ACA Academy Drama / Theatre Department
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Welcome to our Drama/ Theatre Department.
Theatron in Greek means “a place of seeing”.
A performance usually takes place on a stage area inside a theatre. Learning in the theatre can be done by using laughter, humour and playing. This motivates and reduces stress. Theatre is very important in children’s lives. Acting, dancing and singing are very beneficial to a young person’ s life.
Here are a few benefits for students of the arts:
- Theatre helps children speak in public with confidence.
- Talking and performing in front of audiences teaches a child volume, enunciation and inflection, improving self confidence and public speaking.
- Dramatic art develops a sense of self-confidence.
- Dramatic art develops a team mentality.
- Children tend to work as a team when they have a part in a play.
- Presentation from a child / person on stage requires confidence and courage. Their part matters and they learn to be responsible in a group setting.
- Dramatic art makes a child more active.
- Performing can also be good for physical activity. Dance choreographies, blocking during rehearsal, building sets, seriously gets a child moving.
- Learning lines in the theatre,blocking,keeping track of cues and lighting,use a lot of memorisation tricks to remember everything .These tricks stay with us forever to use in studies and our work environment .
- Memorization techniques are taught in the theater that facilitate the memorization of texts, lines, introductions. These techniques are useful for reading and working.
- Dramatic art improves the professionalism of a child / individual.
- By participating in the theater, children learn to support their colleagues, to respect them, to show enthusiasm and to work hard. These characteristics continue in their professional career.
- When children narrate, they are given the opportunity to develop their expression.
Meet our renowned teachers
Anne – Marie O ‘ Sullivan is a beautiful theatre workshop leader, drama club teacher, actor and facilitator, scenographer and theatre maker. She has toured the entirety of Italy and Sicily as a workshop facilitator teaching English through theatre.
As well as writing and directing programs for a theatre company and leading large groups in workshops, she has also lead intensive summer camps with students, running a variety of creative activities and final theatre shows. Shakespearian theatre, storytelling , mythology and traditional storytelling methods are her own personal interests.
Edit Engelmann was born in Germany. She completed a marketing degree. In the course of her professional career as marketing and communications manager with various national and international corporations, she travelled extensively and spent several years in European and non-European countries.
She is experienced in the onboarding processes in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and for US-based enterprises. Edit Engelmann has been working as a freelance author since 2010 and has published various books.
She has also worked as publisher of various anthologies, as well as the translator of a some books from Dutch and English into German.
Her experience provides the easiest and quickest manner in preparing for a job interview.