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When I took Justin Scott on as a student in 2007  he was enthusiastic but hindered by the fact that he could not cold read* from a page of text without many stumbles. He did not have a great deal of confidence, his vocabularly recognition was poor and general knowledge of literature was not that great. In 2007 he took his first TrinityGuildhall of London examination, a Performance Arts in pairs exam, with a young girl called Samatntha. He worked extremely well on a piece of duologue from ‘Ophelia Thinks Harder’ by Jean Betts, based on Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’.

They engaged in intensive literary study and research on the text. Justin and Sam also created an original dance piece for this exam and ended up with a fantastic mark of 83%. In 2008 Justin continued on and worked toward another Trinity Guildhall exam a, a solo Performance Arts exam and bingo, he got the top mark from The Isabel Fish Academy that year. He received 94%.

Recently he choreographed and directed a show for his school which was an amazing success.He is now preparing for another exam and I anticipate he will do very well. He has taken some one on one classes with myself and Tim Gordon, who is an amazing choreographer/dancer/Alexander technique expert. He is making lovely progress with his movement work.Justin has worked to achieve his success and remained dedicated and disciplined.

It is a pleasure to see young people like him blossom.

*cold read: read at sight without any preparation

A group of women from Women In Film and Television, WIFT, Aotearoa were involved in a workshop with Paul Reynolds learning about the Web 2 environment. We are learning skills to help us embed, tag, channel and create group views.

For an introduction to personalisation of your website 2 useful websites are

www.netvibes.com and www.igoogle.com

If you have ever wondered how you could deliver a stunning confident performance why don’t you try a course at The Isabel Fish Academy.

See the prospectus for details of what we offer.

The Isabel Fish Technique gets results.

It is really important for performers to warm up before they begin a performance, presentation or display of their abilities. Successful professionals know this!

The mind and body must be focussed on the task at hand.

A warm up should involve a series of technical exercises that help the mind become alert and the body be physically prepared and energised.

This applies to actors, speakers, presenters, musicians, dancers and most sportspeople. Performers from all walks of life should aim to give the very best display of their abilities that they can.

If a performer does not understand the importance of preparing properly with warm ups, or have the knowledge of techniques to use, they can risk not delivering with their very best level of energy.

Successful people strive to deliver with the best energy they can.

Warm ups help you get the energy.

Auckland Poets - check out this great site where you can publish your stuff.

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Hey there are you talented and do you want to be on TV?

It doesn’t matter how old you are.

Are you the very best at something?

Want to win a large cash prize?

Use your imagination, boring won’t win!

Find out what the competition is all about by emailing twheeler@southpacificpictures.com

Register your interest at www.primetv.co.nz

Hey if you want a laugh these school holidays,

go see The Twits (Roald Dahl) by fantastic playwright, David Wood. This is directed by Tim Bray and is on at the Pumphouse Theatre in Takapuna.

book at http://www.tix.co.nz/  or call 09 4898360

Have fun!

Term One finishes on Friday the 18th of April and Term Two starts on Monday the 5th of May.

A new class for 7 to 9 year olds starts on Monday the 5th of May @ Mangawhai Heads click here to email for  enrolment details.

 Isaac Robinson achieved 96% for his Grade 7 Individual Acting skills exam in November, 2007.

He was top of Auckland. Today there is a special Trinity Guildhall of London exhibition concert where the outstanding performers demonstrate their skills. He is perfoming one of his pieces from The Theatre of the Absurd, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.

The other pieces he performed in the exam were from Trainspotting and the  acrobatic Harleqin from Commedia déll Arte.

Congratulations Isaac, well done!