<p>I know that Strasberg/CAP21 recently discontinued affiliation with Tisch...But I was looking at Tisch's website and Stasberg is back on there. Is Strasberg back with TIsch??? (I was recently accepted into NYU Tisch, and am just wondering in terms of studio placements...)
ALso, does anyone know when we get studio assignments? I'm dying to know!!</p>
<p>Studio assignments will probably be sent out this week via email</p>
<p>A Tisch student posted on the MT forum that Tisch is bringing Strasberg back. I didn’t realize that it was for this year.</p>
<p>They’ve got it listed now for Primary and Advanced, but it looks like in updating the website, they left off ETW from the Advanced Training, which is a mistake. ETW is still an upper-level option for continuing with the initial placement or for transferring into (by audition) for advanced.</p>
<p>I asked my son who’s in NSB and he wasn’t aware of the Strasberg thing. ETW is part of NYU. Guess time will tell which is correct and which is a mistake.</p>
<p>My daughter was placed in Strasberg…</p>
<p>here’s the info on it:
[Lee</a> Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU](<a href=“http://drama.tisch.nyu.edu/object/dr_studios_strasberg.html]Lee”>http://drama.tisch.nyu.edu/object/dr_studios_strasberg.html)</p>
<p>glassharmonica, et al…</p>
<p>I can’t help much with any insights into the current iteration of the Tisch-Strasberg studio relationship. What I can say is three years ago, DS went to the Tisch Summer High School Program, and did acting there (not MT; that was separate). There were 24 students who were at Strasberg for the program. DS was completely smitten by the studio, and the method technique. He was disappointed when, as an incoming freshman, Strasberg was not a studio option for him. I know several of the students from that last summer at Strasberg; many had indicated that they would return there “on our own” (i.e., after getting their degrees), and continue training there. DS was in that group as well. I’ve not had a chance to talk with him yet since the studio assignment news broke yesterday. I’m curious to know if Strasberg was offered as a transfer track option for advanced studio placement. I think that Strasberg, along with Stella Adler, were the first studios that NYU Tisch formed relationships with for acting (noting CAP21 was for MT). There must be some alumni who can post their Strasberg comments here on CC.</p>
<p>Tisch approached Strasberg this year about once again being a primary and advanced studio for them.</p>
<p>The BU approach is very appealing and what we have seen from their student performances gave us great confidence in BU’s commitment to really build their students abilities and confidence. Like NYU, the students there are of high intellectual caliber. I’m wondering if anyone can help us rightly divide the differences between the two, now that we know our D is assigned to Strasberg. </p>
<p>Any and all insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!</p>
<p>jbehlend, yes, Strasberg has an advanced track this year. It is a practicum with a play commissioned for it by “a newly emerging playwright.” I think it sounds fabulous!</p>
<p>Perhaps the biggest difference between Tisch/Strasberg and BU is that the Strasberg studio focuses on method acting, whereas BU has more of a “toolbox” approach to training and exposes the student to a variety of approaches.</p>
<p>I would suggest NYU Strasberg over BU. The thing about the “toolbox” approach is that is ends up being highly generalized. </p>
<p>The methods created by master acting teachers (the three main ones being Adler, Strasberg, Meisner) are designed to enhance the actor’s abilities through techniques that were very carefully developed in a specific order. While the different teachers took different approaches, they were all geniuses who revolutionized the acting world. </p>
<p>The “toolbox” approach usually ends up giving the actors a set of tricks and mechanisms that the actor might spend years fiddling with and figuring out how to use. </p>
<p>Even schools like Juilliard subscribe to a method (though it is a method of their own private creation).</p>
<p>It all spans from Constantine Stanislavski’s discoveries in the late 1800’s. He was the one who saw that actors needed a system for preparation, and created the Stanislavski System from which all these methods (and non-classical acting as we know it) come from.</p>
<p>(Also, if your child does not like the Strasberg studio in Tisch, there are many more that can be transferred into - method based or no).</p>
<p>Aside from the question of actor training, the Tisch drama program has a sizeable academic component. This suits the tastes of some students more than others. Some students want to do performance training five days a week rather than three days a week as at Tisch.</p>
<p>I must admit that in four years of reading posts on this board, this is the first time that I have ever heard anyone say that the toolbox approach is anything less than desirable. </p>
<p>I know for the fact that a lot of students are accepted at both Boston University and Tisch and choose BU, for better or worse. I don’t know how many students are accepted at both and choose Tisch, because my son is a student at BU and not at Tisch.</p>
<p>We actually toured the Strasberg Studio about ten days ago. The person who gave us the tour is a Tisch alumni. She’s very sweet (her name is Amanda) and if you call her there I am sure she will talk to you personally. She took us all over the building, explained the method and courses, and introduced us to a number of teachers, all of whom seemed friendly. Among their curriculum is ballet, t’ai chi, and Alexander. As for the academics at NYU, we were told in our info session for admitted students that the only academic (aside from theater-academics) class given to Tisch freshmen is a critical writing seminar for Tisch students (i.e., all-Tisch, and designed for students in that school, so the content of the writing is more theater-based.)</p>
<p>NYU gives the opportunity , as FMStrawberry points out, to dig deep into a acting method and then switch 2 years later and have a totally new experience. Which also includes a new environment and new teachers and classmates to learn from. That was VERY desirable to my child, so she picked NYU over BU. </p>
<p>Learning Strasberg, Adler or Meisner the first years of training makes perfect sense, then you have the option to move on to something new or experimental your 3rd and 4th year. </p>
<p>NYU must be doing something right. Every Broadway drama/comedy we have seen in the last year has had at least one cast member with a BFA from Tisch. The last play we saw had 5 cast members, 2 were from NYU with BFAs. The only school equally or more represented from what I’ve seen is Julliard or Yale MFA.</p>
<p>I think we can all agree that there are many different ways to study acting, and what makes perfect sense for one student of theater/re might not be just right for another.</p>
<p>Statistically, it makes sense that NYU would have a large number of students on Broadway, as they have an unusually large class. </p>
<p>As far as the toolbox v.s. one method training goes, it’s clearly just a matter of personal preference. I didn’t want to spend two years of my undergraduate studying a single method, and it didn’t make sense to me to spend a fortune studying at a studio I could study at independently, so I chose another school. There are obviously plenty of people who disagree with me on this, or NYU wouldn’t be able to fill up their classes.</p>
<p>Yes, of course Glassharmonica. :)</p>
<p>For those of you interested, I just read on the Strasberg website that there will be 36 Freshman in the NYU/Strasberg class next year. That is about half the size of the other studios, from what I understand. And I believe there will be no Sophomore or Junior class there either, only the Seniors and the 36 freshman! Sounds like they will be getting plenty of one on one time. So exciting!</p>