The Sixth Annual Cabaret Conference at Yale will take place July 25 – Aug 3, 2008. Here’s a link to the audition schedule.
The conference is always a great chance to work with some of the best people in the business as well as to bond with the other participants. Best of all, it is a time to get away from everything else in life and focus on yourself as a performer around people who feel the same as you.
In the next few days, I hope to have some DC artists share some of their Yale memories.
Here’s the announcement:
SIXTH ANNUAL
CABARET CONFERENCE AT YALE UNIVERSITY
JULY 25 – AUGUST 3, 2008
Erv Raible, Executive Director/Artistic Director, takes great pride in announcing the Sixth Annual Cabaret Conference at Yale University. The Cabaret Conference at Yale University is being developed in conjunction with the Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theater. Several conference sessions will be held in the facilities of the Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theater, including the recently opened New Theater.
The Sixth Annual Cabaret Conference At Yale University will be held July 25 – August 3, 2006, and is an internationally focused, nine-day teaching program that offers an intensive look at the art of cabaret performance technique, and trains professionals for the live entertainment industry. The Great American Songbook will be addressed and promoted in its entirety, from its origins in the late 19th century through the classic pop standards of the 1930s and 40s to today’s contemporary cabaret, musical theater, jazz, pop and classical music.
Our students have come from across the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa and the United Kingdom.
The award-winning faculty, and renowned consultants, will guide thirty-six students in a collaborative process of critical refining and honing. The conference will feature classes and lectures covering cabaret performance technique, acting for singers, lyric interpretation, focus and concentration, act structure, act writing, material research, and comedic development, to musical director and director relations, arranging, orchestration, composer/lyricist relations, and image consultation. Examine the final stages of act presentation through club relations, marketing, press and public relations, to the technical language of light and sound, representation, booking, management and personal networking; with an emphasis on integration into the international live entertainment community.
Public performances allow the students to observe first-hand the performance techniques of professionals in the industry, while continuing to study those of their peers on a daily performance basis. At the Cabaret Conference Curtain Call the students will perform, demonstrating what they have accomplished in their nine days at the Cabaret Conference at Yale University.
Our prestigious 2008 faculty currently includes: Tovah Feldshuh, Jason Graae, Carol Hall, George Hall, Laurel Massé, Sally Mayes, Sharon McNight, Erv Raible, Fred Voelpel, and Julie Wilson; piano faculty includes Ron Abel, Tex Arnold, Michael Orland, Alex Rybeck and Paul Trueblood.
The conference consultants/lecturers include: Fred Voelpel (image consultant), Tex Arnold (part singing, harmonies and back-up vocals), Matt Berman (light and sound technician), George Hall (English Music Hall), David Finkle (reviewer for Back Stage, trade publication), Michael Kerker (ASCAP, Director of Musical Theater and Cabaret).
The Cabaret Conference is held on the historic Yale University campus in New Haven, Connecticut USA, renowned as one of the world’s finest educational facilities, and for its spectacular architecture, world-class museums and libraries.
Housing for the Cabaret Conference at Yale University is in Yale’s new Swing Dormitory, and breakfast, lunch and dinner will be taken in the baronial Tudor Dining Hall of Saybrook College or the Eero Sarrinen designed Morse College dining hall.
Auditions will be held in: New York, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, London UK, Los Angeles, Minneapolis – St. Paul, New Orleans, Seattle, Toronto and Washington DC. To schedule an audition or for additional information contact Erv Raible, Executive/Artistic Director or Pam Tate, Executive Assistant at 212-629-2000 or visit our website at:
www.TheCabaretConferenceAtYale.com
Use Only This Number To Contact Us
212-629-2000
Auditions on video, CD, cassette or DVD, please include photo and resume, may be submitted to:
The Cabaret Conference at Yale University
520 Hudson Street
Suite 120
New York, New York 10014
USA
