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Hey, everyone. Welcome to Juilliard! My name is Toney Goins. I'm a BFA actor here, and
I'm gonna take you on a little tour today.
So here at school we have around
850 students that breaks down to about 600 musicians, 96 dancers, and 80 actors.
This is our Glorya Kaufman Dance Studio. This studio actually protrudes out from
the side of the building and sticks out over Broadway. There's an amphitheater
under it with the intent for anyone outside to be able to come, sit down,
drink, eat, and be able to watch Juilliard students rehearse and perform.
Juilliard Dance aims to create contemporary dancers, versatile performers trained
with equal emphasis in classical ballet as well as modern dance. Modern
techniques currently studied include Limon, Graham, Taylor, Cunningham, Horton, and
Gaga. Guided by highly regarded artists, students perform in monthly workshops
and present about 15 public concerts each year, including New Dances, a
new commissioned work from prominent contemporary choreographers, Juilliard
Dance Repertory series, and ChoreoComp, which is student choreographers and
composers collaborating.
Now we're in the drama spaces. Juilliard Drama consists of
a four year conservatory-style acting program, as well as a playwriting program.
The McClelland drama theater seats 184 and is where all of our fully produced
fourth-year productions happen. Now the space is reserved for our drama students,
but every year we put on eight fully produced plays that are open to the
public, including a two-play Shakespeare rep by our third year actors. As a drama
student, you'll take classes in acting, voice, speech, movement, Alexander
Technique, singing, masks, stage combat, poetry, theater history, and physical comedy.
The Steinberg drama studio is a highly adjustable black box theater on
the third floor where all of our third-year productions take place. The
drama division is a rigorous program with actors here six days a week, working
12 to 13 hours a day on average.
The fourth and fifth floor is home to
most of our music spaces. We have over a hundred practice rooms and over 250
Steinway pianos. Walking down the hall, you'll come across students practicing,
private lessons, and rehearsals.
Room 543 is our orchestra rehearsal room. This room
is acoustically engineered with moveable panels along the top half of the room.
The fixed acoustic panels along the bottom half allow for varying levels of
sound absorption and diffusion. Lots of different ensembles rehearse in here,
including the Juilliard Orchestra, Juilliard Chamber Orchestra, New Juilliard
Ensemble, AXIOM, the Juilliard Lab Orchestra, and Juilliard415. The
Juilliard Orchestra is the school's major orchestra which consists of
students in all years of study. They perform in the Peter Jay Sharp Theater,
David Geffen Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall. The orchestra has also
toured Europe and Asia. The Juilliard Chamber Orchestra operates without a
conductor and is modeled after the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The Lab
Orchestra provides practical experience for student conductors. In addition to
performing standard orchestral repertoire, the orchestra also reads work
by student composers. Juilliard415 is the primary performance ensemble of Juilliard's
Historical Performance program. Juilliard Historical Performance is
designed for graduate-level musicians who have a special interest in period
instrument performance and brings together some of the most prominent
period instrument performers, scholars, and teachers in the world. All historical
performance students have frequent opportunities to perform in a variety of
venues around New York City, and the program regularly tours around the world.
This is Paul Hall. This is actually one of our busier rooms we have here in the
school. We have up to around four events a day that go on in here and that could
be anything from master classes to recitals. The space seats 275, one of our
five organs lives in here, and all of our performances in here are professionally
recorded by our recording services department.
The Ellen and James S. Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts offers comprehensive
training for singers at all stages of development.
Perhaps the hallmark of the Institute is the individual musical and diction
coaching. They are scheduled on a weekly basis for all students within the
program. By tailoring your schedule to your individual needs and educational
priorities, you're able to progress at your own pace.
Room 340 is our jazz rehearsal room. It also hosts intimate concerts as well as
live-streamed performances. The Juilliard Jazz faculty is comprised of today's
most active, innovative, and respected jazz musicians in the world.
The ensembles also are featured regularly at Dizzy's, which is a part of
Jazz at Lincoln Center and the world-renowned Blue Note, right here in New
York City. The Rosemary and Meredith Willson Theater is the most
technologically advanced black box theater on campus. This includes a
lighting grid, a permanently installed sound system, a removable dance floor, and
video projection capabilities. All this tech is used to incorporate the work of
all three divisions.
Morse Hall is another performance space we have here.
It's a smaller one compared to Paul Hall, but it has complete flexibility in
seating configuration and is also used for recitals, master classes, meetings, and
other special events too.
Peter Jay Sharp Theater. This is our
largest performance space on campus. It seats 907 people! Our dance main stage
performance happens in here, our operas happen in here, and the jazz
orchestra plays in here. A unique feature of this auditorium is its movable
ceiling. Over 60% of the entire ceiling can be raised or lowered 7 feet to
permit acoustic adjustments of the hall.
Our library is designed to be a
comprehensive resource for the Juilliard community's performance and research
needs. Its collection, which comprises more than 77,000 music performance and
study scores; 24,000 books on music, drama, and dance and academic subjects; 26,000
recordings in all formats; and more than 2600 videos has been carefully curated
and developed to serve the needs of the Juilliard community. We also have a
manuscript collection that contains 140 autographed manuscripts, composer
sketches, engraver proofs, and first editions by various composers such as
Bach, Copland, Schumann, and many others. Despite being a conservatory Juilliard
also has a liberal arts curriculum. All of our undergrad students have to take
30 credits outside of their division and typically 24 of those credits are in
liberal arts. That breaks down to about one class per semester, but if you do
want to take additional ones you can if you want to.
Juilliard also has on-campus housing: the Meredith Willson Residence Hall. All
first-year students are required to live there, but it's a housing option for any
student. It features a lounge, fitness center, and practice rooms--all with prime
views of New York City. Our Writing and Communication Center helps students
enhance their skills in writing and public speaking so that they may become
effective teachers, administrators, and advocates for the arts as they progress
in their professional careers. The Marks Center helps students and alumni develop
both short term and long term career plans through various resources and
programs such as grants, career advice, and Hire Juilliard Performers.
Thanks for coming on the tour, and I hope to see you on campus soon!
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