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25.01.2022 Thanks for the awesome response everyone! Our Summer Workshop is now booked out! If you would like to join the waiting list please email [email protected]

25.01.2022 SEEKING EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR ADULT ZOOM CLASSES WITH A NIDA PROFESSIONAL. Sound like something you want to be involved in? Focus on character development, accent coaching, audition techniques, direction 6 week course, 1.5 hours per week. Ages 18+. Class of 10 only. Cost will be kept to a minimum. Expressions of interest close 10am, 13 August 2020.... Email: [email protected] See more

24.01.2022 A big Initial Stages' welcome to Enya Daly who will be teaching Drama online to our Junior Students Enya was born and grew up in Melbourne. Nowadays, she splits her time between Melbourne and Sydney. Enya is a graduate of NIDA's B.F.A Acting program, and of SHOWFIT’s full-time musical theatre program. Enya’s work has included theatre, film, television, musical theatre and puppetry. Recent credits include the title roles in CDP’s tours of Spot- Live on Stage and The Gruffalo’s... Child, The Moors (Siren Theatre), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again (House of Sand) and Love, Me (The Old 505). Screen credits include the yet to be released feature film I’m Not Gay, a series of satirical skits on The Feed (SBS Viceland) and the short film Alienated. Passing on the knowledge that she’s been privileged to access over her twenty years of training is a passion of Enya’s. See more

23.01.2022 Chookas to our students performing tonight , Tom Nethersole, Djembe Archibald , Moara Smith and Merdi Yamfu Bwanga

23.01.2022 We thought we'd let you in on some of the musicals that we're going to feature in November spectacular, , STATE OF THE ART(S)...Keep an eye out in coming days and weeks as we let you know more of what is in store..

21.01.2022 A big Initial Stages' welcome to Timothy Walker who will be teaching Drama online to our Senior Students. Tim grew up in the small farming community of Portland, Victoria. After watching Top Gun with his dad, he was determined to become a fighter pilot, so he studied engineering, completed his pilot’s license and was accepted into the Air Force. But in a move that turned his father’s hair grey, he pursued acting instead. Before NIDA, Tim was cast in the pilot Godsend (written... and directed by Paddy Macrae) and spent four years in Los Angeles after winning a scholarship to study acting abroad. There, he worked in film, TV and theatre, earning an O1 visa and winning the Bitter Lemons Best New Discovery Award. In 2017 he was the recipient of NIDA’s Hazel Treweek Shakespeare Award. Tim also studied writing and filmmaking (Swinburne University). In 2016 his short film Dark Chocolate, about an unemployed Oompa Loompa, premiered at the Colorado International Film Festival, and he has written a feature based on Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. See more

20.01.2022 Rip off the face covering and breathe an awesomely big sigh of relief because ... we're back ... and so is Summer Workshop! Initial Stages will present BROADWAY UNMASKED (we've had half the year to keep that title bottled up!) and our talented students will take you on a journey of the best Broadway hits yet to come! The workshop will run from 18 - 23 January culminating in a show stopping concert of quality tunes and electric performances. Spaces are limited and reserved for youth 13 - 19, so book your place early by emailing [email protected]

20.01.2022 A local Drama Group for Adults with disabilities run by Helen Janke and supported by Andy McCormack and Grace Newman

18.01.2022 Now is the time to become a part of Initial Stages! Enrol today for 2021.... Juniors from age 8+ Seniors up to age 19 Email [email protected]

18.01.2022 I don’t know if the audience really understands how dire the situation is for millions of hard-working arts professionals. Broadway is closed until 2021, 6 West End venues THINK they can open at the moment. Cirque du Soleil is filing for bankruptcy and cut 3500+ jobs. Feld Entertainment laid off 90% of its workforce permanently. Live Nation had to lay off a significant amount of employees. Cruise ship entertainers are out of work. Theme park productions have no idea when they... will be recalled. There are no concerts, festivals or touring productions scheduled until 2021 and if they don’t happen next year, they may never happen again. No Jazz Fest, no Coachella, no Bonnaroo, no EDC, no Glastonbury, no Download, no ROLLING STONES FINAL TOUR(S), no ballet, no opera....all gone. It’s being predicted that 90% of independent music venues may close, the longer this continues. No more 1st Ave, Whiskey-a-GoGo, no more Tipitina’s, no more Red Rocks, no more CroBar, all gone. Entertainment Management, Publicity, Live events coordinator, Performing arts organizations of all kinds- choirs, theatres, orchestras, dance companies- all are trying to figure out on a daily basis how to keep going and employ anyone they can in the field. More than 12,000,000 people work entertainment production, we are not insignificant and this industry cannot reopen until mass gatherings can happen again. This doesn’t include the additional layoff of venue management and bar staff, security and thousands of vendors. Also, we can’t forget about the hundreds of thousands of performers and entertainers that make these careers possible, without them, there is no show. So when you see your entertainment friends and or posts begging you to wear masks and stay home, understand that we are helplessly watching our industry crumble before our eyes because the country is doing so poorly at reducing the spread. This IS personal for us, our livelihood is dependent on social gathering and we will not accept being labeled nonessential. Music and art are critical to a cheerful, balanced society. Everyone’s career and the whole industry is indefinitely on hold. PLEASE wear your mask (over your mouth AND your nose) and wash your hands.(this is not a Gov ploy to control you, the health experts have said it, LISTEN TO THEM) Gratefully copied. Feel free to do the same. #SaveOurStages #SaveTheArts #artseducationmatters #WeMakeEvents See more

