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Applications are currently being accepted for the 2021 91做厙ぢ賤唳 Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA), Interim Commissioner Betty A. Rosa announced today. The four-week summer program will be held fully online to ensure safety during the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. Tuition will be free for all students who qualify, fostering equity by allowing students who may not have been able to participate otherwise. Students will be able to experience intensive work and interaction with internationally acclaimed artists and performing arts companies. Students in grades 8-12 throughout 91做厙ぢ賤唳 are encouraged to . Auditions and portfolio reviews will take place online in January and February.

���The 91做厙ぢ賤唳 Summer School of the Arts is a remarkable program and we are so proud to continue to offer students incredible experiences this year, despite the challenges posed by the pandemic,��� Board of Regents Vice Chancellor T. Andrew Brown said. ���I am especially gratified that we are able to open NYSSSA to even more students by increasing access through our virtual platform and I urge parents and students to take advantage of this phenomenal opportunity to connect with and learn from accomplished artists.���

���Our NYSSSA staff have poured their passion into ensuring that their exceptional students can continue to grow artistically and personally by transforming the curricula for optimum online learning,��� Interim Commissioner Rosa said. ���Considerable distance and financial barriers have been eliminated in converting to an all-virtual format, and I hope that parents and students will seize this opportunity to experience world-class mentoring and interaction with our instructors and artists.���泭泭

���In its 50-year history, NYSSSA has never missed a summer to support young artists,��� Executive Director Molly Hennighausen said. ���Yes, this summer will look different than泭our in-person programming and we look forward to returning to that in the future. That said, we are excited to build upon everything we learned last year to offer an even more robust online program for young artists across the state.���

The 91做厙ぢ賤唳 Summer School of the Arts provides over 400 of New York���s most talented students the opportunity for advanced study in the visual and performing arts fields. NYSSSA is comprised of seven component schools: Theater, Ballet, Modern Dance, Orchestral Studies, Choral and Vocal Studies, Visual Arts, and
Media Arts. The summer arts program offers highly competitive pre-professional training to promising artists from a variety of disciplines.

Students are accepted into the schools through a competitive audition and review process conducted by the artistic staff. Due to the nature of the 2021 program, tuition will be free for all students, enabling every student who qualifies the opportunity to participate in the program. Audition information and application materials are available on the .

Though usually experienced as a four-week residential arts program, NYSSSA staff have adapted the curriculum due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Students will be able to experience intensive work and interaction with internationally acclaimed artists and performing arts companies. The modified NYSSSA program will continue to give students a unique opportunity to experience the rigors of their chosen arts field.泭

will be a series of online classes hosted through Zoom. The School of Ballet is led by New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Daniel Ulbricht, features a faculty of dancers from around the country, and provides intensive ballet technique instruction as well as pointe, character, jazz, variations, and pas de deux classes.

will be a series of consecutive online classes hosted through Zoom over four weeks. The program provides students with intensive instruction in acting, movement, improvisation and voice, working side by side with nationally recognized faculty. Under the artistic direction of Margaret Denithorne, daily classes include monologue review, improvisation, scene study, and movement, along with guest artist workshops in college audition preparation, self-taping, and more.

will be a series of live streamed 60-90 minute sessions that meet once a week for four weeks. Directed by acclaimed artist and Metropolitan Museum of Art educator Yayoi Asoma, NYSSSA educators will give 10 different workshops on mixed media, figure studies, sequential art, printmaking, drawing and painting, sculpture, and more as well as providing feedback to students and holding critiques individually.

will host a series of online sessions over the course of several weeks. The sessions will include workshops on music theory and history, vocal health, vocal warmups, college selection and audition preparation, ear training, musical theatre, and more. Each workshop will feature the world class group of educators and musicians, some of whom have been teaching at NYSSSA for over 20 years.

will include a four-week long series of consecutive live-streamed and asynchronous screenings / workshops on the tools, techniques, and critical concepts of multi-disciplinary media arts, including animation, sound art, 16mm handmade films, video and photography. In contrast to the in-person Media Arts program, the virtual summer program marries these disciplines into one multi-media, multi-disciplinary media arts class. Under the direct of Ghen Zando-Dennis, students will have the opportunity to investigate new mediums and explore the ways that the media arts practices are not fixed.

will be a series of consecutive online classes hosted through Zoom over the course of four weeks. Under the direction of Carolyn Adams, former Paul Taylor Principal Dancer, students study with a diverse faculty of nationally acclaimed dancers. Students take daily classes in Limon, Graham, Horton, Cunningham and Taylor technique, as well composition, repertory, and performance. Students also will participate in guest artist workshops with well-known companies and choreographers-in-residence such as Robert Battle and Earl Mosley.

will contain a series of masterclasses with The Philadelphia Orchestra and intensive chamber music ensembles over the course of two weeks. Under the direction of Dr. Bruce Kiesling, the unique partnership maintained between the School of Orchestral Studies and the Philadelphia Orchestra will be expanded this summer to include more opportunities for more student musicians.

NYSSSA is a program of the State Education Department and Office of Cultural Education. NYSSSA serves an important need to foster and enhance the artistic abilities of the state���s most gifted young artists regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, or economic status. Follow-up studies on the program have identified former students who now hold positions within top professional companies around the world.