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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During our time in Venice we had the opportunity to experience several new things that could influence the work we do in Arezzo. Not only did we visit different sites with a rich musical history, such as St. Mark’s Basilica, but we were also able to attend a few musical performances. Juny Kim was...
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Milan was cool and junk. I would say that the moral of the trip was: “I’m not sure if this will be ok, but let’s do it anyway.” We visited La Stalla, an opera house with a football field length long stage, and the Piccolo Teatro, that was indeed, ‘Piccolo.’ Ha! We watched our Commedia teacher Michelle Bottini...
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Before arriving in Italy, most of what I’d heard about European professors from friends who’d studied abroad before was rather… alarming. Common themes included uptightness, strict adherence for rules, and harsh grading systems. Well, we’ve been in class for a solid month now and I can definitely say that any kind of rigidity or...
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Before arriving in Italy, I thought myself mad for not being overly thrilled to live in another country for three months. Most study abroad students I spoke with could only describe their continuously fueled excitement and amazement for living in a foreign land. I, however, was scared beyond reason. Not scared to be away...
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It’s only my first week at the ADA and yet somehow I feel that I have already started achieving many of my goals. My first goal coming into the program was to try everything. There have been times in my life where I have been apprehensive or scared to do things because I thought...
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