OVERVIEW:
Sing, Act and Dance during this incredible IN-PERSON Musical Theater Summer Intensive, working with some of the best in the Business and our distinguished faculty:
Vocal Coach: Deirdre Lobo – Artistic Director, OVIMA Global (USA)
Acting / Movement Coach & Director: Karla Singh (INDIA)
Dance: ICMD – Pia Sutaria, Artistic Director (INDIA)
Additionally students will have the privilege of meeting with Special Guests in the Performing Arts to guide them on careers in the Arts and the various options available, not just Singing, Acting, or Dancing.
This Intensive provides an insight into what it takes to be a Musical Theater Artist on Broadway or the West End focusing and expanding on their vocal performance, acting and dancing craft for stage.
The Intensive has been broken into two age groups:
7-12+ Years – May 30 to June 4, 2022
Final Performance: June 4, 2022
The Intensive is for students ages 7-12 years. In this one week, Musical Theatre intensive students are prepared to perform one Monologue, one Song, and one Dance number from a musical using the Jazz style of dance. It is designed to not just develop and refine a student’s artistic skills and performance but to shape them into artists with confidence expressing themselves completely through the eyes of the lyricist and composer. Students are trained to audition effectively. Students leave the program with one Monologue, one Song, and one Dance Style for an audition, and perform all three on the last day for family and friends in the Showcase Performance on June 4 in Audition Style for our distinguished faculty. Students between the ages of 7-12 years with some amount of dance and singing experience are encouraged to apply.
13+ Years – May 30 to June 11, 2022
13+ Age Group Final Performance: June 11, 2022
The Intensive will be for students ages 13+ years. This two week Intensive offers the talented young singer-actor-dancer the opportunity to sharpen his / her skills and challenge their abilities as they work with our acclaimed faculty in a rigorous training in jazz / theater dance and tap. Additionally students will have classes in voice and acting to build them up as triple-threat performers. They will come out of this two-week intensive period increasing their technical abilities in jazz / theater dance and tap, improve their skills in vocal ensemble, and solo work, and have greater confidence in the understanding of acting skills, and how they apply to “acting the song, dialogue, or a scene from a play, or a from a musical.” Students between the ages of 13+ years with some amount of dance and singing experience are encouraged to apply.
Our classes will begin each day where students will explore skills in strengthening their individual vocal instrument, and utilize these techniques into song. Singing and Acting, usually studied separately, are combined and sort of overlap in this intensive. We will make use of simple, but challenging vocal exercises designed to get rid of physical tensions produced while singing, making singing effortless. Students learn to apply with passion and clarity those techniques into truthful story-telling, improvisation, and discovering the individual human characteristics embedded in song lyrics. Students learn to do a beautiful Showcase performance while staying fully engaged, at the moment at the end of the two weeks for family and friends .
Faculty Bios
Karla Singh
Although she holds a Masters degree in Business Education, and started her career as a business teacher in schools and colleges, Karla Singh found her calling in the performing arts and events. Since moving to India from America in the late 70’s, her gymnastics and dance background led her into the field of theater as a choreographer and dancer; then became an actress, associate director and finally director. After dabbling in various capacities in such musicals as Evita, Grease, Sound of Music, Oliver, My Fair Lady, Beauty and the Beast, Panchatara & Jesus Christ Superstar among many others over the years, she branched off into feature film, ad films, voiceovers and compering events. Equally at home with youngsters as well as adults, she has not only directed many musicals over the years, but also conducted several theater workshops not only for school children preparing for annual productions, but also school and college teachers to enhance their communication skills. Theater is her life, and she lives it to the fullest!
DEIRDRE LOBO
Of Indian origin, now based in San Francisco, California, USA, acclaimed International Concert Artist, Vocal Coach & Consultant, Deirdre Lobo comes from an extremely artistic family with her mother Celia Lobo, India’s only living Opera Diva. Deirdre is winner of the GRAND PRIZE in the Messiah Soloist Competition, San Diego, California (Dec 4, 2011), and SECOND PRIZE in the Barry Alexander International Vocal Competition, New York (Dec 19, 2011). A versatile artist, Deirdre has performed and continues to do so as soloist in concert, and in recital internationally, performing close to 100 concerts in her musical career, in Europe, the Philippines, United States, and India.
