We love our alumni! They are an awesome and supportive group of artists making great work and doing impressive things out there in the great big world. But we also know that making your way as an artist can be tough, and you need the help of a strong community to build a lasting...
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Managing Director Linda Brown gives us an update from a recent student scholarship fundraising event held in Little Rock, Arkansas. Held at Argento Theatre in Little Rock, the space looked lovely with posters throughout the space showing the Accademia campus, students performing in mask, and scenes from around Arezzo. The Italian-themed food and open...
Read more →Go in the studio with MFA students in this physical workshop
The MFA cohort started their fall term off on an invigorating note, with a three-day intensive workshop led by Italian Physical Theatre company Kataklo. Kataklo have built a solid international reputation, and created their own twist on the genre they call Athletic Dance, that the MFAs were all too eager to give a try.
See more images from the workshop on the Accademia Facebook Page. Read more about Kataklo Athletic Dance Theatre at Kataklo.com
For more videos from the MFA program visit the MFA YouTube page. For undergraduate videos visit the Undergraduate YouTube page.
Jump start your professional Laban training at the Accademia! We are very pleased to announce that starting Spring 2013 the Laban-Bartenieff-Course offered by the Accademia, and taught by dance program director and master teacher Sabine Fichter, will cover the necessary prerequisites for students interested in completing the professional Certificate Program in Laban Movement...
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The master teacher and craftsman leads a mask intensive Torborjn Alstrom has worked as an actor, instructor and maskmaker in USA and Scandinavia since 1985. In USA with San Diego Repertory Theatre and Dell’Arte Players Company, in Sweden with a number of theatre groups. As a teacher he has worked regularly at the National...
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The Tut’Zanni Theatre Company just finished a memorable workshop and performance tour of schools in South Carolina, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The company, comprised of six actors who met studying at the Accademia dell’Arte in 2006, reunited earlier this year in Arezzo Italy to develop a Commedia dell’Arte-based show, called Art For Sale. After earning...
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This fall the Accademia was proud to present a group of our MFA alums on tour. The Tut’zanni Theatre Company is made up of six working artists who met in 2006 while studying physical theatre at the Accademia dell’Arte and have reunited to devise their ideal form of theatre, Commedia dell’arte. Here are a...
Read more →Sophie Goldstein is a member of the current class in the MFA in Physical Theatre Program at the Accademia. We had a chance to ask Sophie some questions about her experience prior to coming to ADA, her impressions of the program as she undertakes her 2nd year of study, and her goals and aspirations...
Read more →—- Collette Campbell I think what surprised me the most was the language barrier with the locals in town. I took 2 semesters of Italian last summer and remembered a little, but I think actually being immersed in the culture and hearing people talk to each other a million miles a minute was intimidating...
Read more →Before our adventure in Italy began, I think everyone had some goals and expectations. We all had a list of places to travel, people to meet, wines to taste, and things to buy. I think perhaps the first lesson that we learned in Italy was that it wasn’t what we expected. As we stood...
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