Applications are now closed for Summer 2025

Dates: July 18 – August 1, 2025

Location: Baldwin Wallace University, Ohio

Tuition: $4,500

Room & Board: $1,550

*Need-based scholarship is available for tuition and application fee. You can learn more on our FAQ page. Contact us with questions at programs@artsbridge.com. Students must be at least 15 years old to participate.

Course Descriptions

*Please note that the following are sample course descriptions. Final course descriptions will be provided to students in the spring.

Acting the Song: This class is rooted in the choices an actor makes about dramatic circumstances in a song.  We will explore the most powerful way to create a circumstance that can work for you in the audition process.  Included will be a specific technique of how to personalize your circumstance in each song to distinguish you as the most unique and authentic artist you can be.  

Not Just Notes on a Page: In this course, we will explore the synthesis of vocal technique & musicianship with dramatic intent & performance. Character development will be enhanced by examining the dramatic context in which a musical event is placed, as well as the structural and tonal shapes of songs & accompaniment. We will explore how music and text symbiotically create truthful and honest storytelling. A primary goal of this course will be to release your individual humanity into your repertoire by synthesizing musicianship and drama contained in the song lyrics with passion and clarity. We will learn how to make integrated dramatic choices that align with musical structure using theoretical analysis, various vocal techniques, and style- specific performance practices.

Vocal Technique: Walking into your audition feeling great about your songs is essential to a successful audition.  In order to do that, you’ll have to feel rock solid about your vocal technique.  Through group work and individual coaching, we’ll work on your audition repertoire – focusing on breathing, support, a free clear tone, diction, word stress, resonance, registration, and those darn high notes.  Our goal will be to increase your confidence and help you progress toward the solidification of your unique vocal sound.  Course Objectives will also include learning how to approach practicing in an efficient, systematic, and effective manner.  Finally, we’d like to make sure you understand how the voice functions in order to lay the groundwork for musical independence.  

Acting: Storytelling & Technique: This class explores some basic Acting tools which encourage a playful, in-the-moment believability in the audition room, rehearsal hall, or performance venue.  We will employ a series of exercises (using previously-prepared monologues) meant to enhance the actor’s focus, sensory capacity, and imagination in the hopes of finding a consistent freedom to behave believably under imaginary circumstances.  Objectives and goals include developing a practice for enhancing focus and imagination within performance; learning the value of analysis, memorization, and repetition as precursors to performance; and creating repeatable and believable in-the-moment performances.

Musical Theater Dance: We will begin to train the body as an instrument of creative expression by way of exercises building strength, form, and flexibility, while developing intricate body isolations. The class will explore elements of ballet, jazz, modern and African dance.

Movement: In this course we will be engaging the body to awaken the imagination, because our wise actor bodies know more than our minds. Let’s see what they have to teach us by turning off our brains and playing. That means we will be leaping, jumping and running so bring your play clothes! The ones you don’t mind rolling around in.  

Prep your Rep: Private Coaching: The one thing you have total control over in your college auditions is the command and preparation of your repertoire. The coaching will be used to enhance your current rep and to learn the new material you receive from the other MT faculty. In addition to a complete mastery of notes, rhythm and lyrics, we will also focus on marking cuts, creating a perfect “book” and communicating with the pianist. It will culminate in bringing those rudiments to life in perfectly crafted, beautifully phrased and truthfully acted audition cuts. Each student will have two coachings during the two-week intensive.