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Art, Film and Dance

New York City Art Museum Weekends

Instructor: Darrell Roberts

Session 1: Friday – Monday, June 13 – 16
Session 2: Friday – Monday, June 20 – 23

Session 3: Friday – Monday, June 27 – 30
 
Application Fee: $25
 
Deposit: $250 (applied toward tuition)
 
Tuition: $475 (includes three nights housing, breakfast, and museum admissions)
 
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Explore the museums of New York City. Join Darrell Roberts, artist and teacher, as he takes you through the vibrant art world of some of the best and certainly most well-known museums in the country. Students stay on campus at Sarah Lawrence College, a beautiful setting of 41 wooded acres with ivy-covered, Tudor style, and award-winning contemporary buildings. After breakfast on campus, a van shuttle takes students into the City in the morning and returns to pick up the group at night. Visits include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and The Frick Collection. If time allows, weekends may include the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Dahesh Museum of Art, and the Morgan Library and Museum.
  

Sarah Lawrence College & The International Film Institute of New York's Six-Week Summer Filmmaking Intensive

Wednesday, June 11 - Tuesday, July 22

Application Fee: $25

Deposit: $250 (applied toward tuition)

Tuition: $4,875

Housing: $1,700

Meal Plan: $945*
 
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This six-week, intensive program offers hands-on experience and instruction in all aspects of filmmaking and focuses on four core elements: writing for the screen, directing, production, and post-production. Lectures feature hands-on camera work, augmented by special guest speakers and behind-the-scenes visits to Manhattan production studios and editing facilities. After you shoot three film exercises focused on different filmmaking techniques, you’ll be ready to write, direct, produce, shoot, and edit your own short video. You choose the format — narrative, documentary, or experimental. You may choose to stick to a script with actors, costumes, and a controlled set, or you may approach your shoot with the spirit of improvisation. You’re the director. You call the shots. The final product is your completed short — to which you own the exclusive rights — ready for your professional portfolio, graduate school application or Web distribution.
 
*Students will have $25/day allotted on their Student ID cards to purchase food at the Ruth Leff Siegel Center. This is enough money to cover breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day. The Siegel Center offers an assortment of food choices from sandwiches to salads, grilled items such as hamburgers and chicken, as well as soup, entrees, and a full range of beverages.
For a tentative schedule, visit: www.nyfilmschool.com/pdf/6weekschedule.pdf
 

Information Sessions

Thursdays, January 10; February 14; March 6; April 10; May 8
Meet with Misael Sanchez, Co-Director of the International Film Institute of New York, and Liz Irmiter, Director of Special Programs at Sarah Lawrence College, to learn more about the program and tour the facilities used during the summer. This is an opportunity for you to hear about the curriculum, the faculty, where you will be living, and any other questions you may have about the program. Each information session is held at 1 p.m. and lasts about an hour. Please call Liz Irmiter at (914) 395-2693 to RSVP.

White Mountain Summer Dance Festival at Sarah Lawrence College

Sunday, July 13 - Saturday, August 2

Application Fee: $25

Deposit: $250 (applied toward tuition)

Tuition: $1,150

Housing: $945

Meal Plan: $475*
 
Registration is now full. To be added to our waiting list, we will be accepting online applications through the WMSDF at SLC registration site. You do not need to pay the application fee or deposit to be added to the waiting list.

We will contact students as spots become available. At that time, we will request the $25 application fee and $250 deposit.

We can be contacted at 914/395-2693 or email with any questions
 
White Mountain Summer Dance Festival involves three weeks of intensive dance training on the Sarah Lawrence College campus. With coursework in modern and ballet technique, Laban Movement Analysis™, Irmgard Bartenieff’s Fundamentals™, anatomy/kinesiology, yoga, and repertory pieces as well as performance and composition opportunities, this festival will help you work stronger, deeper, and more efficiently than you ever thought possible. Now celebrating its 29th year, WMSDF is a comprehensive approach to dance training that embraces individual needs, backgrounds, and aspirations. This year, there will be an added focus on creative process. Our dedicated faculty (including instructors from The Juilliard School, George Mason University, and the Tisch School of the Arts) has worked together for more than 12 years, helping dancers who range from beginners to professionals, teachers, and late-career dancers seeking to invigorate their body of knowledge.

Also offered during the Festival is a one-day symposium on the obligations and responsibilities of college-level dance programs, examining the importance of creativity versus the importance of technique. The goal of this forum is to encourage participants to reflect on how faculty can help students gain creative credentials as well as technical skills.

*Students will have $25/day allotted on their Student ID cards to purchase food at the Ruth Leff Siegel Center. This is enough money to cover breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day. The Siegel Center offers an assortment of food choices from sandwiches to salads, grilled items such as hamburgers and chicken, as well as soup, entrees and a full range of beverages.

For information on courses and instructors, and to view a tentative schedule, visit: www.wmsdf.org