In this year-long workshop culminating in a public performance, participants 12 - 15 years of age will have fun learning a wide variety of musical theatre skills from improvisation to voice technique and stage craft.Participating in theatre helps teens to develop confidence and creativity, to learn to think on their feet, work as a team and express themselves, builds concentration and creates lifelong memories.

S'Cool : A Teenage Pop/Rock Musical by Matt Cleveland and Roger Emerson.

In this new pop/rock musical Matt Cleveland and Roger Emerson uses an exciting variety of musical styles to explore the feelings and frustrations experienced by contemporary teenagers. Self-respect, acceptance and creating one's own identity are all covered in this engaging 30-minute show. Energetic, entertaining and lots of fun.

COURSE PRESENTERS

Eve Hirsch is an experienced international concert and stage vocal artist. She has enjoyed an international teaching career and has worked for 35 years with students of all ages from 3 months to seniors. Since moving to Toulouse she has been running her own private music studio Butterfly Vocal as well has being employed by the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Toulouse, the International School of Toulouse and by the Mairie de Pibrac to direct 2 musical theatre productions in English with children from local primary schools. She is active as a musical director, stage director and choral conductor of a pop/rock choir Vocal 31. She is currently furthering her studies towards a MA in Professional Practice Voice Pedagogy.

Sarah Bushnell is an experienced orchestral musician, conductor and teacher. 

Her teaching career spans almost 35 years with students of all standards and ages with several past students graduating to Music college and careers in music themselves.

Sarah, has also had extensive experience in the theatre, having begun performing in plays and musicals as child and growing up acting in school and local Theatre group productions.  She has continued as an adult in France appearing in Oliver in 2015 and most recently in numerous Secret Panto Society's (SPS) Pantomimes and in Viva La Vie Bohème with TMA 31 and Scaramouche in TMP, Pibrac.

Kelly Winn is a professional dancer, teacher, and performer and has been doing so for over 25 years. Kelly has taught dance at universities, public and private schools, dance studios, choreographed for many theater performances and before moving to France was the Artistic Director of a local dance studio in Ohio, USA.  She has danced professionally with Enoch Contemporary Dance Company in Tennessee, The Works Dance Company in NYC, and Living Fountain Dance Company in Ohio.  She is the founder of Reverence Creative Arts, an arts company focused on teaching the next generation of students how to use their gifts to share with the world. Her most recent interest in dance is learning how movement and dance can help people heal from trauma, and she is currently working on her Phd in Expressive Arts Therapy. Kelly currently lives in Toulouse with her husband and youngest daughter.