IAB Participates in International Theatre Project – Make A Move

Europe gets an arts incubator: The international theater project “Make a Move” The exciting international project “Make a Move” was launched in Rijeka’s RiHub Cultural Centre this Friday, 19th October. “Make a Move” is an Art Incubator for contemporary European non-institutionalised theatre which will bring together non-institutionalised theater organizations and artists from Croatia, Ireland, Spain, […]

IAB former MA student interviewed by StagePool

IAB Alumni Freya Treutmann has been protagonist of a long video interview with StagePool, Northern Europe’s largest audition and casting portal for all kinds of workers in the cultural and entertainment industry and official partner of Spotlight Network. Freya tells her story as a successful young artist and , in the first part of the […]

IAB Delegates at the EASTAP Conference in Paris

Two IAB Lecturers will be speakers at the International Conference (25th-27th October 2018) in Paris, organised by EASTP – European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance, the main European association in the field. The purpose of EASTAP is to bring together in Europe scholars, artists, performance makers and stakeholders in order to encourage […]

Meet guest lecturer Aase Wallberg

Aase is a regular visitor to the IAB and has been bringing students from Sweden to experience IAB classes for some years. She is currently a guest lecturer teaching Pure Mattox Jazz. Aase attended the University of Dance in Sweden (now it’s called DOCH) from 1993-96. She also has a ”folk-high-school-teacher” diploma from the university […]

IAB as jury at Choreoscope Festival

IAB teaching staff Jennifer Blake, Head of MA Dance Programme Leader, and Armando Rotondi, Associate Professor in performance Theory and MA Acting Programme Leader, are members of the jury of the prominent Choreoscope – Barcelona International Dance Film Festival, directed by loran Janos and held at the Cinema Malda and Filmoteca de Catalunya. The third […]

Meet Pete Gallagher and Michael England

We are delighted to welcome two highly experienced visiting lecturers – Pete Gallagher and Michael England, who have just joined the musical theatre faculty for a few weeks, to work with level 6 MT students in their production of the Addams Family. Pete Gallagher is a widely experienced director, writer and performer, working for over […]

Sitges Film Festival – live stream to press conferences

You can listen to various press conferences at Sitges Film Festival 2018 by using one of the links below. Standar embed <iframe width=”854″ height=”480″ src=”https://streamingbarcelona.com/clientes/sitges/” frameborder=”0″ allow=”autoplay; encrypted-media” allowfullscreen></iframe> Embed responsive <div style=”position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 0px; height: 0px; margin: 0 auto;” > <iframe style=”position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; […]

Guest Professionals for the Merce Cunningham Centennial Workshop at IAB

For the Official Merce Cunningham Centennial Workshop (1-6 October), IAB is pleased to host many professional guests coming from prominent institutions in the field of performing arts: choreographer Trevor Carslon, member of the MErce Cunningham Trust, Assistant of Cunningham and Director of Thorus Arts (Barcelona); Loránd János, director of Choreoscope – Barcelona International Dance Film […]

Ophelia in the Dog Days: a Masterclass at the MA Acting with Emanuele Tirelli

IAB is very pleased to host a Masterclass with prominent playwright and theatre practitioner Emanuele Tirelli, with our MA Acting students on the 3rd, 4th & 5th of October 2018. The Masterclass will be based on Tirell’s play Ophelia in the Dog Days, published by navarra Editore and produced for the stage by Caracò Teatro, […]

IAB and Merce Cunningham festival

Barcelona international dance film festival Choreoscope, the Institute of Arts Barcelona, Plató del Cinema, and students from Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya and Taller de Músics, will host a workshop with Trevor Carlson using the four processes Cunningham highlighted in his text “Four Events that Have Led to Large Discoveries” (1-6 October). IAB will […]

Meet Guest Director Luke Fredericks

The first term of the year has brought new adventurous productions to the IAB. Among those are the wonderful musicals The Drowsy Chaperone and Merrily We Roll Along, both directed by Luke Fredericks. Our guest director has guided the students through the working of a professional production. Luke’s directing credits include BAT BOY: THE MUSICAL […]

Cult Director Takashi Miike Shooting in Sitges

Renowned for its many festivals, one of which is the world´s premiere film festival for genre cinema, Sitges also serves as a location for international cinema makers. One of the Japan’s greatest directors, Takashi Miike (author of cults such as “Ichi the Killer”), has chosen to film his latest work in Sitges, using his stunning […]

Workshops with Wayne McGregor Dancer, Catarina Carvalho

The Institute of the Arts Barcelona was thrilled to welcome Wayne McGregor Dancer, Catarina Carvalho, into the studio in October 2016. The BA (Hons) Dance students participated in workshops throughout the week lead by the Company Wayne McGregor Dance Artist. After the week’s workshops Catarina Carvalho allowed the students to ask her a series of […]

IAB students to perform at 5th Global Union World Congress

A group of third year students and Master students will fly to Liverpool on Sunday 10th June, with lecturer and choreographer Valentina Temussi, to take part to an exiting project with the students from LJMU. They will all perform on the 17th of June for the opening ceremony of the Uniglobal 2018 conference directed by […]

Summer School Blog Article by Kass Foley

  The grand finale to our academic year is the IAB Summer School. Once a year for a week in July the IAB opens its doors to young performing arts students from all over the world. We are constantly surprised by how far people travel to spend time with us. We love meeting new young […]

Former IAB MA Acting Student appointed as Artist in Residence in Edinburgh

IAB is very pleased to announce that former MA student Freya Treutmann has been appointed as Artist in Residence at the Charioteer Theatre in Edinburgh with a performing arts project on “identity”. Charioteer Theatre is an International Theatre Company and a training centre founded in 2005 to build cross-cultural bridges and provide unique theatrical experiences […]

Former IAB MA Acting Students at the Dublin Fringe Festival

Former IAB MA Acting Students at the Dublin Fringe Festival IAB is very pleased to announce that former MA students Sinéad Brady, Caroline Galvis and Katie O’Byrne will be protagonists at the Dublin Fringe Festival, with the play “Free Roaming EU” written and performed by them and produced by their brand new theatre company “The […]

IAB collaborates on play to premier at Italys top theatre festival

We are pleased to announce that “Trilogy of Indignation” by Esteve Soler will be premiered in its first Italian version ever at the Teatro Festival Italia, the main and most prominent Theatre Festival of my Country, next week.   https://www.napoliteatrofestival.it/spettacolo/trilogia-dellindignazione-en/    Esteve Soler will be appointed this Saturday as IAB Honorary Fellow, and all the […]