What are you doing this weekend? This is the question that plagues us all! Should I stay in Arezzo, should I take a day trip, or should I take a BIG trip? We talked to our fellow students about their travels thus far and compiled their suggestions into a rudimentary travel guide. In Italy…...
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Besides language teachers, I’ve never taken a class with a professor whose first language was not English. Having been at the Accademia for three weeks now I have learned the value, and (I dare to say) the necessity of having professors from all over the globe. Different upbringings and histories shape a people’s perspectives...
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MFA Student Profile: Samuel McGehee Name: Samuel Angus Mcgehee Age: 27 Where are you from? Pluto, India, Scotland, Arkansas, Boston, Italy What is your performance/theater background? I have no background, only underground, ‘time’ is something that stops existing as soon as the song ends. What were you doing just before you came to the...
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13 things that surprised us about Arezzo and the Accademia dell’Arte 1) The Food Obviously food was on my mind when I chose to study abroad in Italy. Pizza, pasta, gelato, olive oil, wine, cheese—the list goes on and on. Arezzo and the surrounding towns have so much to offer in the way...
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Last week, I travelled 15 hours via 2 planes and a bus, so that I could spend 3 months living in a house on top of a hill with a bunch of people I didn’t know… in Italy. I had also spent close to a year prior imagining what it would be like to...
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Name: Kelsa Dine Age: 25 Where are you from? Pleasant Plain, Ohio What is your performance/theatre background? I have a Bachelor’s Degree in theater from Goucher College. In addition to acting, I studied movement, playwriting, costume design, a little bit of general set/lighting design, and directing — the school had a sort of holistic...
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Bob Shryock is an actor-creator and theatre artist that works in both New York City and San Francisco. As a jack-of-all-trades, Bob has worked as a teaching artist, director, performer, deviser, producer and administrator for many organizations and universities. He recently accepted the role of Director of University and Artist Relations for the Accademia dell’Arte...
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I am so full of love, so full of faith that my path is set under my feet, so understanding of the fact that failure is part of life, that laughter is essential and love is the ultimate value for sustaining ourselves. I cannot express the amount of adoration I have for every individual...
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When I look back at my time here at the Accademia dell’Arte, there are many things that stand out as memorable and even, in some cases, life changing. Something in particular that stands out as a weekly memory would be movement classes with Stella. No matter how hard a day I was having at the time, movement...
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Over the past two weeks, the theatre students got to work with a dance faculty member, Sabine, on Laban movement technique. I had a lot of breakthrough moments in her class that really helped me open my mind to all of the things that my body can do. We focused on Laban analysis, which...
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Coming into this program, I was not sure what changes to expect in my musical perspective. I knew I would become more “cultured,” have more time to practice horn, and eat some incredible food (the bomboloni will always have a special place in my heart), but I didn’t know if I would have a...
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I had the absurd opportunity to go to France this fall break. FRANCE France. Like, Paris, France, but I’m not going to talk about all the nice tourist sites I went to see or the fancy wine, I’m going to talk about how I got to do my favorite movement exercise in the Louvre....
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