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The first classes were held in 1954, in the building which is now the Teatro
Arnoldo Herrera. Students received academic training in the morning and after lunch received interdisciplinary artistic training, which might include dance, painting, music, or folkloric study. A new campus was built and the
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Herrera was one which combined academic, artistic and scientific education to
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