MY TURN!

Saturday 31st March 2012, 12 – 1pm, at Prendergast

‘My Turn’ is your event – your turn. Now you can have a go – choreograph your own dance, write your own song or drama piece.  Or do all three!  If you’ve always wanted to, or just don’t know what it might be like, please have a go.  It’s for you and we’re all here to cheer you on.

This event is not a competition – it is open to all Montage students, aged 6 years and over (adults too!), but there are guidelines with progress closely monitored by staff so you can produce the best work you possibly can. So here goes:

You can create a performance in any style you wish (ie. dance, script or song). Have fun choosing your music and don’t be afraid to be original! Nothing offensive please.

Each piece must be no longer than 2 minutes and 30 secs and no shorter than 1 minute 30 secs – we will be VERY strict on this.

• Your performance(s) must be created by you and/or your group.

• You must create your pieces outside of the Montage classes – so do it at home!

• Musical accompaniment: please provide a CD with your name on it.

• Costumes or Montage uniform can be worn for the performance and small props may be used.

• Teachers will give positive feedback and guidance. To do this, there are 2 dates you will need to work to:

a)  You need to write a few lines on a named sheet of paper telling us what you’d like to do and what each piece of work is about – parents can help with this!

This must be done by Saturday 10^th March!

b)  If we’ve got a lot of entries, the teachers will ask you to show your work to us before the ‘My Turn’ event. We will tell then you if your piece is developed enough to be shown.

Presentation, Saturday 31^st March, 12 – 1pm:

You will perform your song, dance or act on the Prendergast stage to students, teachers and families.

Parents/Carers

Parents do encourage your children to take part and help them along the way – it should be great fun.  Just ask a teacher if you have any queries.

HAVE A GO – AND HAVE A BALL! We look forward to seeing what you come up with!

MTA Youth Theatre Festival!

Tuesday YTC, Friday Drama 3 and Saturday School Level 3 Drama

Saturday 24^th March 2012

We are pleased to present MTA’s first Youth Drama Festival in partnership with Lewisham College!

MTA’s Youth Theatre Company will be joining forces with our Friday Drama 3 and Saturday School Level 3 Drama students in a host of grisly and gruesome, hilarious and hair-raising tales from Brothers Grimm, to Roald Dahl and European fairytales.

Please see below for information on technical times and performances for our show:

• STUDENTS WILL BE NEEDED FROM: 10am-2pm
• 10am – Call Time for YTC and Saturday School students at Lewisham College.
• 11.30am – Call Time for Friday Drama 3 students at Lewisham College.
• 12.30-2pm – Performance
• Venue – Lewisham College-Tressilian Building, Lewisham Way, SE4 1UT

• Parents-The event is not ticketed, but high audience numbers are expected and the seating capacity is 80-90 max so do keep this in mind and tell your family and friends to arrive early to watch the performance!

• Please can you ensure that students bring a snack and drink for the day.  There are vending machines at the college but we cannot guarantee they will be accessible.

• Students will be accompanied by Montage staff during the event.  We ask parents to ensure they arrive in time for the performance and to accompany their child/children from the venue. Montage will not accept any responsibility for children taken from the venue.

Clothing:

• Please ensure students bring along full costume as advised by their teachers.

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Emergency Contact Number:

If you need to contact someone on the day, please call Montage Prendergast Mobile 07949 302 439.

If you have any questions or queries feel free to contact us at the office:

Tel – 020 8692 7007 or email – office@montagetheatre.com

Further congratulations to our Saturday School who have been selected for the regional festival series 2012!

This will be at the Southbank centre on Saturday 17^th March in the morning.  Watch this space for further details!

Congratulations to our Wednesday and Friday street crews on a fantastic performance on Saturday, at the U.Dance Platform in the Royal Festival Hall.  Out of 28 groups performing, we have made it through to perform in U.Dance London on Saturday 17^th March 2012, part of the Connect Festival!!!

Ticket details will be released very soon and we will ensure full details are placed on our website for this amazing event!

A video of our performance can be found on the following link:

http://youtu.be/cPW0oAhPyo8

Happy New Year from everyone at MTA!

This term we have some exciting events coming up including Music for Youth Festival at Southbank, My Turn and our Youth Theatre Company’s annual performance, which is Eight Tales of Beasts and Beauties by Carol Ann Duffy at Lewisham College.

Do watch this space for further details on all events this term!

Our Spring Term dates are Monday 9th January-Saturday 31st March 2012 with half term Monday13th -Saturday18th February 2012.

There are also limited spaces on courses, including our new Intermediate Ballet class.  Do contact our office if you are interested in booking.

We are pleased to inform you that our Wednesday Adult Dance Class will be now be held at:

Wednesday Dance Fever, 2.00 – 3.00pm

St Andrews

Wickham and Brockley Road
London SE4 2SA

This will take place from immediate effect this term-Wednesday 11th January.

We wish all of our students, parents, staff and volunteers a very Merry Christmas and a huge congratulations for such wonderful end of term demonstrations.

We hope you all have a lovely holiday and enjoy the much needed break!

Our office will close on Friday 16th December 2011 and will re-open on Tuesday 3rd January 2012.

Our class times for Spring Term are as below:

Spring 2012:    Monday 9th January–Saturday 31st March 2012.

(Half Term: Mon 13th – Sat 18th February.)

Our very own Supertroupers were invited to take part in a new channel 4 quiz show pilot last weekend and had a marvellous time!

The pilot featured various confident and charismatic individuals, who are looking to raise money for great causes!

It is fair to say our group fully enjoyed meeting everyone and a huge thank you to the production team for looking after the group so well!

Watch this space for further updates as to whether the show goes into production, where we will get the chance to win over the “quiz-masters!”

You can now support our charity by donating via text. Please share this information family and friends…

Watch this space for further information about forthcoming projects we are fundrasing for…

Team_London_Star_Chris (2) = click here to see Chris’ poster!

Check out the below amazing article regarding our volunteer Chris Costello who has been awarded a Team London Award. Do check out Team London and keep an eye out for his poster on the Underground and also Metro paper! We are always on the look-out for volunteers, so if you’re interested in arts facilitating, do get in touch!

http://www.london.gov.uk/teamlondon/stars/chris-costello

Help us to find Chris’ posters!  Email us a picture of you by the poster to office@montagetheatre.com and you too could feature on our map:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=206710207450202221849.0004b2dc633a1a4c0ca95&msa=0&ll=51.498578%2C-0.049717&spn=0.008215%2C0.022638