Extracurricular training query for 12 year old
Posted: Sat May 05, 2018 10:47 am
Hello,
I’m hoping to get some advice from some more experienced parents. We have the option of adding one more activity to my daughter’s extra curricular activities but I’m not sure which one would be the most useful for her applying for full-time musical theatre training later.
She is currently doing nine hour-long lessons on a Saturday at our local Italia Conti associates school in acro, acting, musical production, street, tap, ballet, modern, jazz and singing. She also does an hour and half technical dance class with them one evening during the week. She has an hour singing lesson one to one during the week. And a drama and LAMDA class at a local drama school that holds classes in our village.
We have the option of adding piano/keyboard lessons, auditioning at a local dance company that focuses on contemporary dance or doing gymnastics.
Her singing teacher is recommending she learns keyboard to help with singing/reading music and my DD has already recognised that the students learning an instrument are doing better than her at music in school - do you think it’s important to do GCSE music for a career in musical theatre?
She is not currently doing contemporary dance - is this important?
She is very flexible and can do a few acro/gymnastics moves but is desperate to learn more! She’s already doing an acro lesson at IC - is this enough?
We don’t have the capacity for adding more than one, both financially and logistically so which one would people recommend? Which would be more useful in the long run?
Sorry for the long post! Thanks in advance for any replies!
I’m hoping to get some advice from some more experienced parents. We have the option of adding one more activity to my daughter’s extra curricular activities but I’m not sure which one would be the most useful for her applying for full-time musical theatre training later.
She is currently doing nine hour-long lessons on a Saturday at our local Italia Conti associates school in acro, acting, musical production, street, tap, ballet, modern, jazz and singing. She also does an hour and half technical dance class with them one evening during the week. She has an hour singing lesson one to one during the week. And a drama and LAMDA class at a local drama school that holds classes in our village.
We have the option of adding piano/keyboard lessons, auditioning at a local dance company that focuses on contemporary dance or doing gymnastics.
Her singing teacher is recommending she learns keyboard to help with singing/reading music and my DD has already recognised that the students learning an instrument are doing better than her at music in school - do you think it’s important to do GCSE music for a career in musical theatre?
She is not currently doing contemporary dance - is this important?
She is very flexible and can do a few acro/gymnastics moves but is desperate to learn more! She’s already doing an acro lesson at IC - is this enough?
We don’t have the capacity for adding more than one, both financially and logistically so which one would people recommend? Which would be more useful in the long run?
Sorry for the long post! Thanks in advance for any replies!