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Audition Advice from our Principal Leontine Hass
ASSOCIATED STUDIOS AUDITION GUIDELINES AND ADVICE We are very much looking forward to meeting you at your audition. Please read these notes carefully as they will help you prepare to the best of your availability. Once you have received your Audition time please let...
Introducing Associated Studios Australia
We are so thrilled to announce some exciting news! Leading London Performing Arts Academy Associated Studios is expanding to Melbourne following the internationally renowned success of its London courses. On 20th August 2018 applications will open for the all-new...
SPRING AWAKENING, from Berlin to Broadway
Spring Awakening is a vibrant, powerful piece which is an ideal vehicle to showcase the talents of young actor/singers with great voices. Associated Studios is proud to present this wonderful adaptation of a great masterpiece depicting a group of fascinating characters in their journey of self-discovery.
A Brief Guide for choosing Pop Songs for Musical Theatre Auditions
: -You are choosing a Pop song for a MUSICAL THEATRE AUDITION and NOT for a Gig with a Mic or a Gig with a band or a recording studio session. Bearing this in mind is absolutely crucial. Please do NOT choose Pop songs which rely on a drum kit/studio production/band to...
A celebration of creativity and the arts: the sector growing at almost twice the rate of the wider UK economy
A message from Founding Principal of Associated Studios Leontine Hass: I watched a TED Talk last night by Ken Robinson titled: Do schools kill creativity? A fantastic and funny talk, all about allowing people to be creative in the fullest sense of what that means. It...
The Power of the Audience
The power of the audience By Australian Board Member, Dr Christopher Stewardson Everyone can have a poor performance. We don’t like it, but we usually get away with it. But woe betide if we disrespect our audience or dump on the press. This is something Frank Sinatra...
Life as a West End Swing
- by AS Musical Theatre Alumni David O' Mahoney "Since doing the first Associated Studios course I went from strength to strength - I secured a great new agent who I've been with for many years now and who I count as a friend and a rock... and have now wracked up two...
Surviving the profession: Developing yourself as a creative artist
By Leontine Hass We dwell in a creative industry, The Performing Arts. You might have been drawn to it for the love of music and text, emotional and physical expression, the search for truth and real human connection, the thrill of moving an audience, and a myriad...
The Myth of Tone Deafness – An article for The Stage by Leontine Hass
As a vocal coach one of the most frequent responses I encounter upon revealing what I do for a living, is the comment ‘Oh I’m completely tone-deaf’. If I can be bothered, there ensues a little debate where I aim to convince the person I am speaking to that only people...