New York State School of Art (NYSSSA) is a series of summer housing programs for New York State high school students. It provides intensive pre-professional training with internationally acclaimed artists and artistic companies. This is open to all qualified New York State high school students through auditions. Seven component schools offer training in ballet-specific disciplines, choir studies, dance, media art, orchestral studies, theater and visual arts.
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School
Ballet
Students are housed at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, close to the National Museum of Dance and the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, which hosts New York City Ballet over the summer. The program is under the direction of the internationally acclaimed NYCB Principal Jenifer Ringer. Students work every day with NYCB members and attend all company performances at night. The School of Ballet also presents lectures on dance and career opportunities led by staff and guest artists from around the world. Students receive intensive instruction in ballet, pointe, character, jazz, variation, and pas de deux. The dancers also participate in the physical therapy program.
Choir study
The School of Choir Studies takes place in SUNY Fredonia, where students are led in daily choirs and personal voice training, and are given lessons in musical theater, opera, small ensemble, and sound recitals. Students perform at the Roche Recital Hall at Mason Hall in SUNY Fredonia, as well as the Amphitheater at the nearby Chautauqua Institute. Classes are led by highly skilled staff of professional music instructors from all over the US. Students are also encouraged to enjoy concerts, operas, and many other social events planned by staff at NYSSSA.
Dance
The School of Dance took place at Skidmore College during the second half of the summer, after the Ballet program was completed. The instruction takes place at the dance studios of the National Museum of Dance and the Skidmore Dance Theater. Classroom provides instruction in modern dance techniques, composition, music for dancing, career possibilities, treasury and performance. In addition to staff and faculty, guest artists attend many nights of the week. Workshop performances are also offered to the students, as well as trips to the National Dance Museum and the Saratoga Center for the Performing Arts.
Media art
The School of Media Arts took place at SUNY Oswego, in Oswego, New York for four weeks in July. The program includes classes in video, filmmaking, photography, computer graphic arts, and new media, with courses providing an overview of craft basics, aesthetic overviews, and surveys of contemporary works, trends, and ideas, students the opportunity to use professional equipment and facilities. Students work on a number of projects, either individually or collaboratively, over a four-week program. While the curriculum emphasizes creative production, it is not exclusively goal-oriented. Explorations, experiments, and inventions are emphasized in every project. The program culminates with the latest performances and film screenings.
Orchestral Study
The School of Orchestral Studies takes place at Skidmore College, and is sponsored by the New York State School Music Association, the Saratoga Center for the Performing Arts, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Students have the ability to take seminars in topics such as music, free improvisation, and exercise techniques. In addition to the full orchestra, rope orchestra and wind ensembles, as well as other small ensembles, are available for students to perform. During the program students participate in a number of performances, including performances at Empire Plaza. in front of the state capital and at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. This repertoire program is structured in conjunction with the summer repertoire of the Philadelphia Orchestra and many of the smaller ensembles give concerts prior to the SPAC performances of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In addition, students have weekly training sessions with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Theater
The School of Theater lasts for 4 weeks during July at SUNY Delhi. Students are given daily courses in improvisation, movement, sound, and study scenes. Guest artists and artists also provide master classes, readings, and workshops in various fields, such as stage battles, comedy and improvisation, masks, drama writing, and directing. The students were also taken on a field trip to New York City to watch the drama show outside and on Broadway. In addition to a strict course load, students write and play live, as well as do the work of student friends.
The School of Theater is an intensive summer conservatory program. Students take six hours of rigorous classes daily and attend a 3 hour evening workshop, along with reading and exit assignments from homework. Most of the sound and movement studies are rooted in Alexander's techniques. The situation study curriculum leads an hour and a half of the Meisner engineering class that digs into the repetition process, ultimately applying the activities, circumstances given, and ultimately the work of the scene. The improvisation class comes from the teachings of Konstantin Stanislavski and the work of Michael Chekhov. Students are asked to read Stanislavski's An Actor Prepares , and William Esper The Actor's Art and Craft .
