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Theater / Re: Theater
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Antelope Valley College has a great Theatre Program, and I studied acting there for a couple of years, it is not to the extent of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, but one of my teachers was Gary Bolen, and we studied Stanislavski, and Meisner, and Uta Hagen, etc. And AVC had a lot of wonderful teachers on a lot of subjects, I was hungry to learn and it was a great school.
I studied acting, and writing, and business, and psychology, and film, it was a great school. And I studied Euclidean Geometry that was taught by a magician from the Magic Castle in Hollywood, Mr Thompson, it was great. You get out of it what you put in, Abraham Lincoln educated himself because he was hungry to learn and so he read books. I was lucky to have books, plus I had great teachers.
I loved my time at Antelope Valley College.
In my first acting class were were supposed to do something private on stage as though we were the only one in the room. I brought in a shaving stand and I shaved in class in front of the other students, and I did it as though I was alone at home. It was a good exercise. But, then here is when it got fun, the person to do a scene after me was a professional cheer leader for the Raiders and she played the song "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC and she did a strip tease and changed clothes in front of us as though she was dancing and changing clothes at home in her room, it was beautiful, and I was hooked as an acting student. I had some great classes and great teachers.
My History Teacher teaches at Columbia University in New York now, and my Film Teacher teaches in Missouri at a University there.
Gary Bolen was in a movie with Liv Tyler who is Steven Tyler's daughter. "Empire Records." Gary is a great teacher. He was born and raised here in Orange County and worked at Disneyland when he was young.
I still recommend the AADA after AVC, it will be good for the Youth to travel to New York to study. There is Broadway, and Ballet, and the Metropolitan Opera, and the Russian Tea Room, and Little Italy, and China Town, and I am sure New York is great. I will go explore New York eventually. The students are lucky to still have the AADA in New York.
Salute,
Tony V.
I studied acting, and writing, and business, and psychology, and film, it was a great school. And I studied Euclidean Geometry that was taught by a magician from the Magic Castle in Hollywood, Mr Thompson, it was great. You get out of it what you put in, Abraham Lincoln educated himself because he was hungry to learn and so he read books. I was lucky to have books, plus I had great teachers.
I loved my time at Antelope Valley College.
In my first acting class were were supposed to do something private on stage as though we were the only one in the room. I brought in a shaving stand and I shaved in class in front of the other students, and I did it as though I was alone at home. It was a good exercise. But, then here is when it got fun, the person to do a scene after me was a professional cheer leader for the Raiders and she played the song "You Shook Me All Night Long" by AC/DC and she did a strip tease and changed clothes in front of us as though she was dancing and changing clothes at home in her room, it was beautiful, and I was hooked as an acting student. I had some great classes and great teachers.
My History Teacher teaches at Columbia University in New York now, and my Film Teacher teaches in Missouri at a University there.
Gary Bolen was in a movie with Liv Tyler who is Steven Tyler's daughter. "Empire Records." Gary is a great teacher. He was born and raised here in Orange County and worked at Disneyland when he was young.
I still recommend the AADA after AVC, it will be good for the Youth to travel to New York to study. There is Broadway, and Ballet, and the Metropolitan Opera, and the Russian Tea Room, and Little Italy, and China Town, and I am sure New York is great. I will go explore New York eventually. The students are lucky to still have the AADA in New York.
Salute,
Tony V.