The Australian - September 21, 2005
Logie winner's painful recall - WAAPA: 25 YEARS OF CREATIVE EXCELLENCE - A SPECIAL ADVERTISING REPORT
Edition: 5 - Generic Preprints
Section: Features, pg. 001
TRYING to learn the ancient art of tai-chi on a lawn infested with bindis is one of acclaimed actor William McInnes' most enduring memories of his time at WAAPA.
"We'd been taken outside by the tai-chi teacher with the intention of getting more in touch with nature, I think, but it was a bit hard when all you could concentrate on was the prickles!'' he says.
"But I had a lot of fun at the academy, it offered so much in the way of diversity and learning through performance.''
William graduated from the academy's acting course in 1988 and has since become a household name in Australia, thanks to his enormously popular roles in the Channel Seven series Blue Heelers and the ABC's Sea Change.
He has also appeared in the mini-series the Shark Net and My Brother Jack, winning a 2002 Logie award for the latter for Most Outstanding Actor. It was his second Logie, having earlier won the same award in 2000 for Sea Change.
He is married to film director Sarah Watt, who directed his starring role in the recently released film Look Both Ways, which has already won rave reviews.
William, who came to the academy to study from Redcliffe, near Brisbane, believes WAAPA's greatest strength lies in the depth of exposure students get to a range of arts disciplines.
"The great thing about it is that you get music students, actors, designers, opera singers and people in musical theatre all under the one roof,'' he says. ``It's a real pot-pourri of people, and
it's good for students to be exposed to that.''
Edition: 5 - Generic Preprints
Section: Features, pg. 001
TRYING to learn the ancient art of tai-chi on a lawn infested with bindis is one of acclaimed actor William McInnes' most enduring memories of his time at WAAPA.
"We'd been taken outside by the tai-chi teacher with the intention of getting more in touch with nature, I think, but it was a bit hard when all you could concentrate on was the prickles!'' he says.
"But I had a lot of fun at the academy, it offered so much in the way of diversity and learning through performance.''
William graduated from the academy's acting course in 1988 and has since become a household name in Australia, thanks to his enormously popular roles in the Channel Seven series Blue Heelers and the ABC's Sea Change.
He has also appeared in the mini-series the Shark Net and My Brother Jack, winning a 2002 Logie award for the latter for Most Outstanding Actor. It was his second Logie, having earlier won the same award in 2000 for Sea Change.
He is married to film director Sarah Watt, who directed his starring role in the recently released film Look Both Ways, which has already won rave reviews.
William, who came to the academy to study from Redcliffe, near Brisbane, believes WAAPA's greatest strength lies in the depth of exposure students get to a range of arts disciplines.
"The great thing about it is that you get music students, actors, designers, opera singers and people in musical theatre all under the one roof,'' he says. ``It's a real pot-pourri of people, and
it's good for students to be exposed to that.''
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