2024-2025 Classes & Workshops
NEW CLASSES FOR FALL/WINTER
We are elated to be starting our 3-6 year old program year round! Keep your eyes here for new postings.
Audition Workshops
Offering two audition workshops this season to assist you!
How to choose a song!
- Researching your show; understanding character description, vocal range and show synopsis. How this can help you.
- Choosing songs you like singing vs. what directors need to see out of you
- Listening to excerpts from the show, understanding range, style, and character… what do you hear? What are these voice types? Comparing and contrasting ideas in group discussion.
- Listening to other songs that may, or may not, best represent the show at hand. How to distinguish between far and wide song options, and include your best voice.
- Figuring out what range you are and being versatile. Leaning into your strengths.
Marking Music for Accompanists
- How to find sheet music, and it being in the right key (the right range for you)
- Writing in cuts, repeats, codas, and tempos
- How to lay out your music for the accompanist (folder, turning pages, laying flat, tape)
Working With Your Accompanist
- Watch and discuss a real time audition with a guest student auditioner, work and collaborate with the accompanist. You’ll see it done well and not so well…
- Do’s and Don’ts of talking with them, and how to recover from train wrecks!
Potential Future Classes:
All About Theatre provides pre-professional dance, music theater and acting training. We offer a wide variety of youth classes and workshops where students can explore and learn many facets of the performing and visual arts, including mini classes for our youngest students, ages 3-6, youth classes for students, ages 6-10, and age 10-17 along with our full-scale productions all year round and specialized teen intensives.
ACTING
- Storytelling
- Monologue prep / scene work
- Improv & Comedy
- Shakespeare
WORKOUTS / MOVEMENT
- Cardio Workout with Dance Vibe
- Yoga Basics for kids
- Gymnastics
- Coordination and Movement - learn basic dance terms and also what’s expected and how to move your body - conceptual directions and body awareness
DANCE
- Tap / Jazz / Ballet / Lyrical / Musical Theater / Contemporary
- Basic Steps & Techniques
- Intermediate Steps & Techniques
- Advanced Steps & Techniques
- Dance Terminology - Education on terms and steps within each genre
- Tik-Tok “like” approach to dance routines - how to learn choreography quickly (tips and tools)
MUSIC
- Harmonies
- Choirs (SATB)
- Broadway songs
- Music Theory
- Song selection (as part of audition workshop/master class)
- Musical Theater Appreciation Class (historical/introduce shows/comparisons/discussions/analysis and more…)
- Master Vocal Class
ART
- Craft (from slime to cardboard cars and more…)
- Fine Art & Collages
LITERATURE
- Shakespeare - learn more about his complete works
- Script Analysis
- Play Reading /Study Group - college prep read a play / study it / group discussions about each piece… Greeks / Renaissance
HEALTHY & WELLNESS
What is really important? / How do we connect and stay connected? And more...
- Yoga
- Mindfulness
GENERAL THEATER
Theater Training - set design / costume design / make-up design / lighting / sound / props / stage management etc…. We will talk about color theory and sound theory.
- Costume Design
- Set Design
- Stage Management
- Make-Up Design
- Audition Prep
DIRECTING - HOW AND WHAT WE LOOK FOR
From learning how to put together choreography, staging and directing, understanding the music….. to what the audition panel is looking for when you audition…
- Panels of directing staff talking about how and what they look for during auditions
- Directing - work on set scripts to encourage students to think from the director’s perspective or become one themselves.
- Music Direction - what goes into the vocal decisions and what they look for in vocalists during auditions to SATB vocal rehearsals to Musicians for the pit orchestra.
- Choreography - how to put dances together, how to teach them, what you are looking for in dances and movers of all levels - tips on how to stand out in an audition.
- Dance Auditions - how to improve memory / tools to learn quickly / retention and strategies.
- Projects like dance assignments - “Tik-Tok” style - fast and furious and fun !!!