Musical Theatre Medley (4-6) Thursdays 04:15 PM – 05:00 PM (SPRING SESSION)
Not sure where your student should start in their training? Musical Theatre Medley is a great place to start! In this class we train in singing, dancing, acting, and how all three disciplines come together for musical storytelling. For our 4–6-year-old students we will begin learning the basics to set a solid foundation for performance skills; this way we can build and grow in new techniques as performers practice training. These students will learn proper breathing techniques for singing, vocal scale warmups, hearing and singing correct notes, and memorizing lyrics. For dance training they will learn musical theatre jazz steps, choreography, memorization for physical movement, and physical storytelling. We will learn how to create and act out characters, facial expressions, and vocal recitations to express and to tell a story.
Shelby Coleman
Teacher
Shelby has a background in theatre education and dance that has led her across the country. She is the Education Director at Stage Right MTC Inc and most recently was the Director of Artistic and Educational Programs with the Surry Arts Council in North Carolina where she directed, choreographed, designed and taught for students throughout North Carolina and Virginia. While there, Shelby was the founder and instructor of a dance studio specializing in ballet, tap, jazz, modern, lyrical, West African, clogging, flat foot, musical theatre and pre-pointe. Shelby has a background in teaching students diagnosed with various physical, mental, and learning disabilities. As the creator of the Special Friends Program in North Carolina, she spear-headed the implementation of the arts as a support for furthering social, emotional and LifeSkills learning for Exception Children classrooms and Post K-12 LifeSkills groups throughout the state. Shelby has taught at various institutes across the country including Lexington Children's Theatre, Shooting Stars YouTheatre, Missoula Children's Theatre, StageRight MTC Inc, Morehead State University, Surry Community College, Surry Arts Council, Ryle High School, Surry County Schools, Milennium Charter Academy, Cincinnati Public Schools, Boone County Public Libraries, Kenton County Public Libraries, Grant County Public Libraries and now The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati.
