Idyllwild Arts Academy's eleventh-grade Theatre major Aurora Winger didn't exactly portray Ophelia when her department staged its “devised Hamlet" during her freshman year. Who’s There—a Reimagining of Hamlet was a creative adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy that split in two both…
Greetings from Idyllwild, For many of us, November begins a season of reflection and gratitude. These final weeks of the semester are also a special time for our students as they present their hard work to one another and our…
I recently traveled to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to attend a summit and to be in conversation with educators from around the world. Leaders from the Blue School (NY), Harvard’s Project Zero (Boston), and Reggio Emilio (Italy) among others,…
Pictured Above: A Red Cloud student makes "Midsummer" magic. Idyllwild Arts InterArts Chair Abbie Bosworth had been apprehensive about her devised A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Red Cloud School, on South Dakota’s Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation. Abbie didn’t know Pine…
"I wanted to play electric guitar. I mean, Slash played guitar!" Idyllwild Arts Academy Songwriting senior Caelen Perkins no longer dreams of shredding for Guns N' Roses. "My excuse is I was seven. A few years later the eighth-grade me…
Greetings, There is a chill in our mountain air which means that the school year is well underway. Students are planning for their first performances and exhibits and our Enrollment Management team is already recruiting for next year’s class. It…
Michelle Do, the Arts Enterprise Laboratory intern at Idyllwild Arts, spoke rapidly, like someone with much to say who knows precisely how to express it. "I love playing the piano against that wall-of-sound background that twentieth-century Russian composers were so adept…
EYE ON ALUMNI: Trevor Hall Trevor Hall admitted to being "wiped out" after the end of a tour of the Midwest and Northeast. Luckily, five weeks separate that tour's end from a ten-cities-in-twelve-days tour of Ireland, England, and Scandinavia. It's the…
Sunlight Sofia Tellez Marquez didn't understand when asked if she felt she'd drawn the short straw. The expression probably isn't used in Mexico, and she comes from Torreón, in the state of Coahuila. Sofia had been asked to learn the…
