12. PERFORMANCE STUDY IN THE USA AND JYA PROGRAMS

Theatre students have found semester or year off-campus study program valuable to their education. Students are responsible for planning their degree requirements with the department chair before participating in any off-campus study program.

Although drama groups are common abroad, acting and other artistic - oriented theater courses are rarely offered within the curriculum of foreign colleges and universities. As a result, most academic opportunities abroad are in programs provided by U.S. colleges or by specialized drama companies. More informal exposure to theater is available on an extracurricular basis through work with productions on campus, particularly at British universities.

COLBY-BATES-BOWDOIN LONDON CENTRE
The Department strongly recommends that students planning to study Theater in England enroll in the CBB London Center. Located in the historic Bloomsbury district between the British Museum and the University of London, the CBB Centre offers a program in theater that combines acting, voice, and movement with courses in text and performance and dramatic literature. Students regularly attend plays both in and beyond London. The faculty includes teachers from Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin as well as professionals from the British theater. Students considering foreign study in theater are required to give this progrram top priority in their planning.

CZECH REPUBLIC
A course on Czech theater with theater visits and meetings with prominent members of the theater community is included in the curriculum of the CIEE program in Prague.

GREAT BRITAIN
University of Manchester has courses in drama history, theory, and literature with supplementary courses in performance offered through nearby Manchester Metropolitan University.

Marymount College London Drama Program is a program for American students sponsored by Marymount College, an American school. Courses in acting, Shakespeare in Acting, Shakespeare texts, Voice and Speech Production, Movement, Action, Armed Stage Combat, Unarmed Stage Combat and Acrobatics, and Alexander Technique.

Middlesex University teaches drama at its Ivy House campus. American students apply through Butler University, a U.S. school, which provides the housing.

Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama is associated with the University of Glasgow. Application is made through Butler University.

Sarah Lawrence College Theater Program is a program for American students offered by Sarah Lawrence College, and taught in association with the British American Drama Academy (BADA) in London.Courses in Scene Study:Shakespeare, Scene Study:Style, Scene Study: Modern Drama, Acting in Performance, Voice, Movement, Stage Fighting, Theatre History, and Dramatic Criticism

University of Warwick has a large theater center near Stratford-on-Avon.

London Theatre Design Program: Offered jointly by the British American Drama Academy and Bennington College. Visitation of museums, theatre workshops, art galleries, places of architectural interest; classes in rendering, model making, cutting, tailoring and drawing by faculty of the Motley Design School; practice design meetings with directors from the Royal Shakespeare Company, The national Theatre and the Almeida Theatre.

Lancaster University. The theatre program investigates performance, theatre and drama of the twentieth century from an international perspective, with particular emphasis on the avant-garde and radical performance.

University of Bristol. Sponsored by Duke University, the program offers students a full load of courses in the Drama Department and outside

HUNGARY
From time to time Bates Theater Production travels to Budapest for performance in professional theaters.

RUSSIA
The National Theater Company provides a semester program in Moscow for students with Russian language skills and for theater students.

UNITED STATES
Trinity/LaMama New York City Performing Arts Program: Interdisciplinary program in dance, theater, music, writing, or design featuring performance workshops and seminar on contemporary theater and dance taught at the laMaMa Experimental Theatre Club, individually designed internships, specialized classes with leading teachers in acting, voice, movement, dance, and performance, and weekly attendance at performances followed by informal discussions with directors, choreographers and performing artists.

Trinity/LaMaMa/ New York City Performing Arts program 532 LaGuardia Place #574 New York, NY 10012

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut offers study in all aspects of the theater taught by some of America's finest artists and critics. Contact: Jane H. Percy, National Theatre Institute, 305 Great Neck Road, Waterford, CT 06385-3825

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