All freshmen Performance students are admitted into the Freshman Core Performance Curriculum. The Performance Core provides a foundation for all future study in either the Acting or Theatre Arts majors. Through improvisation, scene study, ensemble work, and exercise, students begin the journey toward the free, integrated, and transformable expression of the voice, body, intellect, imagination, and emotion.
Performance Core classes include:
The Freshman Core is designed to provide an appropriate context for faculty evaluations of each student's strengths, interests, and potential for success in the upper years of training. At the end of the freshman year, each student declares a major in either Acting or Theatre Arts. This decision is reviewed by all members of the Theatre Performance faculty before a student is officially enrolled in his or her major.