important, if you aren't sure exactly what you want or need, then go to the school that offers the best overall experience and the best financial aid package. Sounds like you might decide on grad school down the line, and if so do you really want to have spent more than 200K on your undergrad career? </p>
<p>It's hopeful to hear from someone who is really carefully thinking out their own decisions and basing it (at least in part) on what they don't want to repeat, i.e. a too stressful college career. Best of luck!</p>
<p>Can someone from ETW toss in their 2 cents worth here? It's good to hear from as many studios as possible. Nothing yet from/about ETW. Thanks!</p>
<p>ETW is the studio I'm in - and one that I can speak about the most with first-hand knowledge. There are a total of 34 first-years of us that accepted a spot in ETW and that's usually the number of people that choose to come to ETW, around the 30s. The admitted number I have no idea of, but I hear from others in my studio that a high percentage admitted to ETW choose it. Philosophy and historical information can be found on the ETW website, so briefly: it was the first and only studio at NYU drama, founded to explore new ideas and philosophies of theatre and performance.
First-years are split into 2 groups: a group of 16 and a group of 18. They're just called section 1 and section 2, and the reason this is done [and every studio except Meisner does this because they only have about 18 students] is to keep class sizes small and individualized. First-year curriculum consists of Movement based upon contact improvisation [Steve Paxton I believe, is the originator of contact improv], Linklater Voice, and Acting/Scene-study. These are the classes that are usually 3 times a week, 1.5-2 hours a day, for both semesters. Then there are other 6-week classes that are mixed into the schedule, including a Meisner intensive, Six Viewpoints taught by creator Mary Overlie herself!, Laban-based movement, choreography, and physical improv. taught by drama chair and ETW grad Kevin Kulkhe! And then there are the additional classes such as shiatsu/nutrition, self-scripting, voice/singing, and many others. Sometimes they change every year depending on who's in town, what the classes would like to work on, what Rosemary and Nanc [ETW chairs] feel like would be beneficial, and what's fun.
What's great about ETW is that the classes are held in 721 Broadway, the main TSOA building. Since ETW is the only non-privately affiliated studio, the classes are right by the "main" campus. Additionally, it is on the floor right below the drama administration office, which is convenient. ETW is also one of only several studios to offer first through fourth year training, and a transfer track for students who have completed 2 years in their primary studio and would like to add ETW to their actor training. It is a very popular adv. studio, and thus difficult to get accepted into. Additionally, the Amsterdam drama summer study abroad program is based in ETW, and another very popular program.
ETW does 4 main stage shows a year, 2 in the fall and 2 in the spring. Additionally, 4th years have the opportunity to put on a show as well. As studio training progresses, the foundations from earlier years are built upon, and classes include: Suzuki, electronic imagery, advanced scene-study, buffoonery, Ibsen/Strindberg, singing, dance/choreography, Afri-Haitian dance, Hip-hop/pop-locking dance, auditioning, self-scripting, Brechtian theatre, puppetry, vocal improvisation/jazz singing, more voice and movement training and acting of course, and much more I cant even remember.</p>
<p>Everything I just said can be said more eloquently and better and faster here: <a href="http://www.nyu.edu/tisch/drama/etw/%5B/url%5D">http://www.nyu.edu/tisch/drama/etw/</a></p>
<p>If you still have questions, feel free to message me. Hope this helps.</p>
<p>ETW sounds brilliant! I was going to apply for it initially, but when I read the recommended book (Jerzy Grotowski's Towards A Poor Theatre), it seemed a bit "out there". Now it looks like I made a mistake...</p>
<p>I got a question! I'm a transfer applicant to Tisch, and I still haven't received a letter from NYU - it's almost May! When will I know if i was accepted or not?</p>
<p>Samia....you should email someone at Tisch to get the official answer as to when notification will be forthcoming. However, I do know my D has a friend who is trying to transfer to Tisch and I had asked her when she'd find out and my D had told me May 1. </p>
<p>However, I just visited the website and it says thtt transfer applicants will be notified beginning May 15. That is the official date. My daughter may have thought it was May 1 but maybe she knew it was in May. Please go by the website. Hope that helps.</p>
<p>I think they start calling the waitlist on May 1 (IF they call the waitlist) and transfers on the 15th. Good luck!</p>
<p>Thank you - I read on their website that they don't start looking at transfer application until April 1st, so my question was actually me complaining in question form. :) They sure do take their time!</p>
<p>Samia, fingers crossed for you! I know the days pass soooo slowly when you're waiting and hoping, but they DO pass. Cheers!</p>
<p>Samia - would you go to NYU if they took you as a transfer? I thought you wanted Boco regardless. Does it depend on if they let you enter as a soph/jr/whatever?</p>
<p>Rep, do you know whether there are any spots to be filled from the waitlist? It's May first... I know the past stats, and there are 50 or so on the list for this year, so we're more than wondering what the chances actually are. We have 15 more days to be nervous than Samia!
thanks!</p>
<p>This is apparently the exam schedule for the end of term exams. Since I don't see Drama listed, does that mean we won't have end of term exams?</p>
<p>Let me see if I can help a bit regarding the exams and your question above. </p>
<p>Let me start with just Tisch Drama FRESHMEN. First, all students have their studio classes. These classes tend not to have written exams, or at least let me clarify by saying that is true for the CAP21 studio classes. Perhaps Music Theory might have one but my D placed out of that class so I don't have the answer to that. But for vocal tech, acting, voice/speech, and all the dance classes, there are final evaluations called "demos". Those were done during the final week of classes last week, not during exams. Then, all freshmen in Tisch take two semesters of writing courses to do with Art and the World and The World Through Art. These courses do not have exams but have papers. The other courses they take are one semester of Intro. to Theater Production and one semester of Intro. to Theater Studies, but in whichever order the student chooses. Last semester my D had Intro. to Theater Production and if I recall, there was a final exam and paper. The exam however, was during the final week of classes and not during exam week. For Intro. To Theater Studies, there is no exam but there is a final paper. I know my D is writing it now. Classes ended yesterday but the paper is not yet due. </p>
<p>However, after freshmen year, students will be taking liberal arts courses in the College of Arts and Sciences and Theater Studies courses at Tisch, besides their studio courses. So, any courses in CAS that had an exam, would be listed on that schedule. Drama students do take those courses and are required to take a certain number of courses in the Humanities and Sciences. I can't answer why there are no Tisch Drama exams listed for courses in Theater Studies but my feeling is that the list on the link you gave only lists the ones in CAS....because I see no Tisch ones or Stern or Steinhardt subjects on that list. HOWEVER, as this is the first time I have ever viewed that schedule since my freshman daughter does not have courses with those exams, I see that the master list (the lower list on that link) that is listed by "class meeting time" includes all the class meeting times that the university offers so that if a student had a drama class, for example, that was giving a final exam during exam week, and it met every week on Mondays and Wednesdays at 9:30 AM to 10:45 AM, then the exam for the course would be held on May 3 at 8:30 AM. So, that schedule there covers every course block time. I believe such a schedule is set up at my other D's college, Brown. Every course fits certain slots in the semester schedule and then any courses in those slots give exams at a certain time during exam week (if the course HAS an exam....some do, some don't, some only have papers, some have both, etc.)</p>
<p>So, remember, studio classes have reviews that are not written as those courses are "training" and performance oriented. The theater courses outside of studio may have exams or papers and then Drama students take liberal arts courses that may have exams. Those exams would be according to the times the class meets and the corresponding exam time. Some teachers might have a different thing going, such as Intro. to Theater Production gave its exam last semester on the last day of class, before exam week began. </p>
<p>Hope that helps a little. As I only have a child who has been a freshman at NYU/Tisch, my experience is more limitted than some other participants on this forum so they might shed more light on this for you!</p>
<p>Soozie or Tisch Rep or any NYU parent,</p>
<p>What did you do about laptops? Do you know what Tisch's Requirements are? (I'm in CAP, so I don't know if they'd be different else where). I'm shopping around right now, but want a certain kind, and hope it meets the specs of what I need at college.</p>
<p>Chris</p>