Opera Singers, Pop Singers, Rock Bands, Metal Bands, or any other kind of singer who has to get up on stage and do something more than sound pretty. This is for YOU!

Day 1
Topic 1: START WITH THE STORY – Part I – IMAGINATION
Topic 2: A More Effective Way to Learn Music
Topic 3: How to Learn a Role
Topic 4: The #1 Asset a Performer Has Is ______?
Topic 5: Where am I? Who am I?
Topic 6: Boxes – What Does the Music Have to Say About Dramatic Change?
Topic 7: Lines – It’s About Stress!
Topic 8: Arrows – Pinning Down Where Ideas Shift
Topic 9: Circles – Finding the Music that We Have to Move to
Topic 10: Where Does Imagination Come From?
Writing Assignment 0: Choose Your Performance Projects
Writing Assignment 1: Marked Up Score 1.0
Writing Assignment 3: The “Who am I” Paper 1.0

Day 2
Topic 1: START WITH THE STORY – Part II – CREATION
Topic 2: Creating a Specific and Emotionally Charged WWWWW
Topic 3: Putting Drama into Boxes
Topic 4: What We Really Mean by What We Say
Topic 5: Action and Emotion Triggers
Topic 6: Action!
Topic 7: Good Risk Taking
Topic 8: The Difference Between Fully Staged and Concert Version Performances
Topic 9: How to Help Others Give You Useful Feedback
Writing Assignment 2: Marked Up Score 2.0

Day 3
Topic 1: Get Caught Monologuing : The Number 1 Thing You Can Do For a Better Performance RIGHT NOW!
Topic 2: A Singers Guide to Preparing a Monologue
Topic 3: Permission to Act On the Impulse
Topic 4: Connecting the Monologue to the Music
Performance Project 1: Dramatic Monologue Assignment
Performance Project 2: Acting to Music Without Words

Day 4
Topic 1: The Big 3 + MMC Introduction
Topic 2: The Big 3 + 1
Topic 3: Make Music a Consequence in Theory
Topic 4: Make Music a Consequence in Practice (Performer, Director, Cinematographer)
Performance Project 3 : Art Song Fully Staged Version
Performance Project 4: Art Song Concert Version

Day 5
Topic 1: Lessons Live Performance Can Learn From Blockbuster Movies
Topic 2: What Is There In a Phrase
Topic 3: One “Eye-Dea” Per Phrase
Topic 4: LNOS: The Formula for Making Music and Acting Work Naturalistically
Topic 5: Video Examples of Breaking Down the Use of LNOS and MMC

Day 6
Topic 1: Don’t Act – Be
Topic 2: Vulnerability
Topic 3: The Magic If
Topic 4: The Truth Behind What Our Body is Saying – The Limbic Response

Day 7
Topic 1: Basic Stage Craft
Topic 2: Schools of Acting
Topic 3: Stage Directions, Playing the Diagonal, and Singing Between 10 & 2
Topic 4: Giving and Taking the Stage, and Getting Upstage
Topic 5: Touch Things (Coming Soon)
Topic 6: Soloist Bubble and Preventing Your Real Life Death On-Stage (Coming Soon)
Topic 7: Taking Correction (Coming Soon)
Topic 8: STAY IN CHARACTER! (Coming Soon)

Day 8
Topic 1: Become a Character (Coming Soon)
Topic 2: Where Do I Carry My Emotions? (Coming Soon)
Topic 3: What Are my love languages? (Coming Soon)
Topic 4: Core Human Drives (Coming Soon)
Topic 5: Core Human Fears (Coming Soon)
Topic 6: Learning Styles (Coming Soon)
Topic 7: Using MBTI, Enneagram, and Other Personality Tests as Tools for the Stage. (Coming Soon)
Assignment: Who Am I Paper 2.0 (Coming Soon)

Day 9
Topic 1: Performance Anxiety – How Do I Beat It? (Coming Soon)
Topic 2: Tools I Can Use (Coming Soon)
Topic 3: Pre-Performance Mantra (Coming Soon)
Topic 4: Tasking Your Conscious Mind with Observing and Not Judging (Coming Soon)
Topic 5: Breathe Mindfully (Coming Soon)
Topic 6: Direct Your Energy (Coming Soon)
Topic 7: Self Hypnosis and Visualizations. (Coming Soon)
Topic 8: Beta Blockers (Coming Soon)
Topic 9: Professional Help (Coming Soon)
Topic 10: Meditation (Coming Soon)
Topic 11: PMR (Progressive Muscle Relaxation) (Coming Soon)
Topic 12: Guided Meditation (Coming Soon)

Day 10
Topic 1: How to Use Acting to Reinforce Vocal Technique (Coming Soon)
Topic 2: Practice mode Vs. Performance mode and how to connect them (Coming Soon)
Topic 3: The Mighty Stirrer Straw for Voice and Acting (Coming Soon)

Day 11
Topic 1: Definition of a Gesture and Communicating Nothing (Coming soon)
Topic 2: Cycle of Gestures (Coming soon)
Topic 3: Permission to Be Human and to Gesture (Coming soon)
Topic 4: Good and Bad Gestures (Coming soon)
Topic 5: Birth, Life, and Death of a Gesture (Coming soon)
Topic 6: Breath (Coming soon)
Topic 7: Eyes, Mouth, Face, Eye Foci, and Inverting Your Horizon(Coming soon)
Topic 8: Shoulders, Arms, Hands, Fingers (Coming soon)
Topic 9: Torso and Hips (Coming soon)
Topic 10: Legs and Knees (Coming soon)
Topic 11: Feet (Coming soon)
Topic 12: Traveling and Proxemics – Relating One Person or Object to Another (Coming soon)

Day 12
Topic 1: Music Business (Coming Soon)
Topic 2: Resume (Coming Soon)
Topic 3: Headshot (Coming Soon)
Topic 4: Biography (Coming Soon)
Topic 5: Audition, Competitions, and Repertoire (Coming Soon)
Topic 6: Webpage (Coming Soon)
Topic 7: Social Media (Coming Soon)
Topic 8: When Should I Start? (Coming Soon)
Topic 9: Creating Your Own Opportunities (Coming Soon)
Topic 10: Networking (Coming Soon)

Day 13
Topic 1: Making Collaborative Projects Work : How to Do Business with Friends and Stay Friends (Coming Soon)
Topic 2: Collaborative Rhetoric (Coming Soon)
Topic 3: Collaborative Mindset (Coming Soon)
Topic 4: Synergy vs. Implosion (Coming Soon)
Topic 5: Stop Talking and Do It Now! (Coming Soon)
eye opener and life changing. I have never been to an acting class so this is very useful to me as a beginning singer, thank you