Please note: If you were previously registered for the March 7 date which was postponed due to a snowstorm, please contact the Office of Special Events at events@juilliard.edu or (212) 799-5000, ext. 329 to confirm your attendance on the new date (May 30), or to arrange for a donation or refund of your ticket purchase.
Choose Your Own Juilliard Adventure!
Drama Improvisation
with Richard Feldman
Enter a Juilliard 1st-year drama classroom and discover imaginary objects, environments, and situations, using basic acting exercises taught to our students. Enjoy this no-performance, no-pressure environment and discover your own spontaneity, playfulness, and confidence.
Drama Voice
with Susan Finch
Discover your best voice with instructor Susan Finch, who will lead you through an actor’s vocal warm-up, including exercises for respiration, phonation, resonance, and articulation. Experience the difference that vocal training makes and find out why actors still practice Susan’s exercises many years into their careers.
Drama Movement
with Mark Olsen
Learn to move like an actor with instructor Mark Olsen. Engage in kinetic responses to imaginary circumstances, promoting full body investment, increasing spatial awareness, and play. As an actor, your body is your instrument - learn how to play it!
Ballroom Dance
with Yvonne Marceau
Make a splash at the next family wedding! Ballroom dance includes classics like waltzes, tango, swing, and foxtrot. You’ll have fun learning the basics of ballroom dancing with like-minded beginners. No need to sign up with a partner.
Juilliard Dance: Inspiration, Creation, Collaboration
with Henning Rübsam
"That was interesting, but I did not understand it" are words often heard after a dance performance. Focusing on an upcoming Juilliard Dance production, Juilliard Dance alumnus and Evening Division faculty member Henning Rübsam leads this playful introduction to abstract dances, which will prepare the novice as well as the seasoned aficionado to watch a dance performance with understanding and joy.
The Opera Director: Concept to Performance
with John Giampietro
Go inside the process of staging The Merry Wives of Windsor with director John Giampetro and see how concepts are translated into performance. Look at initial designs, original renderings of costumes, and set drawings, and follow the journey to final images and performance clips.
Basics of Singing - SOLD OUT -
with Kurt Alakulppi
You love to sing (in the shower or otherwise) but have not had any formal training? Learn how to explore body awareness, control the breath with more freedom, and achieve better tone quality, in this class for beginning singers. Flex those vocal chords!
Quintessential Quartet
with Ara Guzelimian
Provost and Dean Ara Guzelimian collaborates with a student ensemble to explore a chamber music work from an inside view.
American Roots Music: Gospel and Jazz
with Doug Wamble
Parade through the history of this uniquely American art form with Juilliard Jazz faculty member Doug Wamble, to learn how traditional gospel, work songs, Delta blues, Appalachian folk, bluegrass and hymns are all a part of what went into the creation of jazz.
Beyond Baroque
with Sandy Miller
Learn what makes early music unique and see live demonstrations of rare instruments featured in the baroque period.
Treasures of The Juilliard Manuscript Collection
with Jane Gottlieb
Want to spend time with Beethoven sketches and see his messy manuscripts firsthand? You’ll explore some of his manuscripts, along with others by Brahms, Copland, Mozart, Schumann, and Stravinsky. Receive an exclusive insider’s view of the magnificent Juilliard Manuscript Collection.
Alexander Technique - SOLD OUT -
with Thomas Vasiliades
Alexander Technique is a mind-body method that reveals subconscious habits of reaction that interfere with performing daily activities. Putting the Technique into practice transforms these harmful habits to a better use and functioning of oneself. Used by actors, musicians, dancers, and athletes, the technique can benefit everyone!
