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AVPA Students win awards at STANJ

At a recent Morris County School of Technology's board meeting, Irene Fitzpatrick, theater arts instructor (center) with sophomores Anastacia Noce from Lincoln Park and Nicholas Harney from Jefferson received recognition for their wins at the annual Speech & Theater Association Secondary School Theater Festival earlier this year. Anastacia played Andromache and Nicholas played Talthybios in the winning performance of The Trojan Woman.

 

AVPA Guest Artist

Denville – The Academy for Visual & Performing Arts located at the Morris County School of Technology has a variety of professional artists lined up to enrich their students’ art education. This year The Academy for Visual & Performing Arts has obtained for the 5th year an Interdisciplinary Artist-In-Education grant from the NJ State Council on the Arts, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. A Technical Theatre Residency in Production & Lighting Design will be taught by returning Guest Artist, Rachel Budin of Ramapo College and The Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Christian Von Howard, of Rutgers University & The Christian Von Howard Project will bring a Dance Residency that includes Cultural Dance, Jazz Technique and Modern Dance in the Ailey tradition. In Multimedia, David Landau of Farleigh Dickenson University will return as the Guest Artist in a Video Production Residency. In addition to the Artist-In-Education grant guest artists, the District is sponsoring additional visiting master teachers. Lynne Grossman is teaching master classes in ballet to all levels of dance students. Lynne has served on the faculties of South Carolina Governor1s School for the Arts, and The University of Texas at Austin. She was a soloist with the Israel Ballet, Garden State Ballet, Austin Ballet Theatre and performed over 300 shows at Radio City Music Hall. Jeri Beaumont, R.D. Dietician, Nutritionist and Montclair State Ballet Faculty, and a former soloist with Garden State Ballet and Princeton Ballet, is teaching Nutrition for Dancers Seminar for the 9th grade dancers in November and December and ballet classes this spring. Theatre-arts guests will bring workshops in Shakespeare, set-design and costuming. Multimedia artist, Scott Furman of Montclair State University, will teach a series of workshops in 2-D and 3-D design, animation applications and video post-production techniques The Academy for Visual & Performing Arts students have fall, winter and spring performing seasons in dance and drama as well as multimedia gallery showings and film festivals. The public is encouraged to attend all events held at the Morris County School of Technology located at 400 East Main Street, Denville. The theatre arts students have won prestigious awards at the Speech & Theatre Association of NJ (STANJ) competitions in dramatic arts. The dance students have garnered the highest citations for excellence at NJ’s State Teen Arts festivals for student choreography and performance