16.01.2022 What we are doing to stay COVID safe at Initial Stages ...

15.01.2022 To be or not to be. In term 2 Initial Stages had to ask the most important theatre question of all, to be or not to be, they decided that they would still be there for the students. Moving to zoom came with its challenges but also some great successes. They were able to introduce a NIDA Graduate, Tim Walker who has sparked the passion for old time theatre back into the students. His methods include a lot of work involving Shakespeare. One student, said that I am so in ...love with Shakespeare now another ‘ Tim makes Shakespeare look so cool We cannot wait to use the skills Tim has taught us over the past term in our end of year Concert where we will present several Shakespeare Monologues ! Stay Tuned

14.01.2022 Our amazing 2020 concert, State of the Art(s) will hit the stage and be live-streamed on Saturday 14 November to what we hope is an army of eager audience members, watching their screens and being prepared to be entertained. Ticket information will be released in coming weeks, but for now, we present our fabulous cast and playlist for this exciting online concert!

14.01.2022 The name on everybody’s lips is gonna beCHICAGO! Join our talented Senior Students as they dance and sing up a stormand all that jazz! CHICAGO... October 2021 See more

13.01.2022 Thank you to all our families that have supported us during these tough times .... So glad you are loving our online classes as much as we are loving bringing them to you ....

13.01.2022 Fantastic opportunity ...

12.01.2022 OPPORTUNITY EXTENDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND! We're extending the deadline and looking at running two classes! Focus on direction, character development, accent coaching, audition techniques. 6 week course, 1.5 hours per week.... Ages 18+. Cost will be kept to a minimum. Expressions of interest close TOMORROW 11am, 14 August 2020. Email: [email protected]

12.01.2022 ENROL TODAY AND PARTICIPATE IN OUR ONLINE ZOOM CLASSES DURING aug-sep 2020 & YOU MIGHT BE THE RECIPIENT OF A 2021 SCHOLARSHIP AT INITIAL STAGES. There will be 2 scholarships up for grabs; one Junior and one Senior. The recipients of the scholarships to Initial Stages 2021 will be chosen at random from the enrolled students participating in Initial Stages online learning Aug-Sept 2020. Sign up now by emailing [email protected]

12.01.2022 It's a mood, and we're feelin' it. But let's look forward to what is to come. 2021, the name on everybody's lips, whether you're mad or not is gonna be Initial Stages!

11.01.2022 A big Initial Stages' welcome to Anthony Gooley who will conducting our Online Adult Classes A NIDA graduate, Anthony is a Sydney Theatre Award winner for The Libertine (Sport For Jove/Darlinghurst Theatre Company) and was also nominated for Inner Voices (Old Fitz Theatre), Of Mice and Men and A Doll’s House (Sport For Jove). Theatre credits include Calamity Jane (Belvoir/The Comedy Theatre/Arts Centre Melbourne), Assassins (Sydney Opera House/Hayes Theatre Co.), Death Of A S...alesman (Ensemble Theatre), The Glass Menagerie (State Theatre Company of South Australia), Replay (Griffin Theatre Company), Barrie Kosky’s The Lost Echo (Sydney Theatre Company), Good Works, All My Sons (Eternity Playhouse), The Crucible, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Twelfth Night, Othello, The Comedy Of Errors (Sport For Jove), Angels In America (Riverside Theatre), The Shadow Box (Old Fitz Theatre), Empire, Rope (TRS), Three Sisters, Julius Caesar (Cry Havoc), S-27 and Orestes 2.0 (Griffin Independent). As director, Orphans (Red Line Productions), Gruesome Playground Injuries (The Kings Collective) and, later this year, Steve Martin’s The Underpants. His television credits include Australia: The Story of Us, Underbelly, Packed to the Rafters, Tough Nuts, Satisfaction and Home and Away. He also appeared as as Eddie Carbone in the Ensemble Theatre’s production of A View from the Bridge in 2019. See more

11.01.2022 Our creative brains are working overtime to ensure that the delivery of online learning remains relevant and engaging to all who have taken and accepted the challenge to keep our company active in these unprecedented times. Thank you to those who have showed us the imagination, perseverance and determination that is needed from disciplined performers to keep the arts alive. We're so glad you're with us!... EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT COMING SOON! STAY TUNED!

08.01.2022 Please help us return to face to face classes and sign below . Thank you ! https://www.change.org/p/daniel-andrews-allow-dance-studios

07.01.2022 Initial Stages would like to shout from the rooftop... WE'RE BAAACCCK! Physical classes will resume at Initial Stages as of Term 3 (July 2020).... Thank you everyone for your patience and cooperation in making this happen!

06.01.2022 Places are filling quickly ....

03.01.2022 Just when you thought your musical theatre fix had packed up and flown off like a bat for the year...we're proud to announce a concert! STATE OF THE ART(S) is a Musical Theatre Roadtrip Playlist for when you can't go anywhere! Featuring songs from new and newer Broadway and West End shows STATE OF THE ART(S), our senior students are busting to perform and we will be streaming the concert, Saturday 14 November 2020. (Or maybe we'll be allowed an audience - who knows!?! Such is the rollercoaster of 2020!) Stay tuned for more info soon!