program of studies
Beit Zvi offers its students an intensive three-year program, at the conclusion of which one receives a certificate of graduation.
Special courses are offered in a wide range of areas including dance, singing, pantomime, commedia-del-arte, musical theatre, theatre games, classics, theatre history, criticism, and script analysis. Evenings are devoted to the preparation of rehearsal exercises which are presented to the school community at the end of each term.
Shmuel Vilozni ("Look back in anger" 1985) Anat Waxman, Dov Navon ("Born Yesterday" 1983) Itay Tiran, Daniel Efrat ("Hair" 2003) The third year operates as a Theatre in which an average of 30 productions is mounted for performance before paying audiences. Ticket prices are nominal, and each production runs as a limited run of 14 times.
The First Year a. Acting Classes (Stanislavsky Uta Hagen) The seven questions; partner exercise; properties exercise; place and time; the psychological action; the physical action; internal and external obstacles; sense memory; emotional memory; improvisation. b. Rehearsal Exercises and Monologue preparation. Rehearsal productions in the three trimesters are spent respectively on American, Russian and European plays. Concurrently throughout the year, students prepare monologues from Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Ibsen and Shakespeare. The psychology of movement (Laban System);awareness of the body and its function; physical relaxation; the body as instrument of actor expression; physical concentration, flexibility; contact and physical improvisation; beginning ballet. Vocal production; speech and diction; poetry reading. Additional disciplines: Commedia-Del-Arte; Clowning; Acrobatics; Theatre Games; History of Cinema. The Second Year After mastering the basics incumbent in the first year of studies, the second year curriculum grows in breadth and depth, with further specialization in the areas of acting, voice and movement. Attendance at rehearsal exercises is enlarged to include the entire school community of students and teachers, while technical skills undergo further polishing. Courses are given in acting, voice for the actor (Linklater method), and styles in dance, stage fighting, pantomime, tap dancing, stand-up comedy, theatre games, dramatic reading, and theatre history and script analysis. In addition, students receive individual instruction in singing,' Alexander technique, speech therapy and text analysis. Rehearsal exercises ate devoted to the works of Shakespeare, the Greeks, Moliere, Brecht and the American musical. Monologues are also prepared from French and Greek classics, as well as Shakespeare. Concurrent to the regular program of studies, attention is given to the cultural enrichment of the students. Lectures and meeting are arranged with a wide range of working professionals, including stage and film directors from The third year operates as a small theatre with an average of 20 productions being mounted in a ten-month season. Rehearsals are held during the daytime hours, with a portion of the time being devoted to individual and group classes in voice and movement, as well as meetings with invited theatre artists. The directors for third year productions are enlisted from the top ranks of the Israeli professional theatre, and from visiting foreign directors. Many of the directors come from outside the regular faculty, as well as British, American and European guest directors (working through translators), further preparing the students for integration into the profession, as well as acquainting the directors with young talent.
First year studies are divided into four categories:
1. Theatre History and Script Analysis.
2. Acting Classes and Rehearsal Exercises.
3. Movement and Dance.
4. Voice.
The Third Year
The third year operates as a Theatre in which an average of 30 productions is mounted for performance before paying audiences. Ticket prices are nominal, and each production runs as a limited run of 14 times.
The First Year
First year studies are divided into four categories:
1. Theatre History and Script Analysis.
2. Acting Classes and Rehearsal Exercises.
a. Acting Classes (Stanislavsky Uta Hagen) The seven questions; partner exercise; properties exercise; place and time; the psychological action; the physical action; internal and external obstacles; sense memory; emotional memory; improvisation.
b. Rehearsal Exercises and Monologue preparation.
Rehearsal productions in the three trimesters are spent respectively on American, Russian and European plays. Concurrently throughout the year, students prepare monologues from Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Ibsen and Shakespeare.
3. Movement and Dance.
The psychology of movement (Laban System);awareness of the body and its function; physical relaxation; the body as instrument of actor expression; physical concentration, flexibility; contact and physical improvisation; beginning ballet.
4. Voice.
Vocal production; speech and diction; poetry reading.
Additional disciplines: Commedia-Del-Arte; Clowning; Acrobatics; Theatre Games; History of Cinema.
The Second Year
After mastering the basics incumbent in the first year of studies, the second year curriculum grows in breadth and depth, with further specialization in the areas of acting, voice and movement. Attendance at rehearsal exercises is enlarged to include the entire school community of students and teachers, while technical skills undergo further polishing. Courses are given in acting, voice for the actor (Linklater method), and styles in dance, stage fighting, pantomime, tap dancing, stand-up comedy, theatre games, dramatic reading, and theatre history and script analysis. In addition, students receive individual instruction in singing,' Alexander technique, speech therapy and text analysis. Rehearsal exercises ate devoted to the works of Shakespeare, the Greeks, Moliere, Brecht and the American musical. Monologues are also prepared from French and Greek classics, as well as Shakespeare. Concurrent to the regular program of studies, attention is given to the cultural enrichment of the students. Lectures and meeting are arranged with a wide range of working professionals, including stage and film directors from
The Third Year
The third year operates as a small theatre with an average of 20 productions being mounted in a ten-month season.
Rehearsals are held during the daytime hours, with a portion of the time being devoted to individual and group classes in voice and movement, as well as meetings with invited theatre artists. The directors for third year productions are enlisted from the top ranks of the Israeli professional theatre, and from visiting foreign directors. Many of the directors come from outside the regular faculty, as well as British, American and European guest directors (working through translators), further preparing the students for integration into the profession, as well as acquainting the directors with young talent.
