Term One, 2020: iSong Shuffle

Improvisation and singing skills combine in this fun and fast paced term. Learn to play, repeat, and shuffle your performance technique to navigate the unexpected. Experiment with fundamental acting, improvisation and singing skills as you develop the confidence to sing out loud and perform in any situation.

Course components

• Freeing the Imagination: Participate in games and exercises that promote spontaneity, creative expression and self-confidence.
• Voice and Song: Learn how the voice works, develop confidence with singing technique and performance.
• Craft: Participate in improvised scene work and singing exercises to develop basic acting and improvisation technique.

Term Two, 2020: Broadway Deity

Sing and dance your way back to ancient Greece and reclaim the stories of your favourite mythical and historical characters. Inspired by the pop-musical Hadestown, experiment with physical and vocal choices to bring courageous characters back to life. Collaborate with your ensemble as you reinvent oral tradition and create an odyssey to remember.

Course components

• Voice and Song: Apply singing technique to develop confidence in front of a live audience.
• Performance skill: Experiment with specific physical choices to influence character, vocal quality and performance.
• Creative Expression: Take a variety of roles in a creative development process to generate ideas and concepts for a new live presentation.

Term Three, 2020: The Strange, the Wonderful, and the Sci Fi

Inspired by the mega-computer loving characters in Broadways Be More Chill, prepare yourself for some spacey sagas as you improvise your way through the hallways of a new Sci-Fi – teen musical. Let out your inner-geek and sing, dance, and act your way to new dimensions.

Course components

• Spontaneity: Use improvisation in live performance. Apply improvisation techniques to the development of a new rehearsed work.
• Performance: Apply acting, voice and movement practice to a short, singing and acting presentation.
• Stage Craft: Consider the elements that contribute to the physical realization of a performance.

Term Four, 2020: Battle of the Ballads

Uncover the secrets to your x-factor and ready yourself to bring down the house. Focusing on the autonomous performer, this course explores the techniques required to break down a song as text. This course is an essential for all Musical Theatre Lovers.

Course components

• Text interpretation: Analyse and interpret a scripted song and bring it to life by applying acting technique.
• Creative Impulse: Develop performance craft and confidence in your creative choices.
• Staging: Consider staging techniques and learn musical performance stagecraft.