Bada Tv Drama
Kerrie Gingrich
Students take acting classes, master classes, and workshops with leading artists from the British stage, complemented by individual tutorials with teachers. A faculty from Britain's foremost drama schools teaches technical classes in voice, movement, and stage fighting.
This is a practical acting course designed to give students a dynamic, sensitive, and physical approach to acting in High Comedy, enabling them to play with increased confidence, openness, precision, understanding, and skill. Students will work as a group on exercises which will lay a foundation for the detailed scene study work of these complex and witty texts. The course will give each individual the opportunity to put into practice the core principles of working on High Comedy from Restoration through to Wilde, Coward, and Orton in a highly supportive, collaborative atmosphere, and gain a strong understanding of what makes this material so rewarding and exhilarating to act. No formal written work. (2 credits)
Voice
Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of Voice Studies: body, breath, voice, articulation and the connection of voice & text. There will be a focus on: physical awareness and release through alignment and centring; breath control, explored in the opening up and freeing of the voice; the development of tone, range, resonance and expression; effective articulation.
Students will learn how to apply this knowledge in the delivery and interpretation of text for all performance platforms. The course will be taught through group, pairs and individual exercises with space for individual coaching and feedback on prepared texts. As students gain in vocal confidence through their practical work and its regular application a deepening connection to and ownership of language in performance will emerge and grow. (1 credit)
Movement
By using movement work, group games, imaginative, and observational work as tools to build the ensemble, students are encouraged to be free and strengthen their bodies. This provides the student actors with the ability to transform physically into the different characters they play. This class also enables the students to free their voice and unlock physical habits and tensions which may inhibit their bodies and therefore their ability to be free. (1 credit)
Stage Fighting: Hand to Hand Combat
Led by one of the leading fight directors in Europe, this course trains students in realistic stage combat with emphasis on safety, control, period styles, and technical virtuosity. The students will learn and be able to perform a large body of practical fight techniques and will gain a working comprehension of all the relevant safety principles and be able to apply them in practical situations. Students will also gain an understanding of their personal areas of strength and areas requiring further focus with a clearer judgment of their own personal rehearsal arc with regards to the illusion of violence in performance. Students will also have a more acute understanding of how to integrate character into action and action into text by the end of the course. (1 credit)
Theatre History
This course explores the representation of individuality and diversity in theatre by reading a range of play-texts from different periods. In the classes each text will be explored both in its unique value and by considering links to cultural practices, social institutions, historical periods, and the representation of character. Asking ourselves how far theatre and performance offer a response to changing social and cultural issues of gender, race and class identity and how far different generations renegotiate such responses. Each week the course will offer a main text and an extract from a parallel text as well as critical reading to support class discussion. (2 credits)
Acting in Performance
For this course, students will rehearse and perform productions of major British and European classical works. After eight weeks of classes, students are split into companies and begin the five week rehearsal period. Each company is led by a British theatre director. This culminates in a final performance at a working London theatre. During the rehearsal period there are daily warm ups. Voice and Movement faculty also come into rehearsals and support the students' process thus helping to further develop the core foundations for the modern actor. (3 credits)
Weekly masterclasses with leading UK theatre practitioners, including actors, directors, and designers from the British and American stage. Recent masterclass instructors include: Jenny Beavan, Brian Cox, Bob Crowley, Brandon Victor Dixon, Julian Glover, Henry Goodman, Greg Hicks, Fiona Shaw, Owen Teale, Deborah Warner, Sam West, and Elliot Barnes-Worrall.
The Sarah Lawrence College London Theatre Program is highly selective, and the number of students is limited. It is open to juniors and seniors enrolled at any accredited American college or university.
Please contact Jayne Napier in the Office of Global Education at jna...@sarahlawrence.edu to schedule an appointment. Each audition will be no longer than 10 minutes. At the end of your audition, there will be time for a chat with Ben Naylor, Dean of BADA.
Sarah Lawrence College offers limited financial assistance to guest students on this program. Students should consult their home school's financial aid office for guidance on other financial aid resources.
We welcome applicants at the undergraduate and graduate level as well as working actors who are not enrolled in educational programmes. Actors aged 18 must have completed one year of college or have graduated high school a year prior to the start of the programme to be eligible to apply for the coming summer. Actors aged 18 who are currently in high school are encouraged to apply for our Midsummer Conservatory Program.
This programme runs every summer, and is delivered in association with the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. BADA does not provide college credit for this programme, nor are transcripts available.
You will receive an admissions decision by early April. Please be patient; you will absolutely hear from us one way or another. Admissions decisions are distributed via the Get Acceptd messaging system.
Weekends
On Saturday of the middle weekend of the course, the cohort will take a trip to a production at either the National Theatre in London or the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon (the choice will be made dependent on repertory).
The other two Saturdays during the course are yours to enjoy; and participants may use this time to explore historic Oxford, or take a daytrip to London to see a show, visit museums and galleries or just to take in the city.
Grad School Forum
Participants currently enrolled in graduate school will be invited share their experience on a volunteer panel for fellow Midsummer in Oxford participants who are interested in learning about the graduate school experience.
Open Day & Farewell Party
On the final Saturday, Open Day involves informal presentations of scene work to the whole cohort at a variety of locations around the college. Families of participants and other guests are welcome to attend Open Day. There will be Farewell Party and Barbecue afterwards for program participants.
Please note that BADA is an organisation which contracts with Magdalen College for the use of its facilities for the duration of the Midsummer in Oxford Program, but which has no formal connection with The University of Oxford.
Due to the rigorous nature of the course and the high bar set each year by participants, the Midsummer in Oxford Program is not suitable for new actors or those just beginning to focus on their craft. We encourage new practitioners to seek formal theatrical training before applying to the program.
Midsummer in Oxford Refund Policy
A deposit of $500 is required on acceptance, which is non-refundable. Fees paid in excess of the $500 deposit are refundable if BADA is notified prior to the final payment deadline. No fees are refundable after this date.
If the programme is canceled by BADA due to circumstances beyond our control, all fees, with the exception of the application fee, will be refunded. BADA accepts no responsibility for associated expenses such as flights or pre-booked ground transportation.
Before applying to the program, please note the fees and consider how you will fund the experience should you be accepted. Only a very small number of applicants accepted to the summer 2024 programs will be chosen to receive scholarship funding from BADA. Awards could be a small as a few hundred dollars. Most accepted applicants will need to provide their own funding.
If you would like to discuss the possibilities of receiving scholarship funding prior to submitting an application, please feel free to contact our Summer Programs Admissions Coordinator, Jennifer Rockwood: jroc...@bada.org.uk.
The London Theatre Program (LTP) is sponsored by Sarah Lawrence College and the British American Drama Academy. The program is intended for majors in drama and theatre arts. You take courses in acting, theatre history and criticism. You will take part in master classes and workshops. You will live in apartments with other students from the program.
The program is offered either as a single semester program or full year program. You will take acting classes, master classes and workshops with leading artists from the British stage. You will also take courses in theatre history and criticism. Coursework is complemented by individual tutorials where students will work one-on-one with instructors. Individual course descriptions and point values are available on the program website.
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