Performing Arts Summer Intensive

The Acting programme will be taught in English and will be led by current IAB lectures. The daily workshops consisting of Movement for Actors, Voice into Text and Contemporary Scene Study.

Movement for Actors – Acting is a whole-body process. In the movement session, students will engage physically with their imagination and the physical dimensions of roles through effective body language.
Voice into Text – These sessions will explore the technical aspects of voice, including accents, the flow of words and the projection of the text.

Contemporary Scene Study – Using the work of Konstantin Stanislavski and his followers, students will develop an imaginative understanding and interpretation of character and text. These classes will encourage students to explore their own personal approach as actors. The work will be developed through both group and individual games and exercises. A varied selection of material will be chosen to suit each student.

The daily workshops consisting of Contemporary Dance, Jazz Dance, Ballet, Commercial and Choreography led workshops:

Contemporary Dance will explore self-expression through organic, free flowing abstract dance vocabularies. Classes will include centre work, travelling sequences, and movement combination.

Jazz Dance will focus on commercial entertainment and musical theatre styles. Jazz dance aims to challenge dynamic range and increase the subtlety of performance qualities.

Ballet is taught as a foundation skill, emphasising posture, alignment, placement and footwork. Classes will consist of barre work, centre work, traveling steps and classical ballet variations.

Commercial workshops will consist of the creation of a commercial piece including different styles such as street dance, hip hop and other popular styles seen on TV and music videos, channelling high levels of physicality and energy into performance.

Choreography sessions will encourage students to define a personal creative movement vocabulary. This work will be developed through improvisation and creative tasks. Some choreographic work will be shown on the Friday sharing.

The Musical Theatre Summer Intensive explores all three of the principle components of Musical Theatre performance – Acting, Dance and Singing

The daily workshops consisting of Jazz Dance, Ballet and Musical Theatre performance workshops.

• Jazz Dance will focus on commercial entertainment and musical theatre styles. Jazz dance aims to challenge dynamic range and increase the subtlety of performance qualities.
• Ballet is taught as a foundation skill, emphasising posture, alignment, placement and footwork. Classes will consist of barre work, centre work, traveling steps and classical ballet variations.
• Musical Theatre workshops will consist of:
  • Singing Technique – participants will explore exercises to develop musicality, breathing, resonance, range, tone, rhythm and harmony. During the sessions, students will perform songs from a variety of genres but principally from musical theatre.
  • Acting Through Song – Acting through song will explore the creative and technical skills required for the interpretation of a song from a variety of musical contexts and develop appropriate approaches which capitalise on the dramatic potential of each work and allow the communication of character through song.
  • Musical Theatre Repertoire – Musical Theatre requires the triple threat of acting, song and dance. In repertoire students will explore a range of scenes from a variety of genres. Scenes from the repertoire will be performed in the Friday sharing.