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22.01.2022 Meet the Team! Rob has been professionally involved in theatre and the arts for over 40 years as a Performer, Director, Musical Director, Choreographer, Writer, Producer, Designer, Stage and Company Manager and Piano Accompanist in more than 25 professional productions and is an internationally recognized Vocal Technician/Coach. Rob’s life in the arts has taken him around the world enabling him to live and work as a professional theatre practitioner in 6 countries; highlights... being the critically acclaimed Production/Direction/Musical Direction of the musicals ‘Into the Woods’ and ‘Children of Eden’, both performed outdoors in the Cumberland State Forest in Sydney: London (vocal coaching and cabaret performer); New York (Off-Broadway run of a new Australian musical ‘Valentino’); Vancouver (Rapunzel’s Prince in ‘Into the Woods’); and throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, USA, Canada, Egypt, Jordan and The Mediterranean (various Cruise Line contracts as lead singer, featured cabaret artist and dancer) Students enrolled in Cabaret with Rob will have the opportunity to perform regularly at Club Voltaire Rob is Teaching Cabaret www.acopa.com.au/teachers

19.01.2022 Meet Our Team! Maeve Godfrey is an award-winning Fine art portrait photographer and artist from Melbourne. She specializes in surreal and narrative portraiture with 9 years of experience Maeve is teaching Narrative Photography... www.acopa.com.au/teachers See more

17.01.2022 Featured Course: Commercial Dance Commencing July 2021 / 10 Weeks This class works strongly on choreography elements in commercial and Hip Hop dance with focuses on moving and working with a group to create a spectacular movement piece as well as testing your individual creativity in freestyle and improvisational dance. With tips and tricks on industry knowledge and general dancer mind and body wellbeing,... This is a class to put technique to the side and strengthen your imagination, body and musicality across a range of activities and exercises including choregraphed numbers Commercial Dance is taught by Liv Rian

17.01.2022 Are you ready to harness the potential within? Enrol now! www.acopa.com.au

17.01.2022 New Start Date! Our courses will now begin in August- You can find out more on our website and see our timetable below. Can't find what you're looking for? See our website for all of our available courses and workshops! www.acopa.com.au/shows

17.01.2022 Meet Our Team! Aarti Vincent is an articulate and effective verbal communicator, with a flair for creativity. Aarti has worked extensively with advertising agencies and production companies, bringing a very strong understanding of the both sides of the table Aarti is teaching Production ... www.acopa.com.au/teachers See more

15.01.2022 Featured Course: Let's Build a Cabaret! Begins August 1st / 8 Weeks / $685 Taught by Rob Martin This course will focus on storytelling and acting through song, dialogue and movement. Students will have the chance to learn about creating story and mood, repertoire selection, song interpretation, stage presence, movement and will have the chance to workshop solo performances in front of the group. The class will culminate in a revue-style format of solo and group presentations... at Club Voltaire! Under the guidance of Rob Martin, and with no limitations other than to create a 15-minute cabaret show, the performers will dive headfirst into the issues and areas which interest and resonate with them most, creating theatre which is bound to excite, inspire, amuse, educate and move the audience. Drawing on musical styles vast and many, they will be assisted and guided in their writing, acting and vocal technique as well as changing and interpreting songs to support original script work and movement. Each individual work will be reflective of the performer’s passions and talents. Cabaret is a unique style of singing, acting, musical and physical performance that is known for its intimacy and the emphasis it places on the lyric through voice and body. It is also an art-form that allows performers of all levels to find a stage. Whether the audience is full of friends and family, or a room full of strangers, that audience becomes the performer’s silent scene partner. The performer’s own connection to and interpretation of the story, lyric, movement and other components, engages with the intimate audience. Students will be given to opportunity to ‘find their voice’ and work to create their unique and honest show, and how to communicate their meaning and intention with an audience

