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The Dell'Arte International School has attracted students from
all over the world since it opened its doors in 1975.
What will you find at Dell'Arte International?
- Intense physical training to develop the expressive capabilities of the actor
- the study of movement, mask, clown, melodrama, commedia, devising and dynamic theatre-making
- an extraordinary location of natural beauty and inspiration
- an outstanding faculty of professional artists and teachers
- a dedication to community interaction
We offer an MFA in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre. The three-year MFA program runs concurrently with our one-year certificate-granting Professional Training Program (PTP). Both are in session from October till mid-June.
The expressed focus of the MFA training in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre is to offer a compelling, imaginative, and rigorous training for advanced students who have committed to undertake a performance path of actor-created, physically dynamic, ensemble-motivated theatre making.
Building upon the foundational training of the first year, the goal in the second and third years of this three-year program is the development of an ensemble performer with perspective and prowess, a physical actor with an articulate, incisive, and poetic voice; an actor with a collaborative spirit capable of contributing to the shape of contemporary theatre on an international scale. We educate the Actor/Poet as artist, entrepreneur and citizen.
The Advanced Ensemble Program (AEP) is a non-degree granting track of our 2nd and 3rd year MFA training. The AEP is for talented students who do not yet possess an undergraduate degree but have completed our Professional Training Program and are otherwise qualified for training at the level of our MFA students in terms of aptitude, rigor, maturity and perspective. AEP students matriculate into the 2nd and 3rd year ensemble alongside MFA students.
We train actors to be responsive and spontaneous with their imaginations, their minds and their bodies. We take the actor beyond the role of interpreter of a director's vision or playwright's words (the Actor/Interpreter); at Dell'Arte, the actor is fundamental to the creation of theatre (the Actor/Creator). We train actors to make Devised Theatre.
 "My Great Compelling is to create work for the theatre that becomes more than the ordinary comedies and tragedies of our lives... for a theatre capable of plunging people into a more profound reality than this world offers... meaning a dimensional reality, a poetic realm that includes Hope. Hope, not of platitudes and anecdotal situations, but Hope evidenced by the profound scope of vision, and intent to manifest/realize, through the transformational actor, a Character that demonstrates the fierce passion to engage the act of life in the Metaphysical Space of the stage."
-Ronlin Foreman, School Director ,
in an email to former School Director Joan Schirle
There is a dialogue happening at Dell'Arte International, that isn't happening anywhere else. A dialogue that has been on-going for 40 years and is now codified into the only Master of Fine Arts in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre in the United States. We have developed an approach to actor-training that is built on 40 years of research while training passionate performers from around the world. Our school exists side by side with the Dell'Arte Company, a physical theatre company that has been at the forefront of the ensemble movement for over three decades. Come join the dialogue and make a mark.
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For the second year in a row, the school has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll With Distinction. The 2011 Honor Roll recognizes higher education institutions that reflect the values of exemplary community service and achieve meaningful outcomes in their communities.
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