Summer Arts Program 2010
MAY 24 – JULY 4

Accademia dell’Arte invites you to participate in an exceptional study abroad experience that celebrates the collaborative nature of the arts.

The Summer Arts Program gives students an opportunity to experience a taste of conservatory-style immersion in the areas of digital filmmaking, theatre or dance. Each day begins with all students participating in Scott Putman’s Elemental Body Alignment System warm-up (see below) followed by morning and afternoon studio time with outstanding teachers who will structure collaborative components that encourage students to link theoretical work with the immediate creative application in a truly interdisciplinary approach.

Students will live, eat and study in the spectacular Villa Godiola, a sixteenth century Renaissance structure overlooking the hills of Tuscany and the city of Arezzo.

EBAS (Elemental Body Alignment System)

This class is a series of stretching and strengthening exercises designed to integrate the body while increasing flexibility, range of motion and core strength. The focus of EBAS is to understand basic principles of initiating and anchoring movements from the pelvis while finding efficient and effective alignment through experimental anatomy.

This system empowers the learner to develop a consciousness for integrating and articulating body parts while translating the information to various techniques such as yoga and dance. When combined with other movement modalities, EBAS helps the student find a deeper understanding of the body and its kinetic awareness.

 
DIGI-REALISM: FILMMAKING IN AREZZO                        6 CREDITS
COMPRISED OF FILM I20: DIGI-REALISM I (3 CREDITS) - FILM I30: DIGI-REALISM II (3 CREDITS)

In this course, participants explore both documentary and narrative filmmaking techniques while collaborating with dancers and actors. As discussions, readings, screenings and workshops erode perceptions and arbitrary boundaries between non-fiction and fiction, the city of Arezzo will serve as both the set and laboratory in which students will produce high definition videos that respond to and articulate these very issues.

Students will investigate and develop filmmaking skills such as high definition cinematography, lighting and sound acquisition, documentary filmmaker-subject relationships, scriptwriting, shooting dance for camera, blocking and directing actors on location and in a studio environment, and post-production techniques in Final Cut Pro.

Instructors: Josh Gibson, Duke University and Shambhavi Kaul, Independent filmmaker
 
*To see the student produced film from 2008 go to:  La Vita del Pozzo

*To see the student produced film from 2009 go to: Sulle traccie di Gnicche

Instructors: Josh Gibson, Duke University and Shambhavi Kaul, Independent filmmaker
see bios under guest faculty

Instructors in the News: http://www.thedavidsonian.com/arts-living/films-look-at-conjoined-twins-country-music-star-1.1639232
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Josh Gibson and Shambhavi Kaul, both instructors of the Accademia dell’Arte Summer Study Abroad Program in Tuscany, Italy, co-run a production company, ...

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