Our early stages drama class is especially designed for young learners. It is a fun introduction to the subject, whilst building on each child’s confidence.
Often through games, the first techniques to be taught to those new to drama are voice projection, speaking clearly, mime and freeze frames – All being important and common techniques used.
One of the great things about this class is that our young students have many opportunities to put forward their ideas and in doing this also learn to respect the opinions of their peers.
When working on role plays students are usually put into pairs or groups. Children in the early stages class work on stories such as The Gruffalo and Three Little Pigs. Each child will be given a role to play.
This class is vocal, active and very creative.
Our early stages street dance, lyrical/contemporary and drama classes are open to children aged 3 to 6. This is a general guide as we will move younger students into a higher class/age group if we feel they will benefit.
Our juniors continue to work on freeze frames, voice projection, speaking clearly and mime. Additional techniques include split scenes, stage spacing and thought tracking. Many drama games are also played.
At this age each of our students have the opportunity to be a director in class, which is often very much enjoyed by everyone. During group work every person is involved in creating role plays encouraging good team ethics and lots of exploring.
As well as group plays, monologues and duologues are established in this class, giving every actor the chance to show off their talent. The theme for these, are topics that they can relate to e.g. school life, sibling dilemma’s etc.
This class is vocal, active and very creative.
Our junior stages street dance, lyrical/contemporary and drama classes are open to children aged 7 to 10. This is a general guide as we will move younger students into a higher class/age group if we feel they will benefit.
Our youth drama students, work on plays devised by them and their tutor. Often the script is created by the students or a known script is chosen by the tutor. All drama techniques including split scenes, flash backs/flash forwards are implemented as these give variations and can make a piece abstract and more interesting. Additional strategies will be used in our youth class such as hot seating and narrating.
Students in this class experiment with various different types of characters, accents and scenarios. Theme’s range from bullying, to real life events and disasters, to known T.V. programmes such as the X Factor.
Monologues and duologues are also worked on and students in this class are greatly encouraged to voice project, be aware of their audience and really get into the role of their character.
This class is vocal, active and very creative.
Our youth stages street dance, lyrical/contemporary, drama and tap classes are open to students aged 11-18.
Lyrical / Contemporary