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At TU we partner with professional organizations like MTV, ABC News, Epic Theatre, Martha Graham Dance Company and Metropolitan Museum of Art in dance, drama. Our performances are all centered around great student contributions and teacher 'know-how'. Come explore our professional performances ...
    
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TU Arts ...
Do you sing in the shower? Like to harmonize with your friends?
Talent Unlimited Vocal Music students turn a fun activity into a real art, singing repertoire ranging from Bach to Billie Holiday. Students perform in one of four Choirs:. Emphasis is placed on vocal technique, text analysis, performance practices, music literacy and sight-singing. In keeping with Talent Unlimited’s mission to provide a dynamic arts education for our students, the vocal department has formed an alliance with the Western Wind, a professional vocal ensemble committed to providing training and support for our students. Individual study is encouraged through solo preparation for NYSSMA adjudication.
 
PERFORMANCE CALENDAR
2007 - 2008
Fall
October 13 Saturday Music Group -UFT Dial-a-Teacher Parent Conference
NY Sheraton Hotel – 11:30am-1:00pm
25 Thursday Open House for 8th Grade Parents – 7pm –Auditorium
27 Saturday Open House for 8th Grade Parents – 10:00am -Auditorium
November 13-15 Tues.-Thurs. Senior Rep. Drama – 3:30 pm – Black Box
16 Friday Senior Rep. Drama – 3:30 & 7:00pm – Black Box
27-29 Tues.-Thurs. Senior Rep. Drama – 3:30 pm – Black Box
30 Friday Senior Rep. Drama – 3:30 & 7:00pm – Black Box
December 6 Thursday MET LIFE Music Performance – 5-6:00pm- Met Life
10-11 Mon.-Tues. Honors Rep Drama – 3:30 pm – Black Box
12 Wednesday Honors Rep Drama – 3:30 & 7:00pm – Black Box
13 Thursday Holiday Show - 3:30 pm - Auditorium
14 Friday Holiday Show – 7:00 pm – Auditorium
18-19 Tues.-Wed. Musical – 3:30 pm - Black Box
20 Thursday Musical – 3:30 & 7:00pm – Black Box
January 8 Tuesday Music Concert – 3:30 pm – Auditorium
9 Wednesday Music Concert – 3:30 & 7:00pm - Auditorium
9- 10 Wed.–Thurs. Honors Rep. Drama – 3:30 pm – Black Box
11 Friday Honors Rep. Drama – 3:30 & 7:00pm – Black Box
16 Friday SUNY Brockport/ TU Dance Concert–7:00pm-
Auditorium
17 Saturday SUNY Brockport/TU Dance Concert – TBA -Auditorium
Spring
March 13- 14 Thurs.- Fri. Freshmen Epic Presentation
25- 27 Tue –Thurs. Senior Rep. Drama – 3:30 pm – Black Box
28 Friday Senior Rep. Drama – 3:30 & 7:00pm Black Box
April 8- 9 Tues.- Wed. Senior Rep. Drama – 3:30 pm – Black Box
10 Thursday Senior Rep. Drama – 3:30 & 7:00pm – Black Box
Dance Concert - 3:30 pm – Auditorium
11 Friday Dance Concert – 7:00 pm – Auditorium
May 6 –8 Tues.–Thurs. Honors Rep. Drama – 3:30 pm – Black Box
9 Friday Honors Rep. Drama – 3:30 & 7:00pm – Black Box
14-15 Wed.-Thurs. Musical for Middle Schools – 10:00 am – Auditorium
15 Thursday Musical – 3:30 pm – Auditorium
16 Friday Musical – 7:00 pm - Auditorium
20- 21 Tues.-Wed. Honors Rep. Drama – 3:30 pm – Black Box
22 Thursday Honors Rep. Drama – 3:30 & 7:00pm – Black Box
28 Wednesday Music Concert I - 3:30pm - Auditorium
29 Thursday Music Concert I – 7:00 pm – Auditorium
30 Friday Music Concert II – 7:00 pm - Auditorium
All performances are open to the public.
Please call for reservations at 212-737-1530 ext. 596
Performance schedule subject to change
Student Profile ...
“I love dance, and I really feel fortunate that for three periods a day I get to express myself through art.”
Monica Kelly '06
 
