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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LIFETIME AWARD TO JANE HILL
March 25, 2013
Dell'Arte International's co-founder, Jane Hill, will receive the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award at DAI's Mad River Festival on June 29. Tickets for the event include dinner, drinks, and
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 Joan Schirle
Founding Artistic Director/Master Teacher
Joan's "I Am Theatre" video, part of TCG's 50th anniversary series of short videos of 50 US theatre artists is here www.tcg.org/fifty/videosdetails.cfm
Joan Schirle is the founding artistic director of Dell'Arte International and served as director of the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre from 2002 - 2011. She is an actor, playwright, director, deviser and teacher, whose acting work was recognized with a 2006 Fox Foundation/TCG Resident Actor Fellowship in the first round of awards for professional development. In 2004 she was honored at the 16th Cairo International Experimental Theatre Festival as a leader in the field of experimental theatre. Joan designed the curriculum for DAI’s accredited MFA in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre, now in its seventh year, and continues to direct DAI's annual Bali program. She is a senior teacher of the FM Alexander Technique; her teaching work includes movement, mask performance, commedia dell'arte, voice and physical acting. She has devoted her research to the work of the actor as mover/creator. Joan has taught in MFA programs at Yale, UCSD, University of Missouri Kansas City, as well as for the artists of Cirque du Soleil. She has directed productions at San Diego Rep, the Alley in Houston, Bloomsburg Ensemble, A Traveling Jewish Theatre, Touchstone Ensemble, Colorado University/Boulder and Dell'Arte; her solo show, Second Skin, has been seen in many US and international cities. In Fall, 2012 she was invited to teach physical acting at the Beijing Dance Academy in China. She created the role of Mary Jane in "Mary Jane: The Musical" at the 2011 Mad River Festival.
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