BAI Performing Arts Training Center
BAI Bizkaiko Antzerki Ikastegia - Centro de Formación Escénica BAI
TypeDrama school
Established1996
ChairmanFer Montoya
PrincipalFer Montoya
Location
Bilbao
,
Spain
CampusUrban
Websitebai-bai.net

The BAI Performing Arts Training Center or BAI Stage Training Center (Basque: BAI Bizkaiko Antzerki Ikastegia; Spanish: Centro de Formación Escénica BAI) is a drama school or drama institution in Bilbao, Spain.[1][2]

Founded in 1996, it is headquartered in Barakaldo and since 2006 it also has an additional center in Bilbao.

The school has given students such as the Goya Award, Feroz Award, CEC Award and Union of Basque Actors and Actresses Award winner Urko Olazabal or the Goya Award winner María Cerezuela.[3][4]

History

The BAI Performing Arts Training Center was created in 1996.[1][5] Since then, more than two thousand students have passed through its studies, courses, and training in interpretation, dance, and circus arts.[6][2][7][8]

The BAI Performing Arts Training Center offers advanced studies in dramatic art and interpretation in four years, with the possibility of specializing in stage direction.[9] In addition to higher studies, it also offers theater, script and directing studies.[10] The school offers early training in performing arts (8–12 years), youth training (12–16 years), advanced youth training (16–18 years) and higher professional university training (+18 years).

In 2006, the BAI school opened an additional center in Bilbao, where it also offers training in performing arts. The BAI center also creates and promotes theatrical productions, both its own and those of others, in collaboration with different theaters such as the Barakaldo Theatre or the Arriaga Theatre.[11]

The current director of the BAI Stage Training Center is Fer Montoya,[12] actor and theater educator, also a professor at the Dantzerti Higher School of Dramatic Art and Dance.[13]

Among the teachers at the school are Olatz Gorrotxategi, Joseba Lazkano, Laura Iturregi, ...[14][15]

ACT International Festival

In 2004 BAI created the ACT Festival, the International Festival for Emerging Performing Artists. Its aim is to achieve recognition for the work of drama schools and theater training centers, and to exchange information, methods and experiences with colleagues from other countries.[16]

The ACT International Festival aims to promote international emerging artists who, with their innovative proposals, are defining the scene of the future. For about four days, the festival holds living arts, attending shows, courses, workshops or reflection sessions in Bilbao and Barakaldo.[17][18][19]

Notable alumni

See also

References

  1. 1 2 SA, Baigorri Argitaletxea (2016-05-23). "BAI, two decades training creative actors in Biscay and the Basque Country". GARA (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  2. 1 2 efe (2012-02-02). "BAI celebrates its 15 years, in which it has trained 2,000 artists". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  3. ↑ "BAI Eskola: "Esta semana cumplíamos 25 años y que Urko y María hayan ganado el Goya ha sido como un regalo"". EITB (in Spanish). 2022-02-14. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  4. ↑ "Urko Olazabal: "La nominación supone el premio al trabajo de toda una vida"". EITB (in Spanish). 2022-02-10. Retrieved 2023-03-12.
  5. ↑ "La escuela de teatro expone 15 años de atrezo". Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  6. ↑ "Fer Montoya and Joseba Lazkano, from BAI: "We do not understand why the Basque Government does not make Dramatic Art studies official"". Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  7. ↑ "El Centro de Formación Escénica BAI presenta una versión de Hamlet en títeres en el Teatro Barakaldo". Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  8. ↑ Barakaldo, M. A. Pardo | (2022-05-01). "La escuela BAI forja lo mejor de la escena desde Barakaldo". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  9. ↑ "La escuela de artes escénicas Bizkaiko Antzerki Ikastegia abre el periodo de matriculación". www.kulturklik.euskadi.eus (in Spanish). 2017-03-31. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  10. ↑ "La Escuela de Teatro de Barakaldo abre su matrícula a profesionales y aficionados". El Correo (in European Spanish). 2013-09-18. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  11. ↑ Correo, El (2022-04-21). ""Caricias"". agenda.elcorreo.com (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  12. ↑ Abajo, Teresa (2019-02-26). "Lo que se construye en la "carpintería teatral"". El Correo (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  13. ↑ "Dantzerti Higher School of Dramatic Art and Dance - Fer Montoya".
  14. ↑ "Olatz Gorrotxategi: "El teatro documento trabaja desde la verdad"". www.elsaltodiario.com. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  15. ↑ Pardo, Miguel A. (2018-02-16). "Olatz Gorrotxategi, maestra del drama y la escena". Deia (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  16. ↑ "Las escuelas de teatro europeas se exhiben en el ACT". El País (in Spanish). 2005-05-21. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  17. ↑ "ACT Festival – Festival Internacional de Escena Emergente". ACT Festival. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  18. ↑ López, Sonsoles Zubeldia (2012-05-23). "Nuevos creadores, a escena". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  19. ↑ Cubillo, Igor (2006-05-27). "El tercer festival ACT mostrará la labor de 12 centros de arte dramático y danza". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2023-03-04.

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