<p>Do students attending performance art high schools, learn acting techiques such as Meisner/ Strasbeg, etc.? If so, would they be bored the first year of a BFA program? I have a d who wants to attend and it seems like it could be an overlap with college.</p>
<p>i have friends who go to arts HS’s and seem to have acting classes that do explore these techniques more in depth than the classes that are offered at my school, so yes. not speaking from experience, but my impression is that BFA’s are so demanding (especially time-wise) that she won’t be “bored.” you never completely master any acting technique- even if she comes to a BFA already knowing the basics, she’ll be learning from the different approach of the teacher, the kids around her, the environment itself… but in any case, if she arrives feeling that she knows everything already, it might be “boring” simply because of that.</p>
<p>My D attends an arts high school and the kids from the Actor Training Program there who go on to BFA in acting programs at colleges/universities and conservatories do sometimes report that the first year is a repeat, largely, of what they have learned in high school. In fact, over the holiday break I had a nice conversation about this topic with a wonderful and talented young man who is a freshmen at a very prestigious acting conservatory program often mentioned on this board, and he said that the first semester of freshmen year closely resembled what he had done the first semester freshmen year in high school. However, as deenierah noted above, one can never completely master these approaches, so he dug right in with enthusiasm. In addition, he recognizes that some of his classmates did not study at arts high school programs, so this is all new to them, and he is facing this as an opportunity to delve even deeper into different approaches and how they work best for him. I also agree with deenierah that going in with the attitude “I already have done this and already know it” is dangerous in and of itself in that it can breed boredom and arrogance.</p>