Encore Core Courses  

Training: Connecting to Your Partner and the Text. Working to personalize the words on the page with spontaneous and truthful use of self in imaginary circumstances, develop trust in moment-to-moment reactions with your partner within complex dramatic material.

Coursework: Advanced exercises for relaxation, concentration and sensitivity to fellow actors, as well as internal and external stimuli to achieve focus and involvement, leading to dramatic analysis, improvisation and scene study.

Training: Explore and expand the actor’s working knowledge of how the voice optimally functions under the rigorous demands of professional performance.

Coursework: Advanced exercises for voice production are combined with practical application using text/monologues. This work may include dialects.

Training: Explore truthful storytelling through song.

Coursework: Actors learn how to personalize a lyric, bringing a story to life through song. The goal is to synthesize healthy and efficient vocal technique and truthful use of self in imaginary circumstances in musical work.

Training: Advanced development and release of the actor’s physical instrument.

Coursework: Master techniques are used to unlock imaginative impulses, enhance mind and body coordination and control, allowing the more advanced actor to utilize the most efficient use of the body in truthful moment-to-moment work.

Training: Creating new work with the ENCORE ensemble of actors.

Coursework: Actors work on a collaborative dramatic project with a professional director in the field. This additional performance opportunity allows Encore actors to experience working in an ensemble of their peers. The culminating project is uniquely designed each year, and on each campus, to highlight and showcase the distinctive abilities of the actors participating in the program.