Talk:National Institute of Dramatic Art

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The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA)

About NIDA

NIDA provides excellence in training for entertainment professionals including; full-time courses, short courses and corporate performance coaching. The award winning theatre complex hosts in-house and commercial productions. NIDA houses Australia's largest performing arts library and a broad range of theatre resources and archives.

Play productions are NIDA's most important teaching activity. Actors in particular learn by repetition, by performing a role many times in the theatre before different audiences. Once they have acquired the basic skills, students in the other courses learn by taking on the kind of responsibilities they will be faced with in the industry.

All NIDA plays are a microcosm of the industry, with every element of the production from lighting and set construction to costumes and properties being produced by the students.

The NIDA Complex

In April 2002 the new NIDA complex was opened. The NIDA complex’s facilities include: -	A 725-seat proscenium arch style theatre with stalls, two galleries, a large stage, fly tower and orchestra pit (Parade Theatre) -	A self-contained flexible studio theatre, seating 155, with a wrap-around mezzanine and steeply raked seating (Parade Playhouse, formally the NIDA Theatre) -	Two intimate 80-120 seat spaces with flexible seating arrangement (Parade Studio and Space) -	The Reg Grundy Studio for film and television training and production -	A new library to accommodate NIDA's expanding theatre and media collection of books, videos, CD's, audio-visuals and multi-media -	New rehearsal rooms for training, outside hire, and NIDA's Corporate Performance and Open Program courses. -	A foyer space for formal occasions such as product launches, conferences, and sit-down dinners for 300 people. -	Scenery, Properties and Costume workshops for manufacturing and maintaining production elements of NIDA productions -	Lighting and Sound studios for the training of students

Student Life

Each course is dependent on all the others. Actors, stage managers, designers, costume makers, crafts people, and people who look after the audience, are all part of an interdependent team. The creative and professional dynamics of that team is the core of good theatre. Play productions are NIDA's most important teaching activity, with around 25 plays being produced at NIDA each year.

Each course is centred on training practitioners for work in a demanding and unpredictable industry. Each day provides students with a structured series of activities, which balance the acquisition of vocational skills with artistic excellence.

All the full-time courses are conducted in two modes. The first, the Teaching Program, consists of formal class work, practical instruction, seminars and research, often supplemented by periods of secondment in the industry. As part of the teaching program, students attend formal classes, seminars and/or discussion groups each morning.

The second mode, the Production Program provides practical learning experiences. Each student is given the opportunity to practice the intellectual, imaginative and technical skills acquired in the Teaching Program, working in the performance, design, manufacture or management of productions for presentation to the general public. Production work involves afternoon, night and weekend rehearsals or performances.

The NIDA School Year consists of three terms of 11 - 16 weeks. Courses usually commence in early February and end in mid-November.

Full-Time Courses

Full-time courses at NIDA include: -	Acting					- Directing -	Design					- Voice Studies -	Production				- Movement Studies -	Production Crafts – Costumes		- Scenery Construction -	Production Crafts – Properties

Careers in the Entertainment Industry

Graduates of the NIDA full-time courses go on to work in a range of careers, in industries including film, theatre, television, opera, dance, animation, puppetry and events.

Career options for the NIDA graduate include: -	Actor 					- Movement Coach -	Voice-over artist 			- Voice Coach -	Performance Artist 			- Choreographer -	Stage Manager 				- Director -	Production Designer 			- Scenery Maker -	Set Designer 				- Special Effects Technician -	Costume Designer 			- Properties Maker -	Lighting Designer 			- Scenic Artist -	Sound Designer 				- Costume Maker

NIDA courses are professionally effective and there is a high rate of employment of graduates in the expanding Australian and international arts entertainment industry.

Notable graduates from NIDA include: Mel Gibson, Baz Luhrmann, Judy Davis, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Colin Friels, Steve Bisley, Tom Burlinson, Dennis Olsen and Rachel Szalay.

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Too much detail in Awards section
I've just done a bit of a tidy and update, but there's plenty of room for improvement still. I was in two minds as to whether to remove the entire Awards section, which seems superfluous as most of them relate to listed alumni and just adds to clutter that I don't think is particularly useful in an article about the institution. Thoughts, anyone? Laterthanyouthink (talk) 10:13, 15 December 2021 (UTC)