• Summer Intensives

    Some Things Never Change: Reflecting on Our First Summer Back

    by  • August 4, 2021 • Faculty & Staff, Student Life, Summer Dance Intensive, Summer Intensives, Summer Physical Theatre Intensive, Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    Finally being able to come back to the Accademia this summer was definitely a bit of a surprise to me. So many students who were here this summer said the same thing, as some of them waited for months for the opportunity to set foot on our campus, so getting to be here felt...

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    Commedia dell’Arte with Chiara D’Anna

    by  • July 21, 2019 • Summer Intensives, Summer Physical Theatre Intensive • 0 Comments

    For the second half of our summer intensive physical theatre students either took Body Memory taught by Heni Varga and Dénes Döbrei or Commedia dell’Arte taught by Chiara D’Anna. In the Commedia dell’Arte course they explored and learned the history and traditions of Commedia dell’Arte and how to use those tools to  in a contemporary way....

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    Co Teaching with Dragana Alfirevic, Dejan Srhoj, and Gregor Kamnikar

    by  • July 18, 2019 • Summer Dance Intensive, Summer Intensives • 0 Comments

    For the second half of our Summer Dance Intensive our dancers participated in CoTeaching- Space for Collaborative Dance Production and Exchange of Dance Knowledge taught by Dragana Alfirevic, Dejan Srhoj, and Gregor Kamnikar of Nomad Dance Academy in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The dancers and faculty members worked together to explore and create by having an...

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    Summer Student Perspectives: Me & My Imagination

    by  • July 11, 2019 • Summer Dance Intensive, Summer Intensives, Summer Physical Theatre Intensive, Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    For this week’s student ADALife Blog post physical theatre student Mckenzie shares with us some of her instagram blogging she’s been doing while here at the ADA, and dance student Ronesha shares some photos and videos she’s taken of her fellow dancers and the work they’ve been doing. Mckenzie Wilkins, Arizona State University (Physical...

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    C.O.R.E with Helena Fernandino and Wagner Moreira

    by  • July 8, 2019 • Summer Dance Intensive, Summer Intensives • 0 Comments

    The first two weeks of our summer intensives are complete. Our dance students worked in their first two weeks in an intensive called C.O.R.E (Creating Opportunities for Research and Exploration). They worked with dancers, Helena Fernandino and Wagner Moreira. As these two artists are also parents, they switched off teaching time to take care...

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    Hidden Dimensions with Sam McGehee and Sašo Vollmaier

    by  • July 4, 2019 • Summer Intensives, Summer Physical Theatre Intensive, Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    The first half of our summer physical theatre intensive is complete. Our physical theatre students participated in one of two intensives going on these two weeks: Clown and Hidden Dimensions. Below we hear from Hidden Dimensions instructors, Sam McGehee and Sašo Vollmaier. In this intensive the students work with voice and movement to create and explore...

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    Clown with André Casaca and Federica Mafucci

    by  • July 4, 2019 • Summer Intensives, Summer Physical Theatre Intensive, Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    The first half of our summer physical theatre intensive is complete. Our physical theatre students participated in one of two intensives going on these two weeks: Clown and Hidden Dimensions. Below we hear from Clown instructor, André Casaca and his translator and collaborator Federica Mafucci. In this two week intensive students recieved their own red noses...

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