<p>Are any college students going to LAMDA Fall Term? My D is and is really excited.
If anyone has gone, thoughts on what to bring are welcome!</p>
<p>I don’t know specifically about LAMDA, but I can give you some general travel advice about London, if that is what you are asking.</p>
<p>KEVP</p>
<p>My son has good friends who are just finishing up a semester at LAMDA. (He studied physical acting in Italy instead.) If you wanted to PM me I could endeavor to get you in touch with one or more of the girls through my son.</p>
<p>NJTheaterMom - Where did your son study in Italy?</p>
<p>Shirlee, it was at the Accademia dell’Arte, near Arezzo in Tuscany. There were students there from quite a number of US colleges…Emory, Bard, Muhlenberg, Goucher, Boston University, etc.</p>
<p>NJTheatreMom, How was your son’s experience in this program? I’ve heard about it, and it sounds intriguing. I would love to know more about it.</p>
<p>Sorry to highjack Chrissy’s thread, but my son’s experience at the Accademia was fabulous. In addition to the performance classes, the students study Italian and take a philosophy of art class that, in my son’s case, satisfied a distributional requirement at his university.</p>
<p>There are a number of workshops, one of which is mask making. My son made a wonderful Arlecchino mask that he brought home, and he adored the process. Commedia dell’arte is of course a component of the performance study.</p>
<p>The school is an a beautiful villa a short distance from Arezzo. There are weekend excursions that the students are taken on to see performances in the area, and there was a school trip to Venice as well.</p>
<p>More info here:</p>
<p>[Accademia</a> dell’Arte - European Theatre, Vocal Arts and Dance | undergraduate](<a href=“http://www.dell-arte.org/undergraduate.php]Accademia”>http://www.dell-arte.org/undergraduate.php)</p>
<p>connections - I believe that Accademia is where the CCU BFA Physical Theatre students will now spend their senior year.</p>
<p>Hi there, I’m NJTheatreMOM’s son - and I just got back a few days ago from Italy! I highly recommend the Italy program. Students take their primary classes in Movement (involving contact improv, acrobatics, and composition), Voice (Roy Hart primarily), Commedia (with a focus on modern application), as well as Italian and Philosophy. Along with this, the program pulled in guest teachers for workshops including such topics as Contact Improvisation and juggling. The program, in my view, is designed to create autonomous, professional creative artists just as ready to form a theatre company or join a company of devisers as to go out and audition. </p>
<p>The location is beyond beautiful, and there is significant time given to students to travel in Italy and elsewhere (including a ten-day Spring Break). The school also features cabarets throughout the semester, which are chances for students to show their own individual artistic work independent of any class. In the spring there is also the chance to collaborate with the parallel dance track and sometimes with the MFA students who are also studying theatre.</p>
<p>Perhaps the best thing about the program is that they take student feedback VERY SERIOUSLY. Every year the program changes based on feedback, so the institution is in a constantly creative state of flux. I’m sure the program in a few years will be very different and even more beautiful animal than the one I experienced. </p>
<p>The school is NOT primarily about teaching Commedia dell’arte. It merely uses this as a basis for exploring what it means to be a creative artist. It is also not about training actors who are only interested in psychological realism. It offers a wide and very, well, European view of what it means to be an actor, an artist, and a creator. I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone with a desire to be any of these.</p>
<p>Did you need Italian?</p>
<p>The instruction at the Accademia dell’Arte is all in English. The school was established by Americans (and has an office in the US that facilitates visa applications), and the undergraduate students are American college students. </p>
<p>However, most of the faculty is European.</p>
<p>The students do take a 3-credit class in basic Italian as part of the curriculum while they are there.</p>
<p>austinmtmom, Yes, I thought this program was the same one at CCU! What a wonderful opportunity at CCU! The whole year! Will your D be going? YoungThespian, did you interact with other schools, or was your own program self-contained? Thanks!</p>
<p>Connections, the Accademia is self-contained as a unit and doesn’t have much interaction with other schools in Italy, however within the program there is AMPLE crossover between different colleges from the U.S. While in the Spring BU almost always sends the largest single contingent, there are also students from a variety of other colleges as well as a dance program and the MFA students. All of this provides for a very boundary-expanding experience. I even met friends there from other states who I have plans to collaborate with post-graduation!</p>
<p>Not LAMDA but daughter is going to BADA and is excited too, interested in feedback for that program too!</p>
<p>No one has answered the OP question.</p>
<p>connections - As an MT major my D will not get to do a semester or year in Italy. But there may be some short-term options for the MTs to study there. The PT majors spend senior year there, and I believe the Acting majors can spend a semester. Here’s a quote about the PT program Ken posted on another thread:
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