for kids
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Every year during the summer weeks, the Accademia Teatro Dimitri offers courses for children and teens, designed and created by professional actors with extensive experience in the field. Through many diverse performing arts disciplines, such as theatre, dance, singing, rhythm, clowning, and juggling, the young actors come to discover the world of theatre and circus in the unique and quite magical setting of the “World of Dimitri” in Verscio.
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When young people of all ages learn to get on stage and “get in character”, the work contributes to the harmonious growth and development of their identities, through activities full of sensorial and relational stimuli, as well as fun. Development of motor skills, perception of space, a sense of rhythm and musicality, concentration, knowledge, and self-confidence: all of these skills are stimulated through theatrical activities.
This is also the opinion of teachers such as Maria Fitzi, who for more than 10 years has been organizing courses for children and confirms the value of this experience: “I have been working with children in the summer courses of the Accademia Teatro Dimitri for several years now. Each time we develop stories and each time it is a wonderful surprise to see how the children find collaboration and trust between them that allows us to create together without fear. The children develop so many ideas that one could gather them to create a full evening-performance! The courses give everyone the possibility to feel responsible for the story that is born, and I think that is important for their identity.”
The children participating in the courses may take advantage of a free entry to the shows of the Teatro Dimitri, while parents can buy tickets with a 20% discount.
Important: The individual participant will personally be responsible for their food and lodging. Children are under adult supervision only during the hours of the course: it is therefore necessary that they are otherwise accompanied by a responsible person.
Nr. 1 Clown, mime and theatre 2020
20.–24.07.2020
Come and discover theatre and the world of the clown? Through various exercises with apparatuses, ropes, hats, and more, we will work on coordination, balance, agility, and physical flexibility. We will play together by awakening the sensitivity to and perception of space, of different roles, of physical sensations, and of emotions. To come together and combine everything into small individual and group numbers, which will spontaneously take shape through theatrical improvisation.
Schedule: 9.00-12.15
CHF CHF 290.-.—
Year: 7-12
Orit Guttman
Orit Guttman graduated from the Accademia Teatro Dimitri in 1994 and is now an actress, mime, and clown. She has been working for 23 years as a teacher in the summer courses of the Accademia Teatro Dimitri and, during the school year, she works in other educational centers, in particular in several after-school courses in Ticino and for the Steiner School.
Nr. 2 Circus 2020
20.–24.07.2020
Schedule: 9.00-12.15
CHF CHF 290.-.—
Year: 7-12
Christa Barrett
Nr. 3 Variété 2020
27.–31.07.2020
Schedule: 9am–4pm
bring packed lunch
CHF 430.—
Year: 9–15
Ann Klemann, Anna Manz
Nr. 4 Jonglage and acrobatics 2020
03.–07.08.2020
Schedule: 9.00-12.15
CHF CHF 290.-.—
Year: 7-9
Max Haverkamp
Nr. 5 Acrobatics 2020
03.–07.08.2020
Schedule: 13.45-17.00
CHF CHF 290.-.—
Year: 10-13
Annette Fiaschi
Nr. 6 Theatre 2020
03.–07.08.2020
Schedule: 9.00-12.15
CHF CHF 290.-.—
Year: 7-12
Daniele Bianco
Nr. 7 Circus 2020
10.–14.08.2020
Schedule: 9.00-12.00/13.30-15.30
CHF CHF 290.-.—
Year: 7-12
Jean-David Lehnherr
Nr. 8 Dance 2020
10.–14.08.2020
Schedule: 9.00-12.15
CHF CHF 290.—
Year: 7-12
Anais Kauer
General informations and Arranging accomodation
Accademia Teatro Dimitri
Stradòn 28, 6653 Verscio (CH)
E: corsi.accademiadimitri@supsi.ch
T: +41 (0)58 666 67 50


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