Elevate your performance skills with our Musical Theatre Jazz and Tap Workshop for High School Actors. This dynamic course combines the rhythmic precision of tap dancing with the expressive flair of musical theatre jazz, offering a comprehensive training experience that enhances your stage presence and versatility.
What You’ll Learn:
- Tap Fundamentals:Master the basic steps, rhythm patterns, and techniques of tap dancing. Develop a keen sense of timing and coordination that will add a unique rhythm to your acting performances.
- Musical Theatre Jazz Techniques:Explore the essential movements and styles of jazz dance, including isolations, extensions, and energetic combinations. Learn how to incorporate these elements to express character emotions and narrative through dance.
- Physical Conditioning:Improve your flexibility, strength, and overall fitness with exercises designed to support both dance and acting.
Why Join Us?
Whether you’re preparing for a musical theater role, looking to expand your skill set, or simply want to enhance your overall stagecraft, this class will provide you with the tools and confidence to integrate dance seamlessly into your acting. With expert instruction and a supportive environment, you’ll leave with new techniques, a deeper understanding of rhythm and movement, and an exciting new dimension to your performance skills.
Class Details:
Sundays, September 8, 2024 – October 14, 2024
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Instructor: Amyia Burrell
Amyia Burrell is a proud Actors Equity Association member who most recently performed in the National Broadway Tour of Disney’s The Lion King. Burrell has trained with dance legends such as Tina Landon, Lula Washington, Debbie Allen, Milton Myers, Lady Leah Lafargue, Diane Maroney-Grigsby, Gus Giordano, Abdel Salaam, Petrus Bosman, Birute Barodicate, Garth Fagan, Ana Marie Forsythe and many more.
After spending over a decade with The Lion King National Tour Burrell settled in Orlando, FL, and began teaching dance and performing arts. Burrell is extremely proud to serve as the Head of the Young Dancer Division at Orlando Ballet School. She also teaches Musical Theatre, Voice, and Dance at The Dr. Phillips Center School of the Arts and guest teaches at many other schools and studios. She has served as an instructor/adjudicator for Orange County Public Schools All County Dance, Florida Dance Education Organization, and Dr. Phillips High School. Burrell choreographed the closing group number for the 2019 Applause Awards and served as an instructor for Disney Musicals in Schools 2018-2020.
Burrell holds a certificate in Artist Management from Berklee College of Music. Her greatest joys come from being surrounded by her loving family and dogs and passing along the joy of performing arts to students all over the world.