With more than 35 years of experience in the music business, Deirdre has coached, and directed singers, choirs, actors, and speakers in classes, presentations, productions, and workshops worldwide. Deirdre has done over 65 workshops worldwide; and directed over 17 musical and stage productions worldwide including: Aladdin Junior, Annie Junior, Godspell Junior, Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, and many others. In 2014, Deirdre was hired as Vocal Director for JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR in India working with India’s leading theater director and actor, the late Alyque Padamsee.
Some of Deirdre’s students have gone on to have international careers, and have performed on Broadway or in major productions such as SOUTH PACIFIC, LES MISERABLES, GREASE, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, SCROOGE, MONSOON WEDDING, etc. including Tara Sutaria, Pia Sutaria, Meher Mistry, Shiamak Davar, Aditi Paul, to name a few.
In 2015, Deirdre founded the Celia Lobo Academy of Voice (CLAV) to carry on the musical legacy of her mother CELIA LOBO. In 2019 seeds were being sown for the formation of a Performing and Visual Arts Institute to serve students globally online and offline as a Pre-College Performing Arts program. In Dec 2020 One Voice Institute of Music and Art (OVIMA Global) was born, with CLAV becoming the Vocal Department of the institute, serving students in India, the USA, UAE, and Europe. OVIMA Global offers Non-Certification and Certification courses for students in all areas of the performing arts in Group and One-on-One classes.
CREDENTIALS
GRADUATE PERFORMANCE DIPLOMA
Peabody Conservatory of Music (USA)
MASTER OF MUSIC DEGREE
University of Colorado (USA)
BACHELOR OF MUSIC DEGREE
University of Santo Tomas (Philippines)
BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE
University of Bombay (INDIA)
Memberships
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- National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS)
- Music Teachers Association of California (MTAC)
- International Society of Female Professionals
Pia Sutaria
Pia Sutaria is a graduate of the Professional Dancer’s Teaching Diploma, “Royal Academy of Dance” and MA: Musical Theatre Performance, “Royal Academy of Music”, London. She is a recipient of the ‘Disney Theatrical Productions Scholarship’, and has also received support over the years from the World Zoroastrian Organization.
She has performed in India and Internationally for over a decade. She has also performed with “Navdhara India Dance Theatre” in Turkey, Israel, Canada, USA, and Japan. A soloist at the, “National Centre for the Performing Arts” and theRoyal Opera House”, in Mumbai, Pia has represented global brands like Dove, Jockey, Puma, and Nike as a recognised Ballerina in India. She recently gave a TEDx talk on dance and classical ballet in India.
In 2018, Pia founded the “Institute of Classical and Modern Dance” and is also currently the Ballet Master for the “One Year Professional” Program (O.Y.P) at Shiamak Davar’s Institute, Mumbai.
During her study at the RAD, Pia realized the deep void that existed for vocational training for young dancers in India. As a result, Pia’s vision is to make vocational training in dance accessible to young artists. Moreover, to make Ballet, an otherwise elitist art form, to be within the grasp of anyone who wants to pursue it.
Since its inception in 2018 “Institute of Classical and Modern Dance” has focused on preparing and mentoring ICMD’s vocational students to pursue a higher education in dance and performing arts internationally. The school has successfully sent students on scholarships to top performing arts Institutions in Paris, New York, and London.
Arjun Menon
Arjun Menon’s career in performing arts comprises over 10 years of experience in performing, choreographing and teaching both in India and overseas.
He is the Principal dancer of Navdhara India Dance Theater, the only Indian dance company to travel abroad for contemporary dance. The travel accolades extended from tours in America, Germany,South Africa(nelson mandela theater), Bahrain, Israel (suzanne dellal theater), Turkey, Canada, Mexico and China with performing in more than 100 theaters across. He has also chaperoned in class audits and dance syllabus and headed a studio of 600 students for The Danceworx Performing Arts Academy.
His teaching experience includes dance forms like Jazz, Contemporary, maor placement technique (ballet) and Prana paint & flow- a unique sensatising approach that explores movement through connectivity, yoga, breath and touch. He extended his teaching in Theater Chemnitz, Vuyani dance theater and undertook various workshops in Canada,Mexico, Turkey and China.
Arjun has choreographed for and assisted for stage and cinema with over 7 feature films and many stage productions to his credit.
