The NYU Tisch Summer High School Program is an intensive and immersive artistic experience. The four-week program is open to high school sophomores and juniors from around the world. Students select one of the following artistic tracks: Dance, Drama, Production & Design, Dramatic Writing, Filmmaking, Game Design, Photography and Imaging, or Recorded Music. (Filmmaking is only open to high school juniors.) Students live on campus in New York City and earn college credit.
The NYU Tisch Summer High School Program is an intensive pre-college program which culminates in four to six college credits. The program is residential and depending on the artistic track of study, students reside in NYU housing either in Brooklyn or Manhattan. This program includes professional training and collaborative projects and assignments. The curriculum is based on the Tisch undergraduate courses. Students in the Tisch Summer High School Program are expected to complete any coursework and professional training requirements of the artistic track they are enrolled in. Program schedules keep students fully engaged with academic classes, professional training, and/or studio and production time Mondays through Fridays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Evening and weekends include curricular events/outings and time to complete assigned individual or collaborative assigned projects.
Dance
The program includes rigorous technical practice and opportunities for students to create new dance compositions, in addition to learning existing repertory from established New York City-based dance artists. The studio course consists of three components: Dynamic Alignment and Conditioning, Ballet Technique, and Contemporary Technique. The creative research course consists of three components: Composition, Repertory, and a series of special workshops in Improvisation, Anatomy/Kinesiology, and Dance and New Media.
Drama
Each week students will have 28 hours of conservatory training at either the Atlantic Acting School, the Experimental Theatre Wing, the Meisner Studio, the New Studio on Broadway, the Stonestreet Screen Acting Studios, or in the Production and Design Studio. Students will also take a weekly Introduction to New York Theatre seminar with professional actors, directors, designers, stage managers, and faculty as guests. Students will also attend Broadway shows.
Production & Design
The Production and Design Workshop is for the student who wants to pursue a career in the design, technical, management and other production areas of the performing arts. Coursework covers areas such as management, scenery, costumes, lighting, sound, drafting, drawing, and painting.
Dramatic Writing
Students will learn what it takes to be a professional writer for the stage or screen. The program covers the fundamentals of dramatic structure and students will develop plays and screenplays in writing workshops, and present work in the department’s Rita and Burton Goldberg Theatre.
Filmmakers Workshop
This hands-on workshop combines intensive professional training with a comprehensive understanding of the techniques and theories behind the art of cinematic visual storytelling production. Students work in crews to develop their writing, directing, and editing skills. Students use Tisch’s professional digital cameras and editing workstations.
Game Design
Learn the creative and technical skills of digital game development. This intensive summer program covers the various skills and disciplines that are brought together in modern game development: game design, programming, visual art, animation, sound design, and writing.
Photography and Imaging
Students will focus on using photo-based image-making for storytelling, communication, creative expression, personal exploration, and digital output. The course will address contemporary photographic culture and emphasize the development of individual voices and vision through assignment prompts and self-directed projects and research.
Recorded Music
The two courses in the program are Fundamentals of Music Production and Foundations of Music Business. Students will receive specialized training in music business entrepreneurship alongside direct instruction on the latest studio hardware to create and distribute commercially successful recordings.
