Last week the theatre students read Comedy by Andrew Stott in our philosophy class with Emilja. The book includes commentary and analysis on different forms of comedy, the origins of comedy, and how and why it is such a large aspect of our modern culture. The book marks different genres of comedy and encourages...
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I don’t know that I have a break through story. I often think of my journey as the peeling away of unnecessary layers and discovering the gold that can lay beneath. The most important lesson that I’ve learned as an artist began at BU and has definitely come to fruition here as well: sacrifice...
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I was awake until 5am that Saturday morning. Simply put, I couldn’t contain my excitement. At that point, I had been anticipating Spring Break 2014 for over a year and I knew that in only a couple of hours I would be in Paris after almost 9 years. After a few days, I was...
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Five hours of walking and all that was there was a pomegranate tree. On our first Sunday here, back in September, Jess and I attempted to find a gym. According to Google Maps it was 3 miles away, which isn’t that horrible of a walk. It’s definitely a nice warm up. We trekked into...
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As I get older, the line between teacher and student has been fading out gradually. Here at the ADA we take classes with working theatre professionals, true artists making a living from their art, and luckily for us students from the classes they teach. The teachers here at the ADA are so much more...
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In the pre-arrival documents for the Accademia dell’Arte, it was noted that European instructors might be more critical than the American instructors most of us are used to. Maybe it’s because I’ve previously worked with artists from around the world in and outside of the university setting, but what I’ve experienced over the past...
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Welcome to the MFA student profile series. Each month we’ll be giving you the opportunity to get to know one of our fellow cohort members. This month we’ll be starting with Rhianna! Name: Rhianna Smith Age: 31 Where are you from? Johnson City TN native, residences in New York and Minneapolis, hotel living around the...
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One word. One simple word. Yet, this word encompasses the entirety of our second semester and in an instant this simple word becomes vast and our mountain to climb. As MFA students we spent the first semester here at Accadamia dell’Arte building a collective foundation and developing a common language to use when devising...
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Life in Italy: All the rumors are true. The people are prettier, dress better, eat better, live better, and are more loving. But there have been a few curveballs thrown my way, I hadn’t known before I arrived. People are nice! I was told before I got here that people, especially working in any...
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This semester we hope to become fluent in Italian, collaborate with fellow students of cross-disciplines, push our limits, be put out our comfort zones, choreograph, devise, learn instruments, eat a lot of good food and never feel bad about it, immerse ourselves in the Italian culture, see as much of Italy as possible, find...
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Our first week here at the Accademia has truly been a whirlwind. Most of us couldn’t imagine actually getting here, actually living in a villa in Italy, and now we are here – and we are quite literally living. Our introduction to Italy has been nothing short of incredible, from where we live at...
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The cohort spent the final week of their first fall semester together at FLIC Circus School in Torino, located in Northern Italy. Housed in the premises of the Italian national gymnastic association, FLIC is an institution which includes state of the art facilities and enjoys a national and international reputation for training performers in contemporary...
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