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“learning and developing skills whilst having fun with performing arts”
Introduction
Lutterworth Youth Theatre Academy Limited is a company concerned with ensuring that the Children of Lutterworth, and the surrounding villages, have an opportunity to develop their skills through attending weekly classes, linked to the performing arts, throughout the school term times. Our primary objective is,
“developing life skills in young people”
We believe that drama and music should be taught in a fun atmosphere where learning and development is a fun process. This prospectus deals with the specific element of musical theatre.
Musical Theatre Classes are a vocational activity that allows an individual to grow in confidence, build self esteem as well as creating a performance in the three musical theatre disciplines of performing dance, drama and music. These classes are certainly not only for students who wish to become actors or performers but are useful to increase the confidence of the budding performer.
“Musical Theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. Since the early 20th century, musical theatre stage works have generally been called simply, 'musicals'.
Performance Examinations in Musical Theatre Classes
Trinity College London incorporates Trinity Guildhall, the International examinations board, which offers accredited qualifications in among others, music and musical theatre.
The exams and assessments are designed to help students and trainees progress; to mark an achievement at each stage of their development, and at all levels of competence, on a journey towards fulfilment of their own individual talents and abilities.
Trinity delivers over 500,000 assessments each year worldwide and the emphasis is based on overall performance rather than a prescriptive formula.
Through this Organisation the Centre Offers graded lessons (grades 1 to 8), just in the same way that student's can, for example, achieve grades in Piano.
Lutterworth Performing Arts Centre is registered as a Trinity Guildhall examination centre, which means that once students are ready to be examined they will have their exam held here, at the Centre, by London adjudicators.
We run several hours of one hour classes here at the Performing Arts Centre each week for students aged 8 and over. Adult graded classes are available.
When students are enrolled they are assessed over the course of four weeks to ascertain the grade at which they should be studying for. They are then placed in the appropriate peer group for their ability. There is no specific time-scale to the examination timetable. Students will be entered for examinations when they are considered ready to attain a pass. Exam entry fees will be payable by the student or parent/guardian of student.
Once again, it is stressed that these are not performance classes, but are specifically held with a view to the students achieving benchmark progress through examinations. This said, they are designed in the spirit of the school, in that students will certainly have fun whilst they are studying and developing their skills.
Once the student achieves grade six of the examination board process then this level qualifies for UCAS points, which can be useful for students that are going on to further education through university. The grades are also universally recognised for students that may wish to pursue a career in performing arts.
It is equally important to understand that the underlying value of these lessons and achievements are to help the student to gain confidence in themselves and to build upon their own value of self worth.
Classes are currently held on a Wednesday evening.
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