Acting

Students of The Stage Centre benefit from a truly unique experience. We aim to take the student on a journey from the page to the professional performer.

Here Drama is proudly taught in a refreshing, individual and fun way. The intention is to develop the students confidence, interaction and awareness of drama in the formative years and to push the boundaries of performance in the older students.

As the students progress through the age structure, we open their eyes to the many forms of theatre. Intermediates, Pre-Senior and Senior Students will learn and begin to challenge current concepts through the exploration and understanding of various performance styles. They will have opportunity to enhance these skills through further work with different guest tutors
The Advanced group have the choice to study for a GCSE qualification in Performing Arts and Drama is one of the skills they can be examined in.
We believe that the skills taught and learnt in Drama prepare a young person for life
...all the world's a stage!

Singing

Singing at The Stage Centre is taught in an interesting, exciting and educational way.
We aim to create singers not merely students that can sing.

Singing follows a syllabus written by Christina Michelle Richards that is age-specific in repertoire and in the technical knowledge given to the student year by year. Students record this repertoire on worksheets that are provided for them in their study folder.

Our approach is pupil-centered and we encourage all students to play to their strengths. The emphasis in singing lessons lies with giving students the technical knowledge and skills needed to enable them to build, learn and perform an individual repertoire that can be used in audition and has its foundation in the pupil's natural talent.
They are therefore treated to many different styles of music and given the chance to work in many different ways to discover where this natural talent lies.

Dancing

At The Stage Centre the emphasis in Dance is placed on the importance of performance within dance, choreography and the flexibility in the student to pick up any routine in a range of different styles.

Classes are structured to develop and strengthen a students physicality as well as their natural potential and presentation skills. Students improve posture and core control through experiencing a wide variety of styles and techniques from Jazz to Tap to Ballet to Physical theatre to Street.

Dance follows a syllabus written by Christina Michelle Richards which draws on ISTD specifications and is age-specific to the students year by year.
All students are encouraged to play to their natural technical strengths whether they consider themselves a 'dancer' or not.

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