Triple Threat Academy in Jakarta
March - June 2022
The Triple Threat Academy (TTA) was a 3 month intensive online capacity building program in collaboration with Jakarta Performing Arts Community (JPAC), US Embassy Jakarta, American Voices and the Arts Envoy Initiative of U.S. Department of State. Designed for young aspiring Indonesian artists, this program aimed to connect professional U.S. Broadway artist to mentor and empower local artist to use their artistry to improve their livelihood, address social issues and shape a more inclusive society.
As the title suggests, the program intended to train participants in three aspects of artist development: performance artistry, advocacy and entrepreneurship. TCP founder and director, Carla Canales, led this program since its initiation on March 23rd 2022, along with Broadway artists Andrea Burns (In the Height, West Side Story, Beauty and the Beast) and Gabi Stapula (choreographer on The View, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon).
TTA #1: Artistry
The Artistry program focused on strengthening the singing, acting, and dancing skills using a combination of learning material and practical exercises.
ARTISTS
TTA #2: Advocacy
In the Advocacy Program, participants learned to compose stories and songs inspired by the endeavors and leadership of influential Indonesian female leaders in Indonesia to amplify their messages.
In this portion, the TTA focused on advocacy training by exploring the process of TCP’s own Hear Her Song initiative, meeting the program objective to “increase appreciation and empowerment of Indonesian culture” and “raising awareness, tackling social issues and advocating for positive transformative change”.
Throughout the program, participants were divided into three groups, and collectively wrote their own songs about their honorees. The honorees featured Dian Sastro, Butet Manurung, and Renitasari Adrian. This rendition of Hear Her Song was particularly inspiring because of the participants’ prolific creativity and efficient collaboration. Not only did the participants have to work together as a group to create a single composition, but they also managed their own arrangements, lyrics, mixing, video footage and translations. We are so excited to share the incredible results of this new round of Hear Her Song!
TTA #3: Entrepreneurship
The Entrepreneurship Program focused on entrepreneurship training for both entrepreneurs and artists to build, grow, and maintain their entrepreneurial ventures.
PARTNERS
