Broadway's Gabriel Barre confirmed for YES Academy - Bangkok Thailand
Broadway's Gabriel Barre confirmed for YES Academy - Bangkok Thailand
#1Broadway's Gabriel Barre confirmed for YES Academy - Bangkok Thailand
Posted: 3/3/11 at 7:49pm
GABRIEL BARRE CONFIRMED TO TEACH AT YES ACADEMY BANGKOK
YES Academy - Bangkok, Thailand Mar/Apr 2011
YES stands for ‘Youth Excellence on Stage’. Over 18 years experience in cultural engagement and education programs in over 100 nations ranging from Afghanistan and Iraq to Venezuela and Burma. Our mission is to reach out to youth in nations emerging from conflict or isolation with professional level training in music, dance and theater with a focus on those genres unique to the American experience, Jazz, Broadway and Hip Hop as well as classical art forms such as string orchestra, piano, voice and ballet.
In addition, we provide intensive teacher training and donate music scores, methods, instruments and dance and theater supplies to all our project partners.
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After the success of our April 2010 and October 2009 YES Academy programs, we are back with a an expanded program of Jazz, Broadway Musicals, Hip Hop Dance, Piano, Chamber Music and String Orchestra!
Plus, we are going even more international with participants from ever more countries: Nepal, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Pakistan.
From March 26 to April 4, we will be bringing together Thailand most talented youth to study these unique American genres. This program is for everyone in Thailand: North, South, East, West and the tuition is again completely free of charge thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, the U.S. Embassy and Rangsit University. The YES Academy will culminate in gala concerts of Hip Hop Dance, Broadway, Jazz and Classical music by the students and faculty on April 3 and 4 at Centerpoint Playhouse, Central World.
Your YES Academy teachers are recruited from America’s finest Universities and Institution: St Louis Symphony Orchestra, HaviKoro Breakdancers, Theater Under the Stars of Houston. University of Northern Colorado and Eastern Carolina University. We are pleased to partner with Rangsit University and to continue to build artistic bridges between the United States and Thailand and the rest of Asia.
New in 2011!
Longer! – our program will run for full 10 days for more learning, more rehearsal and preparation time and more fun with new friends.
More music, more dance, more theater! We are adding new artist teachers to the following programs:
Hip Hop and Break Dance with Rick Camargo is back and being joined by Chris Thomas (YungChris), also of HaviKoro Break Dancers
String Orchestra: We will have two U.S. experts this year, adding Viola with Dr. Greg Hurley of Eastern Carolina University. Plus the return of Khun Marc, Violinist of the St Louis Symphony Orchestra.
String Pedagogy (Teaching): We will also offer teacher training in American string methods to interested string teachers!
Broadway Musical Theater: Two new additional to the faculty: Dr. Paul Meers, Musical Direction and Rick Camargo, Broadway Dance (we are stealing him from Hip Hop for a few hours each day). This Academy we will be studying excerpts from ‘Guys and Dolls’ (The Hot Box Girls, Luck Be a Lady Tonight, Sit Down You’re Rocking the Boat, Adelaide’s Lament and more) and Michael Parks is putting together a ‘Motown Review’
Piano: Its official, piano is part of the YES Thailand program. We are adding a half-day program daily from 2 to 6pm taught by Director, John Ferguson with a focus on solo piano repertoire, American composers and genres (Ragtime, Gershwin, New Music) and Chamber Music with Strings.
The YES Academy concept was developed by American Voices, a NGO based in Houston, Texas with offices in Thailand. The project is led by Executive Director, John Ferguson in cooperation with the Rangsit University as represented by Dr. Denny Euprasert. Other YES Academy programs take place annually in Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and Jordan.
www.americanvoices.org / www.yesacademy.info
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www.YESAcademy.info -- YES ‘Youth Excellence on Stage’. Over 17 years of cultural engagement & education programs in over 100 nations ranging from Afghanistan and Iraq to Venezuela and Burma. Our mission is to reach out to youth in nations emerging from conflict or isolation with professional level training in music, dance and theater.
#2Broadway's Gabriel Barre confirmed for YES Academy - Bangkok Thailand
Posted: 3/3/11 at 7:57pmVery Nice! I spent lots of time in Thailand when I lived in South East Asia...when I missed home I would spend a weekend in Bangkok. Just a heads up....don't even attempt to stage a production of "The King and I" it is forbidden in Thailand. They did a production of it in Singapore and in the Playbill it even stated this. Any tour guide is happy to share this information with you if asked. YES, I asked when I was at the Palace and saw a picture of the King the show is based on.
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2Broadway's Gabriel Barre confirmed for YES Academy - Bangkok Thailand
Posted: 3/3/11 at 8:15pm
Yeah.. I've been here in Bangkok for almost 3 years now so I know that deal.
At first I was shocked because why wouldn't they want to embrace one of the most beautiful love stories ever put to music??
But after being in the country for a while, you start to begin to understand the relationship between the Thai people and their King. The musical shows the King in moments of weakness. This is not simply a case of censorship as it would appear on the surface, but the Thai people truly love their King and they simply just don't want to see this.
Once you understand the culture.. it makes sense.
You can still find bootleg copies of the movie (both the musical and the awful Jodi Foster drama) on the street all over Bangkok.
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