Our shows
A few times a year we put on a show. Families and friends are welcome, and the room is always full of people who genuinely want it to go well.
A show is not just the few minutes spent on stage. It is a whole day: arriving, setting up, rehearsing, waiting your turn together. It is often there, in the waiting and the encouragement, that learners get the most out of it.
Why perform
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Taming stage fright
Stage fright — le trac — does not go away; you learn to live with it. Facing it surrounded by fellow learners and teachers, somewhere kind, changes the experience entirely.
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Learning to perform
Holding a microphone, looking at the audience, breathing before the first note. These are skills you cannot learn anywhere but on a stage.
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Meeting each other
Learners rarely cross paths from one week to the next. A show day is also a chance to meet, to listen to one another and to cheer each other on.
Taking part, at your own pace
Shows are not compulsory. We encourage them warmly, because every year we see what they give back, but everyone moves at their own pace and nobody is pushed on stage before they are ready.
