Sonnets Theatre Arts School - Main School for 6 - 16 year olds
Sonnets Main School provides quality performing arts training in the core 3 disciplines: Acting, Dance and Singing. There is no pressure to do examinations, though from time to time courses are offered along side the main school for those interested in the following subjects: Lamda Acting or Verse & Prose examinations and Freestyle dance examinations.
Sonnets Drama Class Sonnets Drama classes are structured to coach pupils in 4 key areas: 1. Mime: Performing without speaking. This is generally without props and trying to tell a story and express feelings relying on your body stance and facial expression. 2. Improvisation: Performing with out a script and with only a small amount of direction. It is spontaneous acting using your imagination to captivate your audience. It gives children the confidence to perform with little or no planning, children learn to develop their own characters and stories. 3. Confidence & Projection: Learning to stand up tall and speak with confidence, so everyone can hear you, when on stage or making a speech or presentation. 4. Emotions: How to express our feelings. Props may be used, such as a colour, objects, stories, pictures or an attitude. Emotions make a performance more realistic and interesting. The inflection in our voices can show emotion, as well as using our body moves.
Sonnets Dance Class STAS Dance classes give children the opportunity to learn fun routines to pop music and musical theatre. There is no fixed style of dance and often in our shows you will see a mixture of styles within a musical mash up from street to Modern dance. We like to encourage creativity and imagination from our pupils and in senior classes they can also work on their own choreography skills as part of their development. A typical class will be in the following structure: 1. Warm up routine and Isolations 2. Performance piece 3. Cool Down and stretch Classes are taught by trained Dance Professionals.
Sonnets Singing Class Sonnets Singing classes cover material from pop songs to musicals and the class is accompanied by the piano. A typical class structure will be: 1. Vocal warm up, 2. Vocal training exercises and articulation 3. Vocal Singing techniques 4. Learning/practising songs, in groups, solo and pairs. Each term classes usually learn 2/3 new songs. They will sometimes perform songs that our Singing Coaches have composed and written, like the song for Children in Need by David Phaure click here to listen to David and Sonnets pupils singing. Sonnets Theatre Arts School has a mobile recording desk so we will occassionally use microphones in the class and record their numbers and cut to CD. A chance to be a Sonnets pop star!!! Each coach has their own style of coaching and we like our coaches to enjoy their creative approach as much as the pupils. So sometimes class structures may deviate from prescription.
There is new a Sonnets Theatre Arts Rewards Scheme called Sonnets STARS starting September 2011, where Sonnets pupils are awarded a different coloured STARS certificate for each year of performing arts training they complete, click here for more information.