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The Dell'Arte International School has attracted students from
all over the world  since it opened its doors in 1975.

    What will you find at Dell'Arte International?

• Intense physical training to develop the expressive capabilities of the actor
• the study of movement, mask, clown, melodrama,  commedia, and dynamic theatre-making
• an extraordinary location of natural beauty and inspiration
• an outstanding faculty of professional artists and teachers
• a dedication to community interaction

We offer an MFA in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre . The three-year MFA program runs concurrently with our one-year certificate-granting Professional Training Program (PTP).  Both are in session from October till mid-June.

We train actors to be responsive and spontaneous with their imaginations, their minds and their bodies. We take the actor beyond the role of interpreter of a director's vision or playwright's words (the Actor/Interpreter); at Dell'Arte, the actor is fundamental to the creation of theatre (the Actor/Creator).

"My Great Compelling is to create work for the theatre that becomes more than the ordinary comedies and tragedies of our lives... for a theatre capable of plunging people into a more profound reality than this world offers... meaning a dimensional reality, a poetic realm that includes Hope. Hope, not of platitudes and anecdotal situations, but Hope evidenced by the profound scope of vision, and intent to manifest/realize, through the transformational actor, a Character that demonstrates the fierce passion to engage the act of life in the Metaphysical Space of the stage."

-Ronlin Foreman, Director of Pedagogical Studies,
in an email to School Director Joan Schirle

There is a dialogue happening at Dell'Arte International, that isn't happening anywhere else. A dialogue that has been on-going for 30 years and is now codified into the only Master of Fine Arts in Ensemble-Based Physical Theatre in the United States. We have developed an approach to actor-training that is built on 30 years of research while training passionate performers from around the world. Our school exists side by side with the Dell'Arte Company, a physical theatre company that has been at the forefront of the ensemble movement for three decades. Come join the dialogue and make a mark.

CLICK on FAQ'S under "About Dell'Arte"  for lots more info about our school and company.....