Marking Period 2
Joint Academy News or Events
New York, Broadway Field Trip: Students in Performing Arts areas, Choir, Musical ,and Drama Club attended a trip to New York in December. Students attended a "Making Music" Workshop with Broadway Classroom, where they worked with performers from the cast of Waitress to learn one of the songs from the show. They had a brief Q&A about working in the industry before heading to Ellen's Stardust Diner, home of the singing waitstaff. After lunch, student enjoyed a performance of Waitress.
In the Community: Academy students A'Niyah Bishop, Antonelly Reyes, Yasmira Dugan-Burton, Michael Wright & Dominic Roberts will be performed an exciting new rendition of the Nutcracker titled "The Nubian Nutcracker" at The Claridge A Radisson Hotel Celebrity Theater in Atlantic City
Eli Hernandez (Drama) volunteered through Cosmetology to help out with an event face painting.
CONGRATULATIONS to Shayla Carnuccio (Freshman) and Kirstin Dill (Drama Sophomore) for being selected as Red Hawks of the Month for January!
Freshmen
Q2 Freshmen Showcase: After their second rotation, the freshmen continue with their exploration of all areas of the Academy
Musical
Musical auditions were held in November and rehearsals have been in full swing. The cast and crew consists of students in all academies. Long hours have been put in learning the music, blocking, and dances. Even longer hours have been dedicated to building the "woods" that will become the set. Much thanks goes out to the staff that have lended a hand.
Join us Feb. 28-March 2 for performances to support the hard work of these students. Ticket information is available online at www.acitech.org and a special dinner event is being offered prior to the Friday night show for an additional cost.
Drama
Drama classes worked on performances of varied styles including monologues, scenes, poetry recitation, and musical theatre. Some students attended the Speech and Theatre Association of New Jersey's (STANJ) festival at Montclair State University in January. It was a new experience to the actors. Thirty schools from all over the state attended. Students were excited to see actor Gaten Mazzarato, star of the TV series "Stranger Things" and student at Pinelands Regional High School.
Nevaeh Torres made it to the Finals for her monologue and Mya Deberry represented ACIT in the group Improv Exercise.
Several Performing Arts students attended a Workshop with The Actors Connection, a New York theatre education company. The workshop was entitled Broadway:Launching Your Career from Your Phone where they learned about marketing strategies. The workshop was joined by producers of the upcoming new musical Be More Chill that will open this spring on Broadway.
Jecce Oldroyd won the Vans caption contest they did in the workshop and has won two tickets to attend the Broadway production in the Spring!
Drama and Vocal Cross-Curricular: For Drama's Musical Theatre Unit, Vocal students were assigned groups to coach. Ms. Chambers worked with her students on specific techniques so they could help their peers. The students loved joining together and learning from each other.
Vocal
Winter Concert:
Dance
ACIT
Dance Ensemble presents
Dancing With The Staff
Dancing With the Staff- On November 30th, the Acit Dance Ensemble held a showcase which showed hidden talents and skills of many teachers. Members of the Dance Ensemble choreographed dance pieces to perform with ACIT teachers & staff, with the purpose of donating raised funds to the winning teams charity of choice.
Thanks to all the students, staff members who made this event a success!
Congratulations to Mr. Camua's team for winning first place.
A portion of the event proceeds benefitted the World Wildlife Fund.
Senior Olivia Laymon will be performed in the Atlantic City Ballet's rendition of everyone's holiday favorite The Nutcracker on Friday & Saturday.
Just Right Productions in Atlantic City held auditions for THE NUBIAN NUTCRACKER.
ACIT Dance Academy students: Dominic Roberts, Antonelly Reyes, A'Nyah Bishop, Yasmira Dugan & Michael Wright were chosen as cast members. The students had the time of their life particpating in this culturally rich event.