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Dates for your diary 2012
Classes start back Monday 9th Jan 2012
February Mid Term - Friday 10th Feb 2012 – Tuesday Feb 14th 2012 inclusive
Easter Holidays – Monday 2nd April 2012 – Sunday 15th April 2012 inclusive
Performance at Mitchell Theatre 4th and 5th May 2012
(please note that not all part time students will perform on both dates)
Holiday for Jubilee - Friday 1st June – Tuesday 5th June inclusive
(last day of classes will be Wednesday 20th June 2012)
Awards Evening – Hilton Strathclyde Hotel - Thursday 21st June 2012
(please note that all students should attend)
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Our own associate teacher Miss Sarah Murray has recently passed her Associate teacher’s qualification in Classical Ballet with an outstanding result of 92%.
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Part time and full time students enjoyed an inspirational workshop with Hayley from Rambert Dance Company and then enjoyed the company's stunning performance at Theatre Royal.
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Congratulations to our Higher Dance students
Results are now in and we have 100% pass rate
with some very impressive grades.
Congratulations to Laura Watson, Jennifer Torrance, Jennifer Stone,
Catherine Hall, Shannon Price, Victoria mcgeough.
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Congratulations to all HNC students.
Well done you!!! |
BATD Scholarship Nominations
Congratulations to those students who have Scholarship nominations from BATD. The Fame Academy has received 11 nominations for students to be presented at the scholarship masterclass held in Doncaster this autumn. Students must achieve a mark of “Honours” (grade 3 and above), plus they must impress the examiner with technical skill, performance quality and potential to be offered this opportunity.
Well done you are amongst Great Britain’s top dancers!
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Congratulations to Jennifer Burns
Who achieved her Associate Teacher Certificate in
Ballet with a mark of 92%. Absolutely fantastic!!!! |
Full time professional training in Musical Theatre and Performing Arts
( 2 year diploma course)
Singing – Dancing – Acting
International students can apply on line by clicking here
Auditions will then be arranged by video or on skype.
Arrangements for local accommodation can be arranged through
The Fame Academy
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View pictures from Evolution in the photo gallery |
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Our HNC students have a master class with Ross Davidson
from hit show We Will Rock You
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BATD Exams
Congratulations to all students who sat their BATD dance exams
on the 19th of December achieving a
100% success rate.
All candidates received extremely high marks.
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Fame Academy Sings for Charity
Fame Academy students performed Christmas carols at the
Regent Shopping Center
In Hamilton and
raised
£247.81 for Cash for Kids
Well Done !!! |
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BATD Scholarships
We would like to thank the students who represented The Fame Academy with style at the 2010 Scholarships.
A big WOW for Sarah who was in the judges final 6 for Senior Ballet and
a big WOW for Chloe who was in the judges final 6 for Junior Jazz.
Well Done to all who received nominations.
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Holly Jack in River City
WELL DONE To HOLLY JACK who will be staring in BBC Scotland’s River City.
Holly will be playing wild child ‘Nicole Brodie’ and only aged 14 she is
your typical troubled
teen who hates her step mum and doesn’t make
life easy for her. So look out!
As you can imagine Holly is very excited about her new role and can’t
believe she has landed such an amazing role.
Holly will be making her first appearance on
Tuesday 12th October at 8pm.
CONGRATULATIONS
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Audition Success
Another hugely successful day for Fame Academy at The Kings Theatre
Students from Fame auditioned for Snow White panto held at the
Kings Theatre in Glasgow.
Three students have been cast
and
another three are reserves.
Congratulations to all who represented “ The Fame Academy”
with style and professionalism.
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Audition Success
Well Done to Hannah Grant from our
Stage 1 Company and Lauren Hall
from our Junior Company who will be
performing in
Motherwell's pantomime
of
Peter Pan. Congratulations.
Well Done to Jack Shanks who auditioned
for the part of ‘Michael’ from Peter Pan
for his first professional pantomime
and was successful!
Jack will be playing the role of ‘Michael’ In
Peter Pan at Motherwell Civic Theatre from
Monday 22nd November 2010 until
Tuesday 4th January 2011
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HIGHER DANCE RESULTS
Congratulations to Jennifer Burns and Sarah Murray who received
their Higher Dance results.
Both girls got an “A”.
Well done!!!!!
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LCM Examinations
Exam results are now in for Speech and Drama examinations and
singing examinations.
As with our dance exams earlier this year we had a 100% success rate.
