Starts February 18, 2013
Duration 10 days, from 5.30 P.M. to 8.00 P.M.
Admission for this workshop is FREE, audition required
Registration is now closed
Venue Ateliers '89, Dominicanessenstraat 34
Workshop instructor Nathalie Biermanns & Tica Giel
This is a dynamic film-acting workshop not only designed to enhance student acting skills, but also give them a unique opportunity to compete for the main role of AVI’s new movie.
This exclusive ten-day event introduces students to the fundamentals of screen acting through practical demonstrations, vocal training exercises, and various improvisational routines. The workshop also features several intensive scene-study sessions where the students will be performing scenes from films alongside his/her fellow actors. See a detailed program schedule: Screen Acting.
Meet your Instructors
Nathalie Biermanns actress, TV-host, producer and former Miss World Aruba. Nathalie graduated from the Theater Drama Academy in Amsterdam. During and after her studies she did several theater, television productions and TV ads in Holland. In 2011 the ambitious Nathalie decided together with her husband to move to Los Angeles to expand their success. In Los Angeles she starred in two feature films 'Eel' and 'Down Home Alien Blues'. Nathalie is a member of the MiMoDa Gruppa a physical theater company with monthly performances. IMDb
Tica Giel is Aruba’s soprano singer, having graduated as teacher of ‘General Music Education’ at the Pedagogical Academy of Music in Alkmaar, The Netherlands. She also studied Opera at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. Tica has more than 29 years of exeriencie and given numerous presentations in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Bonaire, and Curaçao. The most operatic role performed by Tica was ‘Die Zauberflöte’ of Mozart. Auditions
Auditions will be held on Sunday, February 17, 2013, from 9.00 A.M.
Venue Ateliers '89, Dominicanessenstraat 34
One’s audition will consist of a cappella performance for judges, as well as the presentation of a monologue. 30 participants will be selected to attend the workshops for free. A final presentation will be held after the workshop to selected the main characters and supporting actors.
The songs that can be used for audition with are:
- Fo'i dia mi a mira bo [click to listen]
- Abo so [click to listen]
- Mi'n sa [click to listen]
- Na mi un chens [click to listen]
Monologue: click here to download
Sign up even if you cannot sing, act or dance.
We've got plenty of roles, and there is something for everyone.
The more you try, the more you learn.
- Juan Francisco Pardo, Director of 'Abo So'.