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First year examines your core skills, stripping them back to rebuild a solid foundation. Our supportive environment enables you to develop a rudimentary understanding of each discipline where mistakes are seen as important learning tools. We spend time exploring your unique qualities as an individual and performer. ​ You will study; acting methodologies/practitioners, acting through song, jazz, ballet, commercial, tap, physical theatre, voice, ensemble singing, private weekly singing lesson, score interpretation, anatomy and physiology, music theory, commercial, tap and performance styles. ​ Throughout the year you will demonstrate, discuss and explain your developing skills through a variety of exercises and tasks. Your communications and ideas will be expressed using appropriate vocabulary and with an increasing level of competency. ​ By the end of your first year of study you will have a firm grasp of the rudiments and practical skills which underpin technique. You will also explore the expectations of the professional musical theatre performer and have a stronger sense of self.