The Art of Being a Great Performer

A 9-week course to help anyone develop captivating stage presence & the ability to perform successfully.

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Fuel and expand your stage presence and performance potential. Designed for both beginners and experienced performers.

Everyone can be captivating on stage.

Everyone can put on stellar performances.

The key is to understand what that means to you and how it looks on your body...and learning how to get into a space where you can cultivate it without fail, regardless of the circumstances.

Who is this course for?

What will I learn in this course?

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Will we have the chance to perform during the program?

What if I teach but don't perform? Is this program right for me?

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If anyone has ever told you not everyone gets to be a star and you either have it or you don't, they were wrong and just didn't know how to teach it!

I intend to give you the power to be the most captivating performer on any stage, at any level, and any age.

In my 25 years of stage experience I have gathered all of the most important tools, techniques, and resources to construct this program so I can share all of my captivating stage presence secrets with you.

This course will help you connect to the artist within you and discover your own style.

We are all capable and we are all different.

This course will teach you how to discover and present your personal “it” factor.

It will teach you how to play with energy and have character as well as how to characterize movement, set mood and captivate any audience.

I will teach you how to look grounded, present, impactful, and natural on stage.

We will cover all performance dynamics and how they vary. I will teach you how to cater to each.

We will work on stage fright, shyness, and any other self esteem/confidence, personal factors holding you back and how to break free of them.

We will work on––and learn tools for handling––nerves, anxiety, and panic.

We will develop qualities that help us make movements look interesting.

We will work on developing range in our characterizations.

We will work on dynamics to help you develop variety in your presence so you’re not just a character but can also characterize movement.

We will work on developing overall commanding expressive presentation that makes performing feel explorative, creative, fun, and exhilarating.

We will develop your “star” qualities and work on charm, charisma, and personality development so you can perform well in any given “role” or circumstance.

We will develop expressive musicality and body movement dynamics and accents.

You will learn how to cultivate expression.

By the end of this course you will be able to make any choreography look interesting, musical, exciting, and magical.

Hunter Houde, Rising Star Salsa World Champion, Star of Carmen: To Havana and Back

If I could say just one thing about Anya it would be that I have never met someone with such a thorough understanding of partner dancing and such a keen ability to help people execute properly. It is as if the partner gods told her all of the secrets of how our body works so she can help you bring your vision to life. You will not find anyone as loyal, dependable and professional as this woman. A must have for anyone serious about taking their dancing to the next level.

Magna Gopal, www.magnagopal.com

Anya is one of the fiercest dancers I know who's got a presence that can't be ignored. She's clean, technical and beautiful in both her dancing and her teaching. She's always one of the instructors I refer to dancers because of the wealth of information she has to offer.

The Curriculum

Week 1: Stage Presence / What is Presentation?
In this week we will uncover what it truly means to be a great performer and start exploring what that looks like to us. We will debunk and dismantle some popular ideas that actually don’t work and add unnecessary pressure to our process. We will create an outline for the entire course based on what we deem most natural exciting interesting and personal. We will work on developing personal style. By the end of this week you will walk away with the foundation of good presentation. You will learn tools like posture eye contact lines and other fundamental basic elements that help us look good

Week 2: Connection, Shaping, Spacial Awareness, and Staging
Connection is the greatest tool to being comfortable, captivating, present, and interesting.

In this week we will learn how to connect, relate, and interact with all that we have when we are dancing to start using it to enhance our choreography, movement, and expression. We will also cover the importance of using the space you are in to create and cultivate mood. By the end of this week you will always feel like you have things to work with and draw inspiration from.

Week 3: Musicality & Creativity
In this week we will learn how to use the music and other creative energies to create artistic dynamic performances. By the end of this week your body will look like the physical expression of the music

Week 4: Actions, Accents & Dynamics, Sharpness & Power

In this week we will learn all how to energy tools to help us create dynamic explosive light and shade qualities in our movements. By the end of this week you will learn how to characterize and step with different expressions, energy qualities, and intentions. This is where we cultivate having performance choices and learn how to make artistic decisions to make things look interesting. With these tools you can dance one routine millions of different ways.

Week 5: How to Practice & Prepare for a Performance or Competition
In this week we will learn how to strategically practice to get ready to put on your best performance. We will also talk about warm up strategies and what to do and not to do before a show. We will break down all good and bad habits leading up to a performance and how to ensure you do your best job.

We will also work on how to dissect your routines to express the most authentically and visibly.

Week 6: Fear, Stress, Anxiety, Shyness, and Stage Fright
In this week we talk about all the ways in which we block ourselves from being seen on stage and learn tools of how to not give away our power and how to build confidence.

Week 7: Expression Vs. Emotion
In this week we learn tools that help us be expressive and emotive without being dramatic or disconnected. This is the week where we harness natural expression and rid ourselves of any false cover ups or fake emotions. After this week your movement will be naturally more expressive.

Week 8: Overall Look, Aesthetics, and Style
In this week we talk about the importance of developing your character, how to do it and how to grow within it. We will discuss aesthetics like costumes make up. We will talk about the difference between character and characterization and how to develop both.

After this week you will have a good sense of who you are on stage, your range, what your ideal look is, what is your style and how you can define movement with detail without losing yourself, yet not overpowering with your personality either.

Week 9: Practice Exam
In our final week we will recap review and put everything into practice. We will have a practice exam where everyone presents a product and receives feedback.

If someone isn’t present looking live they can still present via video.

If someone chooses not to present they are welcome to learn from the presentation of others.