The University of Theatre and Film Arts will issue a micro-certificate to those who successfully complete the partial knowledge training. This public document will include the learning outcomes, course description, and credit value.

Vocal course details:

During the 12-week training, students will automate essential conscious diaphragmatic breathing for organic intensive vocal training, along with applying flexible “support”. They will interpret role-appropriate musical material without sheet music, understanding and articulating its textual content flawlessly in a foreign language. The course will cover the musical and dance languages of operetta, with a particular focus on the traditions, folk music and folkdance roots of the Hungarian operetta. The tutoring will deepen the student’s knowledge as a close complement to the primary subject of singing. The course will involve regular practice of vocal techniques specific to operetta roles, including duets, musical ensembles, vocal training, text comprehension, pronunciation, dance styles, and choreography. By the end of the masterclass, the goal is for students to achieve confident role perception, vocal training, text comprehension and pronunciation, duets and musical ensembles, and the full musical and dance realization of the operetta, with participants divided by assigned roles within an open class framework.

The subject will involve high-level model analyses and practical tasks in a continuous, meticulously structured series. This will include studying key creators and performance types of the examined period from a dramaturgical perspective. The theoretical portion of the course will be structured to examine the origin, preconditions, stylistic tools of the chosen operetta, with a focus on the text’s interpretative possibilities, dramaturgical structure, scenographic issues, character portrayals, and the encoded stage effect mechanisms in the text.

Course Syllabus:

Weeks 1-4: Introduction to operetta history, musical style knowledge, vocal training, Hungarian/German/English text comprehension and pronunciation, basic vocal technique, and role understanding.

Weeks 5-8: Vocal technique practice specific to operetta roles, arias, duets, and musical ensemble coaching, vocal training, text comprehension, and pronunciation.

Weeks 9-12: confident role perception, vocal training, text comprehension, and pronunciation, duets, and musical ensembles. Musical realization of a complete operetta for all course participants within an open class framework, with assigned roles.

Movement course details:

During the 12-week training, the goal of the course is for participants to become familiar with Hungarian culture, the cultures of nationalities in Hungary, their dances, and characteristic stylistic features, and to master the language, structure, and stylistic presentation of folk dance. This includes: developing skills through folk games, movement development, teaching concepts based on movement fundamentals, special exercises for rhythm memory and movement coordination, understanding the basics of the Molnár technique, and cultivating self-discipline and movement requirements necessary for performance. Additionally, the course aims to enhance professional skills, movement development, and the related concepts, understanding and isolating body parts, using movement, and developing personal competencies for improving movement memory and coordination. The course will introduce students to dance dialects and stylistic layers, types of movements and basic motifs, technical mastery of improvisation as a performing art form, and social competencies such as creativity, brainstorming, attention focus, and memory skills.

Course Syllabus:

Weeks 1-4: Warm-up, training: mobilization exercises (ankles, knees, hips, shoulders); Skill development: special exercises for movement types: steps, creative rhythm exercises (pulsation, tempo); recognition of primary and secondary accents; Molnár technique; Learning dynamic movements on the floor; Experiencing breathing and cooperation as a group

Weeks 5-8: Folk dance technique: knowledge of footwork, movements of the ankle, knee, hip joints, basic motifs of the csárdás dance; Molnár technique: slow walking, basic turning exercises. Integration into combinations; Relaxation; Learning dynamic movements on the floor; Conscious use of strength and relaxation; Various possibilities of lifting and returning to the floor. Deepening performance characteristics.

Weeks 9-12: Molnár technique: slow walking, spinning etude, jumps; Folk dance technique: variations of swinging motifs, variations of pas de basque motifs, etude composition, ankling motifs; Integration into combinations; Relaxation; Practicing synchronization of training exercises and combinations; Experiencing breathing and cooperation as a group.

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