All students received good results with very positive feedback and a large percentage of students achieved “Distinction”.
Congratulations to all!
Thanks to Angela Darcy and Greg Burns for preparing the students
to such a high standard.
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BATD Scholarships
The Fame Academy is very proud to announce that some of our students have been honoured with a nomination for the scholarships, held in Scotland this year on the weekend of Oct 2nd and 3rd
Congratulations to all those who have been nominated.
An amazing 11 nominations!
Students who enter for ballet, jazz or tap graded examinations with “The British Association of Teachers of Dancing” in grade three or above are eligible to be nominated for entry into the scholarship class held once every year.
Students must attain a mark of Honours, but that alone is not enough, they have to impress the examiner by dancing with superb technical skill married with presentation and musicality.
The students put forward for scholarship gather together to take a master class whilst a panel of three impartial adjudicators watch intently as they are taken through the comprehensive class. Many BATD scholarship winners can be found in the professional world of dance.
We would like to wish the students well as they head off to dance with Great Britain’s most promising young dancers.
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New Musical Theatre Course for Young Students
There is a new Primary Musical Theatre Course starting in August.
This course is designed for students aged 5 to 7 years old. The course will run on Sundays 11:30am - 1:00pm and will consist of 3 classes, drama, singing and dance. Each class is 30 minutes in length. Students on this programme will participate in a performance and be presented for dance examinations.
For more information or to register please call 01698 844892
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Higher Drama & Higher Dance Courses
The Fame Academy is now accepting applications for
Higher Dance and
Higher Drama students
These courses will commence August 2010 and will be out with school hours.
Please send your contact details to heather@thefameacademy.co.uk
or
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WELCOME
We are very pleased to announce that Avril McCusker has joined the staff at Fame Academy.
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Congratulations to all those students who took BATD Examinations
The Fame Academy had an extremely successful dance examination session, held on 5th and 6th June 2010. The students took examinations from “Starlite” and medal tests to graded examinations and Major examinations with 100% success rate. The marks and report sheets reflect the commitment and hard work of students at the Fame Academy.
Andrea Murray, who already holds teaching qualifications in stage work and tap, took her full membership teaching exam in jazz achieving a mark of 92%. Way to go Andrea!
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Pictures from our Awards Evening
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Scottish Ballet
The graduating “Higher Dance” students and the future “Higher Dance” students at The Fame Academy were inspired by a lecture from Scottish Ballet. Professionals from Scottish Ballet delivered a workshop at The Fame Academy “Conversation in Choreography” which enabled the students a unique insight to the art of choreography. They viewed some fantastic sections of very successful ballets and were able to discuss concepts about choreography from a dancer’s point of view and from the choreographer’s point of view. The experience was exceptional and inspiring for our young dancers. We look forward to future events with Scottish Ballet.
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The Shawn Byfield workshops were a great success
Take a look at the pictures in the gallery and the videos in the media section
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Article from the hamilton advertiser
BRING OUT THE STAR IN YOU!
 The Fame Academy is unique in this area! The Academy is a SQA approved centre. (Scottish Qualifications Authority) and offers an HNC in Musical Theatre. The faculty of The Fame Academy has dedicated a life time to performing arts and musical theatre. With small class sizes, a comprehensive course set out by the SQA, guest lecturers, and committed staff you are sure to excel and succeed.
Heather Murray, the Course Director is originally from Toronto, Canada. Students who have trained with Heather are successfully working in the movie industry, stage, London’s West End, cruise ships and dance companies.
Heather advises good training from a young age to build confidence, self esteem and develop skills. She can appreciate not everyone who takes musical theatre is planning on a career, however why not provide your child with the best instruction. Setting goals and working toward examinations, tests and performances motivates children, gives them a great sense of accomplishment and teaches them self discipline and time management skills. Learning is fun!!!! Succeeding is fun!!!
The Fame Academy works to accommodate everyone’s aspirations. It offers musical theatre courses from 3 hours a week, up to intensive training for promising students who are considering a career performing. The part time courses can lead to the HNC Musical Theatre Course.
The Fame Academy Dance School offers superb tuition in ballet, modern, tap, and jazz. Students take examinations in all genres. SQA Higher Dance is available and students can continue on to full time courses or prepare to take a teaching examination.
 The Fame Academy is at the same location as the Music Academy so it is easy for students to arrange individual lessons for any musical instrument including singing, piano and guitar.
Take your training to another level.
Call the Fame Academy now.
01698 844892
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