The finale of the Florence Center Spring 2015 semester happened April 30 at Notte Bianca, an annual all-night celebration through the streets of Florence which drew 110,000 tourists from around the world.
, the epicenter of Florentine and Renaissance history.
Accademia Europea di Firenze, host to ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Florence Center, is the only school in Italy offering semester programs to performing arts majors. Courses were developed by ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ and AEF to empower ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s performing artists to spend a semester in Florence, to get international performance and networking experiences and to continue acquiring the necessary credits to move forward toward an on-time graduation.
The spring semester has come to a close and ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ students delivered another semester of performances with international classmates from both Italy and across the globe. The highlights included ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ dancer Katie Baker performing with classmates from France, Brazil, and Italy while Higgins, Mitchell and their Italian classmates performed in a jazz quintet.