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In the first year of training, student actors and student directors train alongside. In the second and third years of training the training focuses more on their separate disciplines. The directors programme is founded upon need for student director and student actor to develop their skills alongside each other, so that in their second and third year, after a full first year of training alongside the actors, our student directors focus on their specialization. Lessons are full time, Monday to Friday from 10 am until 5pm, not including class and rehearsal preparation time which includes the evening and weekends.

The school does not allow its students to undertake professional engagements during their training.

FIRST YEAR
The first year focuses on the physical side to the actors work a san instrument of expression. The course focuses on the fundamental skills of Movement, Voice and Acting and Dance, singing and diction. During this period there are also moments of intense workshops and laboratory work focusing on these disciplines.

SECOND YEAR
Acting
Nel secondo anno comincia lo studio sul personaggio e la drammaturgia attraverso un lavoro di analisi e costruzione nell'ambito delle materie di base. All'interno del calendario saranno inoltre programmati seminari intensivi con docenti italiani e stranieri al fine di conoscere differenti metodologie; parallelamente proseguono le materie di Danza, Canto, Dizione.
Directing
The student directors, as well as training alongside the student actors also begin practically applying their skills to scenes and texts under the guidance of the teaching staff. Student directors also follow the Project Scriba, which offers through practical exercises a way of understanding the structure of a text from its writing to its staging.

THIRD YEAR
Acting
The third year is all about staging. The student actors have the opportrunbity to wrok on several projects with Italian and non Italian directors in order to develop performance skills. They will appear in at least two productions before a public and participate in an intense workshop on cinema. The work undertaken in their first two years of study, has now become a personal process which will take them into the profession.
Directing
The student directors follow the third year productions as assistant director. They also direct their own project at the end of their training with the third year actors. There may also be opportunities for them to direct video projects of a given screenplay.

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School Hours
The school timetable runs from Monday to Friday from 10am until 5pm not including class and rehearsal preparation.
Preparation time for projects in the second and third year is greater and requires student to work beyond the normal school timetable.
The school does not allow its students to undertake professional engagements during their training.
First and second year projects are not open to the public except special circumstances.
There is no age limit for application but selections made on the basis of forming a group dynamic.