OPMUS 601-602 — Acting for Singers

2 credits per semseter
Full Year
Mary Birnbaum

Class will focus on developing a dramatic toolkit for singers, including an acting vocabulary for text analysis and scene study, physical movement and connection to repertoire, audition practice, and partner work. Working to achieve a personal process (or “technique”) for acting—one which can coexist with a developing technique for singing— students will meet most weeks in group acting class taught by the MM/GD Dramatic Advisor. Individual and group dramatic coachings are scheduled outside of class time as a continuation of the weekly group acting class.