Summer Session II: June 28-August 6

Producing in the Digital Revolution
This is an interdisciplinary course, for film and non-film students. It is designed for aspiring film producers who want to better understand the industry and the historical and creative significance of digital cinema as well as anyone interested in exploring the brave new digital world. Some of the films discussed will include Miguel Arteta’s Chuck and Buck, Lars Von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark, Brian  De Palma’s Redacted, Steven Soderbergh’s Bubble, David Fincher’s Zodiac, Rebecca Miller’s Personal Velocity, among others.

View the full summer course list for Open Arts.

Armed Robbers & Smoking Guns: Crime Cinema
As a genre of popular film, crime films play a significant role in the history of both French and American cinematic traditions. This course examines both the American crime film and the French policier – with specific focus on their gangster and heist variants – as cinematic mediations of their respective national cultures and as cultural markers of the sociological and political values of each nation.

View the full summer course list for Cinema Studies.

Playwriting II
The course covers the writing and completion of a full-length play. Required work in the class includes extensive scene work.

Screenwriting II
The course covers the writing and completion of a full-length screenplay. Students must come to the first class with an outline or treatment for a full-length film.

View the full summer course list for Dramatic Writing.

Theatre in NY: Cracks in the City
This course explores the ecology of artistic creation in the “downtown” New York scene. New venues, performance forms and modes of expression and distribution are attracting audiences to unconventional experiences in “the cracks of the city.”

Studies in Shakespeare: Shakespeare on Film
The study of Shakespeare on film offers an opportunity for observing actual historical artifacts (the films) in relation to the texts on which they were based (the plays). By engaging directly with performed versions of the scripts, it is possible to more fully consider how changing social, cultural, political and technological mores affect the performance and interpretation of seemingly fixed texts that are often the object of deep cultural reverence and a purist devotion to the “original.”

Stonestreet Screen Acting I Workshop
This course covers film and television training from the audition process to performance and production. All areas of film and television acting are covered: film (dramatic and comedic), dramatic series, sit-coms, soap operas, commercials, as well as vocal and physical work as it applies to film acting.

CAP 21: Summer Musical Theatre
This studio course provides young artists with the extensive technique and experience required by the professional field of musical theatre performance. This comprehensive six-week program trains you to become a balanced performer, powerful in all disciplines of musical theatre performance.

View the full summer course list for Drama.

Open Arts instructor Patricia Beaman will perform a neo-Baroque dance at Solo Dance: Perspectives from South India and Beyond. Distinguished scholars and dance practitioners will gather at this symposium in Ontario, Canada to discuss the history and future of solo dance from South India.

Ms. Beaman will also participate in a roundtable discussion with  dance legends from Canada and India.

The symposium takes place on June 4 and 5 at the Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre, Royal Ontario Museum. It is presented by Toronto-based company inDANCE and is produced in collaboration with the Royal Ontario Museum’s Friends of South Asia.

Patricia Beaman teaches History of Dance in the Tisch Open Arts program during the spring semester.