Wednesday 26 Feb
Welcome back to 2025 Musical Theatre Classes!
We are so enjoying reconnecting with our fabulous high school aged 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.
This week we focused particularly on the following:
BALL CHANGES
- see saw
- ruler stans
ISOLATIONS
(ie isolating one part of the body then combining them into a combination)
- roll shoulder forward
- arm in pizza slice in front of the body and engaged from the shoulder blades
- the knee turned in is the shoulder turned in
- contract the chest in
During Term One our Zodiacs and Constellations classes will be combining to work on the song 'Alexander Hamilton' from the hit Broadway musical Hamilton.
This week we got familiar with the song, learning the melody, rhythms and lyrics.
Homework this week is to practice singing the song, working to memorise the accents (claps) as rehearsed in class.
HOMEWORK THIS WEEK:
- Learn the second section of the song off by heart (ie from line #43 to the end)
- Learn the highlighted lines in the first section by heart
- Practice all of the accents (claps) as rehearsed in class this week
- Optional: anyone interested in singing/rapping solo should run through the first section of the song a few times in preparation to sing along (words in hand) next week.
The resources for Zodiacs and Constellations (ie Song Tracks, Song Lyrics, Notices etc) can be found to the far right of this page, above the tutor pics.