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DAI Wins $350,000 ArtPlace Grant
May 20, 2013

ArtPlace America announces today the award of a $350,000 grant to Dell’Arte International for the Mad River Industrial Art Park. This project was chosen from over 1,200 applications as
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DAI School Gets NAST Reaccreditation
May 4, 2013

The National Association of Schools of Theatre (NAST) Commission on Accreditation voted to continue DAI School's accreditation in good standing until 2020. NAST also granted its approval
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Prize of Hope to Christian Lollike
April 29, 2013

The 2013 Prize of Hope will be presented to Danish playwright/director Christian Lollike on May 19 at Aasen in North Jutland, Denmark. The Prize is presented annually in a bi-continental
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DISCO PARTY BENEFIT FOR DAI
April 16, 2013

Blue Lake's Logger Bar will hold a disco dance party Friday night, April 19th to benefit Dell'Arte. $1 of every drink bought goes to DAI. The 9 PM party follows the performance of "A Harvest
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SCHIRLE TO TEACH AT CLOWN CONSERVATORY
April 15, 2013

Founding Artistic Director Joan Schirle will be in residence at the San Francisco Clown Conservatory from April 22 - 26, teaching Bouffon in collaboration with SFCC faculty member (and
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Zuzka Sabata
Community Programs Manager

Zuzka Sabata sought political asylum in the U.S. from communist Czechoslovakia with her parents as a child. She was raised in California and lived in post-communist Czechoslovakia as a teenager. She began performing in San Francisco while attending San Francisco City College and received an MFA degree in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre from Dell'Arte in 2008. Currently, she works at Dell'Arte as the Community Programs Manager. In recent years she has led a Theatre Residency for all grades at Burnt Ranch Elementary School and taught physical theatre at Colfax High School and the Nevada City School of the Arts in California. She has produced various street theatre projects with community members of all ages in Grass Valley and San Francisco. Currently she does seasonal labor on local organic vegetable farms in Humboldt County as well as volunteering for numerous community events. She performs in local theatres and is a member of the community brass band Bandemonium, a community gamelan group which plays music of Indonesia, and is the lead singer of The Brendas, an all-girl bluegrass band.