Sight-Singing and Musical Awareness Movement
A weekly class in sight-singing is offered, Actors’ movement teaches students to
and students have many opportunities find a physical “centre” and balanced
to practise their skills, including the posture, essential for singers and actors,
ensemble singing classes and rehearsals and explores group and individual
in the first term, and the new music dynamic, self-expression, relaxation and
workshops in the second. isolation.
Classes in musical awareness are also New Music Workshops
offered, affording the chance for students These involve sight-reading (sung
to investigate their instinctive reaction and spoken), staging, improvisation,
to style, idiom and genre, together with characterisation and appreciation of
study of musical and textual structure. different contemporary musical styles
This involves extensive practical and vocal techniques. Students have
improvisation and aural training within worked with composers from Mercury
many styles of music, from Sondheim, Musical Developments (MMD) on new
through soul, to classical aria. material, and some have been involved
in performances of new music at the
Dance Jermyn Street Theatre, and in demo
A whole-group limber each morning recordings of new musicals.
is followed by classes at two different
levels of Jazz dance, tap or occasionally
ballroom. Students build up their
physical stamina, while learning style
and technique, and acquiring a wide
vocabulary of dance steps. Routines
are learned and rehearsed both in the
classroom and in preparation for projects
and shows as needed.
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