Studio training contiuum: Conservatory? not? and everything in between

[fishbowlfreshman]

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At least a second semester sophomore at UNCSA would spend about 1 hour and 45 minutes more in studio than my daughter just did at Tisch." Now Tisch students probably need that 1 hour and 45 minutes to walk to class with studio space and housing from SoHo to Union Square (and even Pearl Studios in midtown for upper classmen). So thank goodness for that 1:45!

Do you mean second semester freshman year at Tisch that came to 19.5 in your D’s studio or did I miss you listing sophomore studio hours? I thought those remained somewhat constant through the first two years. Or did you mean total hours??? Those 23.5 weekly studio hours for freshmen and 32.5 for second years at UNCSA I calculated don’t include the film seminar or rehearsal time. It’s NFL opening day and I just got back from the pub with a couple of pints in me, so sorry if I’m missing something. </p>

<p>But yeah … I have heard of Tisch students supplementing their regular studio training with electives in things like masks, stage combat, dialects and audition technique once they got their gen eds done. Another thing that makes them such an enigma to classify and an exception in almost any discussion is that there is an apparent disparity in class hours between the different studios themselves. Maybe something has changed since 2010, but there was some discussion about that back then between a Tischie and a kid who’d done like I suggested and dug into the Course Catalogues and class schedulers … <a href=“NYU Tisch Studio Class Hours - Theater/Drama Majors - College Confidential Forums”>NYU Tisch Studio Class Hours - Theater/Drama Majors - College Confidential Forums; </p>

<p>Another big gray area in calculating this for a lot of schools is whether or not to include rehearsal time. At some schools like Juilliard, Purchase and UNCSA, casting is guaranteed, roles are assigned and it very much counts and is graded as an extension of studio hours. In fact, that’s pretty much all they do by senior year other than seminars with industry professionals, “physical conditioning” and whatnot. Then at other schools, casting is by audition, there are no guarantees and it’s more of a bonus than a graded requirement. It was like that at the first school I attended and I wrote a little about what that can come to mean in this old thread … <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/745268-schools-allow-freshman-audition-4.html#post8490221[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/musical-theater-major/745268-schools-allow-freshman-audition-4.html#post8490221&lt;/a&gt; Not completely on-topic, but that was actually part of the unhappy “fishbowl” I found myself immersed in freshman year before I transferred home to my State U and then on to conservatory after going through all this mess a second time that has me still posting on a college board years later. :)</p>