Why bring young people into musical theatre? And where to find ideas and content for teaching work?
The Accademia Teatro alla Scala invites teachers of musical subjects, musicians, dancers, dance teachers and piano accompanists to take part in free meetings aimed at providing methods and tools for teaching.
A certificate of attendance is issued at the end of the meeting.
CALENDAR 2024
‘Musical theatre: tools for teaching’.
The theme will be proposed on 18 and 20 June 2024: when registering, participants must choose one of the two dates. The meetings will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Academy's premises (in Milan, Via Santa Marta 18) and are open to a maximum of 16 participants on each date.
CONTENTS
- Why bring young people into musical theatre
- The role and importance of performance in society
- Ideas for interdisciplinary activities related to music
- Where to find content for teaching - Part I: paper resources (dictionaries, biographies, collections of letters, diaries and memoirs, music facsimiles, photo albums)
- Where to find educational content - Part II: resources from the web (digital archives, international examples of educational activities, booklets, biographies, working tools)
TEACHER
Andrea Massimo Grassi
‘Dancing to Bach, Schubert and Brahms: how music can inspire choreography’
The theme will be proposed on 4 July 2024. The meeting will take place from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Academy's premises (in Milan, Via Santa Marta 18) and is open to a maximum of 35 participants.<
CONTENTS
- The elements of music not written for dance that may have inspired the choreographies of Balanchine, Béjart, Neumeier, Kilián, Preljocaj, Platel, de Keersmaeker
- The elements of music that have a relationship with dance:
- - content of the poetic or literary text
- - the contrast and difference in expressive character, dynamics (forte and piano) and between major and minor modes
- - rhythmic regularity and irregularity
- - dialogue between voices
- - crescendo and diminuendo / rallentando and accelerando / slow and fast
- - the value of pause and silence
TEACHERS
Andrea Massimo Grassi and Inessa Filistovich
HOW TO ENROLL
Enrolment, which is possible while places are available, is carried out exclusively online, by registering on the Academy's admissions portal at iscrizioni.accademialascala.it and then filling in the application form.
Given the limited number of places available, applicants are asked to notify the Education Secretariat (segreteria.didattica@accademialascala.it), within a reasonable time, of any absence: this will allow those on the waiting list to participate. If the absence is not communicated, the candidate will be excluded from possible registration for subsequent meetings.
The meetings are realised within the framework of the ADA project - ‘ACCADEMIA DIGIT-ART for Culture and School’ co-financed by
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