Acting

The Corral offers an all-inclusive full service fine arts academy, instructing dance and the related arts to students from preschoolers to adults. The Corral staff includes advanced performing instructors who complement their teaching careers with professional work in the dance and dramatic arts industries.

Classes

Viewpoints Methodology and Composition

Level: 1-2
Ages: Adult
Over the past twenty years, Anne Bogart and Tina Landau's Viewpoints training has ignited the imaginations of choreographers, actors, directors, and designers. Viewpoints is taught all over the world and used by countless theatre artists in the rehearsal process. Students will explore the nine physical and five vocal viewpoints in ensemble building exercises to expand their imagination leading to better awareness, choice, and freedom as a theatre artist.

Basic Stage Combat Training (Unarmed and Armed)

Level: 1
Ages: Adult
Students will have a hands on experience with basic techniques of unarmed and armed stage combat training. Students will learn proper warm-up techniques and the importance of complete safety onstage, while "selling" basic combat instruction in a theatrical setting.

A Chorus Line

Level: 3
Ages: Adult
Students will learn the original choreography to Michael Bennett's A Chorus Line. Tony Award Winner for Best Musical, A Chorus Line premiered on Broadway in 1975 and is still a crowd favorite among performers all over the world. Students will learn the original choreography to "I Hope I Get It" and "One." Students should be prepared for a rigorous, yet rewarding experience with this high caliber choreography.

Auditioning for Plays

Level: 3
Ages: Adult
Students will workshop monologues in preparation for future auditions for plays. Each student will discover the importance of a perfect audition by preparing a clean cut resume and having comedic, dramatic, classical, and Shakespearian monologues in their audition repertoire. Audition tips will also be discussed to further the artists success of being cast in future shows. This class is perfect for students who are preparing for a professional career in performance.

Auditioning for Musical Theatre

Level: 3
Ages: Adult
Students will workshop musical theatre songs in preparation for future auditions for musical theatre shows. Each student will discover the importance of a perfect audition by preparing a clean cut resume and having comedic, ballad, classical musical theatre, pop, and country songs on hand in their audition repertoire. Audition tips will also be discussed to better further the artists success of being cast in future musicals. This class is perfect for students who are preparing for a professional career in performance.

Phonetics and Stage Dialects

Level: 1
Ages: Adult
Phonetics is the written language of how words sound. Students will learn the phonetic alphabet and then apply it to dialects throughout the course through monologues of their choosing. Some accents that will be explored are Brooklyn, American Southern, Standard English, Cockney, Irish, French, and German.

Viewpoints Methodology and Composition for the Young Artist

Level: 1
Ages: 7-11
Over the past twenty years, Anne Bogart and Tina Landau's Viewpoints training has ignited the imaginations of choreographers, actors, directors, and designers. Viewpoints is taught all over the world and used by countless theatre artists in the rehearsal process. Students will explore the nine physical and five vocal viewpoints in ensemble building exercises to expand their imagination leading to better awareness, choice, and freedom as a theatre artist.

Acting for the Young Actor

Level: 1
Ages: 7-11
This course will explore the actor's instrument by using acting techniques to enhance imagination and awareness. Acting exercises, scenes, and monologues will be assigned to make the artist a well rounded performer.

Please call our studio at (636) 928-6300 for class schedule day and times. Watch our web site for schedule posting in the near future.

Instructors

	Andi Bloemker Andi is a singer/actor/dancer who recorded her first album at age 17. Since then, she’s toured five times with The Young Americans traveling across the U.S. and Europe, teaching, singing, dancing and acting. While with The Young Americans, Andi was able to experience a wide variety of dance styles from teachers and performers from all over the world. She’s studied Classical Voice at Chapman University in Orange, California and danced at several studios in the LA area. She’s earned her degree in Fine Arts, emphasis in Acting, from Lindenwood University, and actively pursues a career in the performing arts. Most recently, she has appeared in productions such as A Clockwork Orange (Georgie, Minister), Company (Amy), Cabaret (Fraulein Schneider), and Into the Woods (the Witch).
	Meg Rodd Meg is a graduated Wagner College with a Bachelor’s Degree in Musical Theater. She has studied/worked with Anne Reinking, Colette Brandenburg (Alvin Ailey dancer), Rob Ashford (won the Tony for Choreography for Thoroughly Modern Millie), Richard Adler, and Kathy Bryer. She has worked, studied, and performed in the heart of New York City and produced numerous children’s and adults’ productions across the United States.
	Katie McGowan Katie is a professionally trained actor, singer, and dancer. She studied dance professionally with the St. Louis Ballet School, under the direction of Gen Houriuchi and Antoni Zalewski. She has performed with the Les Canadian Ballet Company in The Nutcracker at The Fox Theatre, and has choreographed three full length musicals for local theatre companies. She has appeared as a guest artist at the Dramatics Summer Camp at the Florissant Civic Center, where she created and directed three children's theatre productions. Mentors that have inspired her to continue her ambitions include casting director Carrie Houk, Francis Patrelle, Jeffery Matthews and Katherine Cuba. She can be seen seasonally at Eckert's Apple Orchard in Millstadt, IL in the main-stage entertainment, and is currently working behind-the-scenes at the Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Her favorite roles include West Side Story (Maria), The Wizard of OZ (Dorothy), The Sound of Music (Leisl), and Cinderella (Cinderella). Katie is currently pursuing her B.F.A. in Musical Theatre at Lindenwood University where she has made several mainstage appearances including Company (April), and Bye Bye Birdie (Kim MacAfee).
	Greg Faupel Greg Faupel is a triple threat performer and theatre artist who is thrilled to educate upcoming performers and artists at The Corral. Greg provides expertise in acting, singing, dancing, phonetics and dialects, viewpoints methodology and composition, stage combat, and helping other actors prepare the perfect audition. Greg is a proud graduate of Missouri State University's musical theatre performance program. Some of Greg's favorite performances include Greg in A Chorus Line (original choreography,) Baylor in A Lie of the Mind, Hortensio in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Dimas in Marivaux's Triumph of Love, and Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Greg has also produced, created, and directed original works including Buried Alive, Exposed, and The Ladder. Greg has worked with Missouri State's Tent Theatre and the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre. He has been a part of many NYC audition workshops including Craig Carnelia, Dave Clemmons, Rachel Hoffman, and California based Lower Left Dance Company.
	Klaus Bergmann Klaus Bergmann received his MFA in Theatre Arts and Speech from the University of Michigan. He acted and directed numerous plays for the University of Michigan and the prestigious Ann Arbor Civic Theatre. He received a Fulbright and DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) grant to study directing in Germany. At the "Berlin Ensemble", considered as one of the best theatres in the world, he worked with Helene Weigel, Berthold Brecht's wife. There he directed several plays, among them A. Chekov's "Three Sisters". He learned there how according to Brecht, theatre should educate and entertain. Also in Berlin, at the Max Reinhardt Academy, Klaus taught a course in Readers Theatre and Shakespeare. The former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, made it possible for Klaus Bergmann to study behind the “Iron Curtain” in Warsaw, Poland with Grotowski. In Stuttgart, Germany, Klaus taught an acting class that prepared actors for television and movie auditions. Among the many plays Klaus Bergmann acted in, his fondest memories go back to Goethe’s “Faust”, Berthold Brecht’s “The Good Person of Sezuan”, Ionesco’s “The Lesson” and “The Chairs”, and Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot”. Klaus Bergmann believes that acting can be taught to students of all ages. It teaches to create, to communicate, and to bring to life on stage a totally new character that will move an audience as only live theatre can.