NYU SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES CENTER FOR PUBLISHING & APPLIED LIBERAL ARTS CONTINUING EDUCATION PROGRAMS (PALA/CE)

Continuing Education Programs in Publishing, the Humanities, Arts, Producing, Design, Writing, and Translation.

Anne Maguire

Why Theater Majors Are Vital in the Digital Age, from the Chronicle of Higher Ed.

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In this article from The Chronicle of Higher Education, Tracey Moore writes:

“Businesses have long recognized that elements of actor training can be used to develop creativity, improve communication, and resolve conflicts. Many corporate consultants have bachelor’s degrees in acting and make a good living teaching improvisation, role play, and collaborative problem-solving to M.B.A.s. Yet universities with theater departments have failed to recognize that they have this resource in their own backyards”

Full article:

http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Theater-Majors-Are-Vital/235925

photo credit: Michael Morgenstern for the Chronicle

NYU SPS is offering the following courses this summer: 

Drama Bootcamp

Writing the One-Person Show

Writing a Musical

The Business of Broadway

Shakespearean Controversies

Sharpening Your Presentation & Speech Skills

Acting and Improvisation

Acting Techniques

The Hunt (Denmark)- April 18th, 6pm

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the_hunt_jagten_uk_dvd__140207183544On Monday, April 18 at 6pm*, CALA will screen The Hunt, a Danish movie directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Mads Mikkelson who is currently playing Hannibal Lecter on NBC’s hit show Hannibal.

The Hunt is a dark and complicated movie – evocative of most Danish TV productions over the past 10 years. Forbrydelsen, Borgen, and Bron/Broen were all made by Denmark’s public-service broadcaster, DR (http://www.dr.dk/) which was established by an act of parliament in 1926. For American TV audiences Forbrydelsen thekilling(the crime) transformed into the critically acclaimed series The Killing; Bron/Broen into The Bridge. Borgen, a political drama starring Sidse Babett Knudsen as Birgitte Nyborg, the country’s first female prime minister, was so good it was compared to Aaron Sorkin’s The West Wing by US critics – tak but no tak!

Netflix is currently streaming two seasons of Dicte which is about a crime reporter who, after divorce, returns to her hometown and immediately gets into trouble with the law. dictesesonMy favorite criticisms of the show were the complaints that most of the actors’ Copenhagen accents were not authentic for a show set in Aarhus. Perhaps Dorte Tulet, who teaches Danish at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts and who will be the moderator on April 18, will have a few moments to discuss some of Denmark’s wonderful television too. More shows to keep an eye out for are Klovn, Arvingerne, and Rita.

*The screening takes place at the National Opera Center, 330 7th Avenue, New York, NY.  RSVP here

by Anne Maguire

Soledad Bario and Noche Flamenca, by Susan Hartman in the NYTimes

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susan_hartman_pict1In her recent New York Times‘s feature, CALA Adjunct Associate Professor Susan Hartman (left) explores the life and career of an astonishing dancer Soledad Bario, and Noche Flamenca,the flamenco company she operates with her husband in New York City.
Soledad Bario is performing at Joe’s Pub March 21-29th. You can see short videos of Soledad Bario and Noche Flamenca here.
Susan Hartman is teaching 2 courses at CALA this summer, Creative Nonfiction Writing and the Art of the Photo Essay