If you want to be part of a community that supports imagination, creative thinking, academic achievement, and the unity of ensemble, then Talent Unlimited’s Performing Arts program is the right place for you. The spirit of our performers is heard and seen in the halls of TU and celebrated on stage and in the classrooms of our performing arts. Our students learn the discipline, focus, and skills needed to succeed in the arts and the world beyond. Stimulating, informative, classes led by passionate teachers who continue to work in the arts industry, make all the arts come alive.
Performance practices begin in the freshmen year and continue through out the student’s four year training at TU. Many students participate in full length productions as early as their Sophomore year. Our conservatory based sequential arts classes enables our students to build skills that ready them for college. Add internships with MTV, Epic Theatre Center, and Ballet Hispanico along with partnerships with Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, ISO, TDF, Classic Stage Company, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, and more, and you have highly motivated students and great opportunities.
Our students are selected through the audition process to study either vocal, drama, dance, musical theatre, or instrumental music. Once selected, students begin an intensive study of their art form. Arts teachers work with students two periods a day, teaching and guiding our students in performance techniques and career exploration. Each Arts curriculum has been created to enhance and develop the necessary skills needed to meet both industry and post-secondary standards. Academic standards are all part of the arts and are integrated into all arts discipline. The following descriptions of each Art”s major adheres to State Arts Standards and the community of artist we strive to build.
  
TU Vocal Department ...
Do you sing in the shower?
Like to harmonize with your friends?
Musical Theater ... It Works ...
“It’s not the critic who counts. The credit belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena.” - Theodore Roosevelt.
The emphasis of the Musical Theatre Program is on self-motivated, experiential learning. Students learn by blocking scenes, training their vocal apparatus, and implementing improvisational movement. Musical Theater students at Talent Unlimited are transformed into real “triple threat” performers who discover through the experience provided by the Musical Theater department that there is close connection between musical theater, a uniquely American art form, and the cultural forces that have shaped and continue to shape our world. They study vocal technique, dance and acting, musical theater history and audition technique. Students perform works chosen from the repertoire of classic Broadway shows and audition for the yearly main stage production.
 
 
 
 
 
 
TU Instrumental ...
CONCERT BAND
The Talent Unlimited High School Concert Band focuses on performing a wide variety of music from popular, to jazz, to classical, as well as music from traditions outside the western world. Exploration of the cultures and time periods of the music helps the student gain further insight into the body of repertoire played in class and acquire a more sensitive approach to the overall process of music making and interpretation. Students are also given additional instruction in daily sectional rehearsals, that function in a small group setting. Opportunities are also provided for students to display their talents by conducting and performing as soloists with the group. Various performances take place in both the fall and spring terms, including semi-annual concerts, NYSSMA festivals, and other performances upon invitation.
STRING ENSEMBLE
The Talent Unlimited High School String Ensemble is a group that is devoted to performing a variety of works from the Baroque Period through the present. Exploration of the cultures and time periods of the music helps the student gain further insight into the body of repertoire played in class. The study of theory and history is continually addressed and integrated into the works played. String students also learn proper performance practices that correlate to the various musical time periods.
JAZZ BAND
The Talent Unlimited High School Jazz Band is specifically designed to perform a variety of music from standard jazz, Latin, rock, and fusion. The daily rehearsal is integrated with a thorough grounding in all areas associated with these genres including study of rhythmic and scale structures, harmonic and formal analysis and most importantly, improvisation. From this training, the students are encouraged to take an active role in making creative and musical decisions during the rehearsal stages. The students are equipped with musical skills far beyond merely reading their own individual part, and take with them a greater knowledge of all the fundamentals of music, including conducting and an opportunity to create their own compositions. Various performances take place in both the fall and spring terms, including semi-annual concerts, NYSSMA festivals and special performances outside of school.
Like many students, deciding where to go to high school was a difficult decision for Junior instrumental major Armand Rodriguez. A talented student and musician, he had many options, including a number of elite high schools, but in the end selected Talent Unlimited because it presented him with a rare opportunity in the public school system: the chance to play music and be challenged academically. “I’m taking physics and plan on taking calculus next year. I’m also considering taking a college-level English class that is offered to Talent Unlimited students at Hunter College. And, for two periods a day, I get a chance to do what I love most—play music. By playing scales every day, studying musical theory and getting the chance to perform regularly, I’m getting an opportunity I wouldn’t have in most schools.”
Student Profile Armand Rodriguez
“I wanted to go to a school that had a challenging academic program that would prepare me for college but I also wanted one that had a strong music program. Talent Unlimited offers both.” Armand Rodriguez '06
 