Admission to the School of Theater is with a competitive audition. 32 students were selected to participate. Auditions consist of two contrasting monologues and interviews.
Visual art
The School of the Arts takes place at SUNY Fredonia during July, where students work in the studio by drawing, painting, graphic art, sculpture, mixed media, images, and interdisciplinary art under the direction of renowned artists/educators. Related activities include drawing and painting of living models, trips to farms and lakes in the area, and experience with art processes that include welding, casting, direct engraving, modeling human-sized objects in clay, and experimenting with various graphic arts techniques. Groups of critics and discussion of student work provide feedback throughout the program.
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History
The New York State School of Art was founded in 1971, under the Governor of Nelson A. Rockefeller, opened with the Orcestra Studies program. In 1976, the School expanded with the addition of Ballet programs, Choirs, Theater, Media Art, and Fine Arts. NYSSSA expanded further in 1988 with the Dance and Jazz program.
Apps
Placement in schools is provided to New York State residents who meet selection criteria. If any openings are left after this selection, they may be filled by overseas students who meet additional criteria. Students must be enrolled in grades 8 to 12 and students must audition for the NYSSSA School they wish to attend. This audition is completed personally on regional audition sites, through portfolio reviews, or in certain cases, through video or audiotape review. Tuition for schools is $ 2,100 which includes, space, boards and classes and artistic events for a four-week residential program. State funds make this contribution much lower than the actual program cost. Students are selected for NYSSSA schools regardless of their financial needs and a tuition assistance form is sent to each student who is offered an acceptance or alternate status for each program. NYSSSA provides financial assistance based on individual needs, but is limited only to New Yorkers. Auditions are held across the state.
Famous Alumni
o David Heiss (Orchestra '71) - Mobile Players with Metropolitan Opera since 1982, Mobile Leader with New York Pops since 1989.
o Jace Alexander (Theater 1980) - Television director ( Rescue Me , Burn Notice , Law & Order )
o Philip Seymour Hoffman (Theater '84) - Oscar winning actor ( Capote ), nominated as Best Supporting Actor ( War of Charlie Wilson ), and a successful actor and stage director.
o And Futterman (Theater '84) - Experienced actor ( The Birdcage , A Mighty Heart , TV Assessing Amy ) and was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay ( Capote ).
o Bennett Miller (Theater '84) - Movie director ( The Cruise , Moneyball , Foxcatcher ), nominated as Best Director ( Capote ).
David Devlin (Media Arts '86) - Lighting Director ( The Lost World: Jurassic Park , Amistad , Saving Private Ryan , Psiko , Artificial Intelligence AI , Minority Report , Capture Me If You Can , The Terminal, War of the Worlds, Shine a Light, Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull Kingdom )
o Julianne Jordan (Orchestra '86) - Music Supervisor ( TMNT , Mr & Mrs Smith , Bourne Identity , Go )
o Paris Wilcox (Ballet 1987, '88, '89) - Main dancer with Kansas City Ballet.
o Danielle Huben (Coral Studies '90) - Conducted as Rapunzel in 2002 Broadway awakening Into the Woods
o Curt Markham (Media Arts '90) - Director of the Rochester International Film Festival and digital filmmaker.
o Vanessa Carlton (Ballet '92) - Pop singers; the hit included a single Grammy nomination "A Thousand Miles."
o Graham Goddard (Visual Art '95) - Contemporary artists; exhibits include the Skirball Museum and the California African American Museum.
o Jon-Erik Goldberg (Ballet '93, '94, '95, '96) - Players for national tour Mamma Mia! and Cats .
o Jeremy Cushman (orkestra '08) - famous soloist violin, serving as a concertmaster for class 2008.
See also
- Empire State Youth Orchestra
- School music
- National Conference of Governor's Schools
References
External links
- NYSSSA Website
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