Performance Emphasis
The Performance Emphasis allows students the opportunity to increase their skills as performers while encouraging growth in a variety of areas. With an emphasis on creativity and collaborative process, Performance students are guided to achieve freedom in voice, body, mind and emotions, and to utilize that freedom to inhabit a role. Students are exposed to a number of acting techniques and theories, including methodologies drawn from the Stanislavski approach (Meisner, Strasberg, Adler), Suzuki techniques and training in both Shakespearean and Commedia styles. Voice and movement work is drawn from the Linklater approach, the Feldenkrais Method, and additional exploration of awareness and creativity. Options exist for experience in Directing, Playwriting, Devised Theatre and Musical Theatre.
Required coursework includes:
| Movement for the Actor | |
| Vocal Production for the Actor | |
| Acting | |
| Acting Studio | |
| Acting Styles | |
| Advanced Voice and Movement |
In addition to main stage productions in the Strayer-Wood and Bertha Martin Theatres, other performance opportunities can be found with the UNI Student Theatre Association.
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