May 16, 2012
by Mariangela Lardaro
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Tisch School of the Arts alumni and community members were recently nominated for the 2012 Drama League Awards and the 2012 Drama Desk Awards.
The 78th Annual Drama League Awards will be held on Friday, May 18. Click here for the Tisch nominees.
The 57th Annual Drama Desk Awards will be held on Sunday, June 3. Click here for the Tisch nominees.
May 16, 2012
by Mariangela Lardaro
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The Empire State Building was illuminated in violet and white last night in honor of the graduates. Photo credit: NYU University Life
NYU is celebrating its 180th Commencement at Yankee Stadium today. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the 111th Supreme Court justice, will address the graduates and guests.
Tisch Special Programs congratulates all NYU graduates…and a very special “salute” to the Tisch graduates!
May 14, 2012
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Get an inside look at the Tisch School of the Arts Open Arts Studio final presentations. You can learn more about the studio at specialprograms.tisch.nyu.edu/object/ssatacting.html
May 11, 2012
by Mariangela Lardaro
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The Hollywood Reporter polled Casting Society of America members and theatre insiders for which schools they consider to be the best training grounds for aspiring actors. Tisch School of the Arts is one of the top 25 schools selected! Read the article.
Visit the websites for more information about the Institute of Performing Arts Undergraduate Drama and Graduate Acting programs.
The Department of Drama also offers summer courses.
May 10, 2012
by Mariangela Lardaro
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Brane Zivkovic is an award winning film, television, and theatre composer, internationally recognized recording artist and producer, technologist, and educator. He is the recipient of numerous awards in the film and recording industries, including the Golden Arena Award (as Film Composer of the Year in 1984), and platinum and gold record awards in the former Yugoslavia. Read full bio.
His course, Music for Film and TV (FMTV-UT 1008), is open to all NYU and visiting students this summer. In this three-credit course, you will examine the artistic, aesthetic, and technical aspects in composing and creating music for film and television. It provides an inside look into the relationship between composer, director, and music editor, exploring music as a creative tool. Through lectures, analysis, demonstrations, and presentations by guest speakers, you will learn and deal with the specifics of the film composer’s job, duties, and responsibilities, including the basics of film scoring.
May 10, 2012
by Mariangela Lardaro
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Tisch alumni and Dean’s Council Members have been nominated for the Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, also known as the Tony Awards®. The 2012 Award ceremony airs on June 10th on CBS.
May 8, 2012
by Mariangela Lardaro
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A morning section of Producing Essentials (OART-UT.1006, Section 001) has been added this summer. NYU and non-NYU students can enroll for the course taking place July 2-August 10, Tuesday and Thursday 9:30 a.m.-12:10 p.m. Learn the dynamics of producing as an art form and business profession in this four-credit course. Get registration and more course information.
The instructor is Jack Lechner, adjunct professor in the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television. He has been involved in the production and development of dozens of movies, including The Crying Game, Good Will Hunting, and The Full Monty. Get the full bio.
May 7, 2012
by Mariangela Lardaro
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Today is the last day of classes. Student in the Open Arts Studio gave their live presentation of movement pieces and scenes for invited guests.
A video of the live studio presentation will be posted online soon!
May 3, 2012
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Are you an intermediate or advanced dance student? Do you want to focus on ballet and contemporary dance? Register for the Summer Residency Festival and you can train with three or all six visiting dance companies: David Dorfman Dance, Kate Weare Company, Nicholas Leichter Dance, Gina Gibney Dance, Ellis Wood Dance, and Ronald K. Brown/Evidence. The companies have performed extensively not only in New York City but also around the world.
Learn more about the six dance companies.
Nicholas Leichter Dance
The dance festival is offered for undergraduate credit and for noncredit. Each visiting company presents a lecture/demonstration on the first day of its residency and teaches a week of contemporary technique and, in the afternoons, repertory. You ‘ll also have the opportunity to observe open rehearsals, showings of works-in-progress, and public performances.
May 1, 2012
by Mariangela Lardaro
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The Paley Center for New Media hosts Estela Bravo on May 9 as she screens footage from her work, offering new insights into Fidel Castro. Notable personalities who tell surprising stories about this man inclusw Ted Turner, Harry Belafonte, Jesse Jackson, Hank Aaron, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Photo courtesy of The Paley Center for New Media
Bravo will also show clips from her films that have dealt with Cuban-American relations, including Miami-Havana, which explores the human dimensions of the long separation of Cuban families; The Cuban Excludables, about Cuban detainees held in U.S. prisons; and Operation Peter Pan: Flying Back to Cuba, her moving portrait of five adults returning to their homeland after being sent to this country in the early sixties—at the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
Bravo meets with students in the Tisch Cuba program at the on-site orientation in Havana every semester, and screens her film Fidel.