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The Academy – just 2 weeks left to book!
May 9, 2012
You have just TWO WEEKS left to book your place at The Academy for 2012!
Booking is simple.
Go to the ISTA website and select the Act you would like to attend:
Act 1- July 8th – July 22nd, Act 2- July 22nd – Aug 5th, or Both Acts, July 8th – Aug 5th
We still have spaces available for Act 1, 2, and the full one month programme. For those of you who can’t quite decide which Act to choose from, trust us, they will both be fantastic!
You have until the 25th of May 2012 to decide and get your booking in– don’t miss out!
Experience The Academy
Students of The Academy will be given many opportunities to engage with local French culture, through enriching ‘out and about’ visits:
The Maeght Foundation; a unique site dedicated to Art
The Matisse Museum; …’welcoming vistors to its collection of works left by the artist (and his heirs) to the city of Nice where he lived from 1918 until 1954.’
Take trips to the beach; visit the stunningly beautiful French city of Nice; walk the Gourdon Mountain and take in the St Paul De-Vence region.
Posted in FestivalsFestivals 2012-2013
April 24, 2012
Our Festival Calendar for 2012-13 has been updated…
Show me a summary | I chose my event ages ago, show me more!
Booking opens on May 1st – don’t miss your spot!
Posted in Festivals“Hey ISTA!”…. “Hey what?”… “New show!”
April 18, 2012
April meant the Winnipeg Comedy Festival and Saskatchewan Casino tours! I had several shows and a TV gala, but one of my highlights was a panel show called MAKE IT BETTER- about bullying. The hilarious Nikki Payne and Scott Thompson from Kids in the Hall were also on the panel.
I’m directing XANADU for Actor’s Express in Atlanta-opens May 12th and is sold-out! My new show Dumped by a Clown, Living with Mama-not a metaphor opens this summer at the Edmonton Fringe Festival.
Hoping I will be performing at the London Taps!!!! “HEY ISTA!” “HEY WHAT!”
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Absolutely loving it on the Nile… in the UK…
April 18, 2012
I’m currently playing “Harun” (the ship steward) in Bill Kenwright’s No.1 UK tour of Agatha Christie’s “Murder On the Nile”. We’re having such a fantastic time travelling the length and breadth of the country; discovering interesting facts and stories about each place and performing in some of the most beautiful theatres in the UK. I’m absolutely loving it…!
Please find attached a couple of photographs from the show, as well as a link to Bill Kenwright’s website.
Pixie style…
April 17, 2012Tara Brodin (ISTA staff) just finished the first year of her masters, cut her hair into a pixie style and is moving to Switzerland in January. She is also directing/devising a show at the moment called … THE COMING OUT MONOLOGUES!
Posted in Back stage whispers...From the Istanbul to the studio…
April 16, 2012Stephen and Matthew Finegold who both staffed the Istanbul Festival recently are back in the studio recording their latest album. Their previous instrumental work is selling well on iTunes and Amazon and they hope to release the next one on the Routenote label sometime in the summer.
To hear samples: http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/blueish/id411968630
Casting Call!
March 30, 2012ECIS Conference – November 2012
Can you show English teachers how to lift literature “out of the sepulchre of the book”
(as Max Reinhardt once observed) and get it on its feet?
Do you know how to use drama techniques in ESL teaching?
Would you be willing to show Historians how to explore a topic through Theatre?
Can you show T.O.K. teachers how to address an issue using Boal’s Forum Theatre?
The ECIS Drama and Theatre Committee is looking for theatre teachers willing to share their experience, knowledge and insight at this year’s ECIS Conference in Nice, 23 – 25 November 2012.
Our aim is to have a Theatre across the Curriculum strand running through each drama session!
If you are willing to offer a cross-curricular “Teaching xxx Through Theatre” session, please fill in the on-line form by April 16th to submit a proposal:
http://edmundo.ecis.org/new/conference/november/proposals/index.asp
Hope to see you in Nice!
L.-C Bérubé on behalf of the ECIS Drama & Theatre Committee
MYP Project based on ‘Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress’
January 17, 2012
In the months January to May, the Chinese International School’s Drama and French Department embarked on an MYP Interdisciplinary Project of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. This concluded with a Production and Language/Culture tour of London and Paris.
The Project’s success lay in the close collaboration between the two departments, and was supported on a number of levels by the English, Humanities, Art and Chinese Departments.
The curriculum focus of the project was embedded in the Year 10 Drama and French courses in semester two which saw students study the themes of the Cultural Revolution through the eyes and imaginations of the characters of Dai Sijie’s novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.
The co-curricular aspect of the project was two tiered:
1) The lecture series delivered to Year 10 across a number of rotation periods, which drew on CIS staff members’ experience, knowledge and eye-witness accounts of the Cultural Revolution.
2) The MYP Production of an adapted version of Dai Sijie’s novel which was opened to all students studying the MYP Course at CIS.
The extra-curricular outcome of the MYP Interdisciplinary Project was a Production and Language/Culture tour of London and Paris. This outcome of the project was opened to all students studying Year 10 French and all students involved in the MYP Production of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress.
Throughout the Project there were a number of highlights that come to mind. Although performing the work of students to appreciative London and Parisian audiences was certainly something special, and attending engaging workshops on Commedia del Arte, Musicals and mime were unique experiences, there happened to be one moment that was all encompassing, the moment when one of the students on tour oversaw a man reading an article when waiting for the Eurostar, titled “Mao’s Red Guards burned my family history” (which was in Saturday’s Guardian newspaper). It was one of those moments in teaching that reinforced the importance of how approaching curriculum from a layered perspective creates students that are more engaged with the world which surrounds them.
The article could not have been timed better.
The MYP Interdisciplinary Production Project was a rewarding experience for all students and teachers involved.
By Mitch Grace, Rachel Jackson and Christèle Joly
Posted in TeacherTurning on the TaPs…
January 10, 2012With the new year comes a new programme of TaPS scheduled for autumn 2012. Bookings for student groups opens Monday 16th January – so please get in early as places are likely to go quickly. We will have our two London TaPS as usual – a return to Stratford upon Avon (yeah!); then we head to Kuala Lumpur and Bangalore in Asia Pacific; and our annual event in New York runs as usual.
Dates and essential details will be listed by Monday morning – so you should have time to review the basics before booking your students in.
We hope you can join us.
A call for hosts…
January 10, 2012My plan is to get the 2012-2013 Festival calendar finished by the end of January. I am nearly there BUT, decidedly short of venues in Europe for both MS and HS Festivals. I’ll keep plugging away with individual emails but if any of you can step in and help us out, even if it’s not officially your turn, we’d be immensely grateful.
So, take a deep breath and go for it – please – it’s so important we have a full line up of Festivals…
Please email Sal directly to say ‘we’ll go for it’ or to ask questions if you have them.
Sal (sally@ista.co.uk)