12.01.2022 Meet Our Team! Teig Sadhana is a London-born Australian/English actor based out of New York City and Melbourne. He is an assistantship holding member of the world leading Professional Conservatory at The Stella Adler Studio of Acting on Broadway. He has spent the last several years living between London, New York, Melbourne, and The ACT, developing his craft and working across a multitude of levels and in a variety of settings from international arts festivals (Talk Dirty To ...Me, Perth Fringe), to esteemed London playhouses (Figures of Speech, Almeida Theatre), to full scale professional television productions (Secret City, The Code, Foxtel). With over 10 years in the industry beneath him, Teig has collected deeply valuable experience, performing in award-winning stage-plays (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Canberra Rep) and self-producing festival recognised short films (A Lonely Harvest). Coming from the Adler method, a clear branch from that of Stanislavski, Teig has an acutely technical understanding of the artform and a strong will to share that with his students. Whilst he is based back in Australia, Teig is thrilled to have the opportunity to be a member of faculty at ACOPA, guiding the next generation of Australian artists Teig is teaching Acting Technique alongside Liv Rian www.acopa.com.au/courses

09.01.2022 Featured Course: Narrative Portrait Photography Commencing July 2021 / 4 Weeks / $250 In this course you will learn the art of storytelling through portraiture. You will be guided through the complexities of pre and post-production including; learning how to create props, stage a scene, pose a model, and edit and composite your image in Adobe Photoshop in order to create powerful images that speak more than 1000 words. Come along and learn how to bring your imagination to li...fe Narrative Photography is taught by Maeve Godfrey

08.01.2022 Meet Our Team! Liv Rian is a Melbourne based Actor, model, dancer, director and film maker. Having trained in Theatre and Screen, Liv is an active member of the Australia’s creative scene. Starting out as a Professional Dancer dancing for major Australian events and productions such as, the National Basketball League, Crown Casino, Music videos and more.... Liv toured internationally with her former dance crew, most notably through the US and India to film Disney’s ‘Anybody Can Dance 2’ in 2014. And has been teaching commercial dance to people of all ages since 2013. In her time spent as a working model, Liv was able to network and gain an understanding of the importance of marketing whilst maintaining working relationships for creative endeavours and take control of creative direction on set. Particularly focusing on building your personal brand and casting capabilities which translate across the creative sector in Australia. Liv has garnered 10 years’ experience with Improv, acting technique, scene study, audition workshops, and acting for screen. From writing and producing comedy web series to directing her own films recognized by industry leaders and Film Festivals around the country. Liv is teaching Commercial Dance and Acting Technique, alongside Teig Sadhana

08.01.2022 Featured Course: Production Begins July 19th, 2pm /12 Weeks This 4 hour weekly course will offer students a chance to be involved in the creation and culmination of a theatre project... from writing a screenplay, pre production, filming and production of the project and finally post production. Students will have a finished filmed screenplay that can be used in their showreel and will walk away with experience in screenwriting, acting, directing, filming, production, pre production and post production Production is taught by Aarti Vincent

05.01.2022 Featured Course: Acting Technique Begins 12th July, 7pm / 10 Weeks Through this ten-week course our aim is to introduce and enhance purposeful acting technique within our students. We will build from structurally curated expression and description; into text; into sensory technique and complete with the abstraction of language. This will be achieved through ongoing technical activity-based learning along with weekly guided script and scene work. Upon completion of the course..., our students will understand and be able to utilise the technique required to craft acting performances that are connected and effective. Students will receive a filmed copy of their final performance pieces should they wish to observe their development Available for high school aged students and adults, Beginners- Advanced. Acting Technique is taught by Teig Sadhana and Liv Rian

02.01.2022 Meet Our Team! Aarti Vincent is an articulate and effective verbal communicator, with a flair for creativity. Aarti has worked extensively with advertising agencies and production companies, bringing a very strong understanding of the both sides of the table Aarti is teaching Production, beginning July 19th ... www.acopa.com.au/teachers See more