Australian Academy of Dramatic Art
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Former names
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Australian Academy of Dramatic Art (1983-2013) |
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| Type | Subsidiary |
| Established | 1983 |
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Parent institution
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Australian Institute of Music |
| Location |
Sydney CBD, New South Wales, Australia Coordinates: 33°52′24″S 151°12′29″E / 33.87333°S 151.20806°E |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | Official website |
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The Australian Institute of Music - Dramatic Arts (AIMDA, formerly known as the Australian Academy of Dramatic Art (AADA)) is a drama school in Sydney, Australia. It offers a degree in acting and theatre-making as a department of the Australian Institute of Music (AIM). Students receive professional actor training alongside classes in directing, design, technical theatre, and creative and critical thinking. Students learn the craft of acting with the creative insight of the creator and producer. Graduates have a range of skills to take full advantage of opportunities in today’s arts and entertainment industry. With a unique teaching program, high-calibre teaching staff, professional standard student productions, and a strong track record of graduate employment, AIM Dramatic Arts is producing a new generation of Australian stage and screen professionals.
The Australian Academy of Dramatic Art (AADA) was established in 1983. In 2006, AADA became a department of the Australian Institute of Music (AIM), and was rebranded as Dramatic Arts in 2013. In 1999, the school was bought by Gillian Levett and became the first drama school in New South Wales to gain State vocational education accreditation. From 2007, Andrew Davidson was the Head of the School, and in 2013 Peta Downes took over as Head of Dramatic Arts.
In 2007, consultation with the theatre industry began to create a unique, university-level qualification. The growing independent theatre scene in Sydney and other Australian capitals was now to be supported by a custom-built training in contemporary theatre practice, "a unique education for the Actor / Creator / Producer". The school took the baton from the University of Western Sydney's now-defunct Theatre Nepean, a training program that gave the Australian performing arts sector over a decade of graduates who are all-round theatre makers. In 2009, the department accepted its first intake of students in the new Bachelor of Performance degree.
The Bachelor of Performance is a six-trimester degree program intended to train the Actor / Creator / Producer. It is structured as follows:
Public and in-house performances are scheduled each trimester. A 'discovery play' and devised work are early explorations of a full-length script and a new piece of physical theatre. A contemporary text is the first season of public performances, followed by the challenge of a classic text. Final year students develop new short works, and they take roles onstage and off in the graduating company production.
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