Once accepted to the High School Summer Conservatory, students must submit a placement video to gauge talent placement in your chosen session track. Please use the highest quality recording equipment available to you. For best results, place your recording device on a stationary object, such as a table. Please note that all videos will be used for scholarship consideration.
*Students must please submit placement video within 14 days of receiving their acceptance email.
- What to include:
- Start your recording device and state:
- Your full name
- The major that you have applied for
- The campus where you were accepted (NY, LA or both LA + NY)
- The date of your audition recording.
- Performance requirements
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Acting including Acting for the Stage and Acting for Film and TV (NY + LA):
Please prepare two contrasting selections. Each selection should be no more than 2 minutes in length. One of the pieces should be a monologue sourced from a published play. The second selection is "free choice"- you may write and perform an original monologue; perform a poem or stand-up comedy set, or perform a second contrasting monologue from a published play. -
Vocal Music including Musical Theatre and Pop Star: Recording Artist (NY + LA):
Please prepare two 16-bar excerpts from two contrasting songs. Your first selection should be from the standard musical theatre repertoire (classic or contemporary). For your second selection, choose a contrasting song from the pop/rock genre or classical voice repertoire. If possible, both selections should be presented with piano accompaniment. -
Dance Theatre and Commercial Dance (NY + LA):
Please prepare two contrasting pieces of solo dance movement. Each solo should be no longer than 90 seconds. Your first solo piece should be grounded in classical ballet, jazz or modern technique and demonstrate basic turns, jumps and technical dance vocabulary. The second contrasting solo is "free choice" and may include specialty styles (ex. Hip-hop, Ballroom, Tap, Cultural) or any contrasting dance style.- A note to dance theatre applicants: Initial acceptance into the dance theatre program is provisional, pending the review of your placement video. Please send the link to your placement video submission as soon as possible.
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Acting including Acting for the Stage and Acting for Film and TV (NY + LA):
- When you are finished with your audition performance, please announce that you have "reached the end of the submission," restate your name, and stop your recording device.
- When your placement video is complete, upload it to an UNLISTED YouTube link (click here for instructions) and email this link directly to summervideo@amda.edu with "AMDA Placement Video: Your name, campus, session, and major" in the subject line. For example: "Placement Video: Sally Smith, Los Angeles, Session 1, Dance".
- Start your recording device and state: