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  | Masterclasses at SOTA - broadening horizonsSOTA is very proud to have a tour de force of highly respected performing arts experts who join our outstanding team of teachers to bring their wealth of experience to our pupils in the form of Masterclasses. We also run masterclasses which give our senior SOTA School pupils the opportunity to be prepared for a career in performing arts by learning about the audition processes for Drama School, Dance College and Musical Theatre college. We are very grateful for the fantastic experience and knowledge these masterclasses contribute to our students training.Sean Kingsley - Musical Theatre Performance Masterclass - October 2010Fresh out of the West End company of Billy Elliot, Sean came and inspired SOTA pupils with a musical theatre master class helping the students to develop their performing skills through the learning and performing of a dynamic and hilarious song and dance routine. About Sean:  With a career that has incorporated every theatrical discipline, Sean is now a regular leading performer both in the West End, TV and Internationally. Sean's West End credits include Les Miserables, The Drowsy Chaperone, Scrooge, Cats, Me and My Girl and Billy Elliot. READ College Audition Preparation Masterclass - November 2010 SOTA is delighted to have a fabulous relationship with many other training academies and heartily welcomed Jamie and Helen Read from Read Dance and Theatre College who gave senior SOTA pupils a dance and singing masterclass with the aim of helping them develop the skills needed to succeed in musical theatre college auditions. About READ Dance & Theatre College: .gif)  Since 2001, Read Dance and Theatre College has been leading the way in Foundation Course Training for students wishing to pursue a career in Musical Theatre. Their unique, intensive one-year foundation course bridges the gap between great part-time training like SOTA and full-time, three-year vocational training. Read have developed excellent links with other dance colleges and drama schools including London Studio Centre, Arts Ed and GSA, all of whom send teachers from their 3 year courses to prepare their students for audition. In fact, around 80% of Read graduates have successfully gone on to a funded place at some of the top Dance & Drama Colleges in the UK. Christian Burgess - Drama School Audition Preparation Masterclass - November 2010 Our Senior students were given an incredible and rare insight into what they can expect when they audition for one of the countries greatest Drama Schools such as Guildhall which is where Christian is Director of Drama. Christian gave SOTA pupils the benefit of his wealth of experience as somebody who has experienced thousands of drama school audition successes and failures and then watched our pupils contemporary acting speeches, giving them guidance as to how to develop their work. About Christian:  Christian Burgess AGSM FGS Christian trained as an actor at the Guildhall School. He has extensive professional acting experience in theatre, television and film. He was appointed Head of Acting at the Guildhall in 2004 teaching acting and directing projects and public productions which include Too Young for Ghosts, Confusions, Ghetto, I Capture the Castle, Live Like Pigs (also at the Royal Court), Tales from Ovid, The London Cuckolds, Stanley, Don Juan in Soho, The Last Five Years and Badenheim 1939. He has a strong interest in collaboration across the disciplines and has led many initiatives to bring the School’s Acting, Music and Technical Theatre Arts students together, both inside and outside the curriculum. Christian is a regular director at Prima del Teatro in Tuscany, and is a member of the board of École des Écoles (a network of theatre schools from across Europe dedicated to sharing philosophy and practical expertise). He was appointed as Director of Drama in September 2010 with responsibility for the Acting and Technical Theatre Arts programmes at the School. Photo © Kurt Egyiawan To enrol at SOTA call 01189587168 or email enrol@sota.uk.com |  |