TU Drama ... This Way ...
How do you get to Broadway? Practice! Practice! Practice! That’s why each day, twice a day, Talent Unlimited students file into the Black Box, our mini theater, for vocal training, scene study and movement exercises.
"The well respected Drama department at T.U. has created a model curriculum recognized by the NYSED. Drama students are offered a four year curriculum that includes movement and dance for actors, voice and speech, theatre history, scene and monologue study, communication skills and stage
production. Internship opportunities include participation in Epic Theater's Off-Broadway stage productions and summer program in Maine. Students perform throughout the school year in productions chosen from the world's great dramatic literature."
Freshman Acting
The course theme is "Ensemble." The lessons are built around establishing trust and respect, building a creative environment and learning acting skills that can be shared with other actors and an audience. Students also learn stage and theatre terminology and apply all these concepts to classroom projects and performances.
Freshman Movement
The course theme is creating ensemble through movement. The class is linked with Freshman Acting and has a similar focus. Emphasis is placed on increasing students' comfort level with their own bodies, increasing flexibility and strength, and exploring the body's capabilities and range of movement. Students also learn basic dance movement, movement improvisation and proper body alignment.
Sophomore Movement and Voice & Speech
During the second year of study, movement and voice & speech are combined. Students alternate classes on a MWF/TTh split. During movement, students expand on the sense of ensemble through movement begun in Freshman year. Emphasis is placed on instilling an individual sense of discipline in warming up the body and on creating movement linked with scenes developed in Sophomore Acting. During Voice & Speech, students are introduced to phonetics and articulation using the Skinner Vocal technique. Students explore vocal work through a variety of media including study of Shakespearean language, news broadcast, voice-over and public speaking.
Junior Voice & Speech
This course focuses on the application of the skills developed during sophomore year. Students explore vocal work through study of theatre history, genre and style. Specifically, students focus on voice through their study of ritual and myth, Greek theatre, Roman theatre, Medieval theatre and other periods in theatre history. They continue studying Shakespeare and explore the works of Moliere, Ibsen, Chekov and Shaw.
Student Profile Aime Kelly
"Working with Epic Theatre Center at TU has made me realize that the theatre is where I need to be to change the world. My words have the power to change the minds of people in the audience."
  
Senior drama student Aime Kelly has spent the last four years working closely with Epic on a number of diverse projects: from a student writer/ performer on Antigone-in-Progress to an assistant director on TU's adaptation of Ibsen's Enemy of the People. Aime has also worked on Epic's Off-Broadway stages in bridge projects such as Pieces of the Throne and the Hannah Arendt Theatre Forum. She traveled with company as a peer leader on an education residency in Waldoboro, Maine. Working with professional theatre artists, "makes you feel like a professional."
Senior drama major Sam Zimmerman is one of TU’s most accomplished actors. Over the past three years he has accumulated an extensive and diverse resume, including roles as challenging as John Procter of The Crucible and Juan Julian of Anna in the Tropics. Though he has “definitely grown as an actor,” and plans to apply his knowledge of drama to the study and production of film in college, Sam most appreciates the personal relationships he has formed during the past four years. “The administrators, teachers, and students have always been there for me, as an actor and a person. Some of my best friends are people I’ve met at TU.”
Then Dance ...
Grace, strength, flexibility, vitality, passion, resolve and imagination. That’s the DNA of the dancer. The mission of the dance program at Talent Unlimited High school is to create an environment where students understand how the body, mind and soul of the artist come together. Dance students study modern and ballet technique along with improvisation, composition and repertory. They are offered a four-year program including dance history, dance appreciation, health and kinesthesiology.
In eleventh and twelfth grade, students interview for a variety of internships throughout NYC. These include TU Performance Company, arts administration, teaching assistant, stage production, costuming, fitness clubs, dance studio administration, and American Folk Art Museum.
All dance students perform several times during the year and participate in Arts Outreach Programs including N.Y.C. Ballet workshop, City Center, SUNY Brockport, N.Y.U., Martha Graham Dance Center, Ballet Hispanico, Jose Limon and Lar Lubovitch Company.
Take a Bow ... DANCE 1- 9th GRADERS
Ballet 1 The course is designed to introduce the beginner/freshman dance student to the fundamentals of ballet technique. The emphasis will be in developing and understanding proper alignment and body placement through movement skills and daily ballet class. The specific barre will help to develop strength, flexibility, balance, musicality and coordination. Students will also gain in understanding and appreciation for ballet as an expressive art form through technique class as well as notations in dance history, reperatory, music, special projects and written journal entries.
Modern 1
Students will be able to identify and demonstrate movement elements and skills in performing dance at a beginning level. They will identify certain vocabulary and styles. They will increase in agility, strength and stretch. Students will begin to apply critical thinking skills to monitor their personal technical development. The emphasis will be on alignment and breath as a basis of movement. Fall, rebound and suspension are the basis of the technique, influenced by Humphry-Weidman and Limon.
Modern 1 Improvisation
Students will be able to identify and demonstrate improvisational principles, processes and structures. They will understand and demonstrate how improvisational structures can be used in concert form. They will make artistic choices while creating dances to communicate meaning and elicit feeling. Students will make connections between dance and other art forms. They will use a variety of literal, musical, visual, and cultural sources as inspiration of their creations. They will understand the roles of various participants in dance productions, and make inquiry in dance-related material to research dance history.
Oh ... The Dance We Weave ...
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