Asteroids

Welcome back to 2025 Musical Theatre Classes! 
We are so enjoying reconnecting with our fabulous returning students, and getting to know some wonderful students who are new to Stage Door this year!

So far this term the class have been doing some great physical work. 
They have learnt their warm up dance routine 'CUPID SHUFFLE' as well as exploring 'Corner work' exercises using a drum. This helps students to feel and understand rhythms, as the tutor creates scenarios our students have been manipulating their bodies and discovering amazing movements.

Learning and honing good dance technique benefits us hugely as performers, helping us to gain strength, stamina, confidence, progression and learning how to use our bodies correctly and safely when dancing.

Homework this week is to practice the wall and turn work undertaken in class: 

WALL EXERCISE
- Turtle
- half a star 
- knee slight bend 
- shoulders forward

'ARABESQUE TURN' 
- supporting knee straight
- left knee 90 degree 
- clockwise 
- right arm and left arm 'backwards L'

BALL CHANGE
- seesaw 
- ruler stans

We also learnt that our Asteroids Term One song will be 'Live in Living Colour' from the musical 'Catch Me If You Can'. 

The resources for the Asteroid class (ie Song Tracks, Song Lyrics, Notices etc) can be found to the far right of this page, above the tutor pics.

During Term One our focus for all of Stage Door's school aged classes is on establishing connections and creating a safe and fun classroom environment where we hope our students will be able to relax, have fun and grown in confidence and skill throughout the year. We take time to get to know each other, play games and invest in activities designed to promote connection, team work and fun. We find that doing this at the start of the year is absolutely vital to establishing a class culture and environment inline with our tag line that Stage Door is a place "Where Everyone Belongs". 

Throughout the year our Asteroids class will work on a number of songs that they will ultimately present at our Musical Theatre End of Year Showcase performances at the end of the year, on Saturday 22 November, 2025 (scroll down for more information about our 2025 Musical Theatre Showcase). 

Parents and Students are asked to keep an eye on this page, where updates, practice resources and homework notes will be regularly added throughout the year. 

TERM ONE SONG:
Live in Living Colour - from the musical Catch Me If You Can

Song lyrics and practice tracks for all Asteroids songs can be downloaded from this webpage for practicing at home. Click on the song titles listed on the right hand side of the page, under Resources (above the tutor pics) to access these.