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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear SCT Friends,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Below are our spring workshops. Please let me know if you are interested as a few are almost filled. We are having a workshop with Cocca Casting, a local casting company from Albany. These are rare opportunities to meet and have your children work with these folks. We also will be going to White Plains Just north of NYC to have a workshop with Tannens talents. With this workshop parents will have a Q & A for an hour with Lynne Tannnen she will tell you the process for Broadway, film, print and commercials.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Summer Camps are filling fast. We have placed a waiting list for 13 The Musical on the website and other sessions are near closing. You may register and pay online <a href="http://www.saratogachildrenstheatre.org">www.saratogachildrenstheatre.org</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hope to see you soon<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Meg<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Saratoga Springs Children’s Theatre Workshops </span></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Cocca Casting Workshop </span></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Saturday <span style='color:black'>March 24<sup>th</sup> 1-4pm</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Carolyn Cocca and Mark Fallon, Casting Directors, Albany, N.Y., work with students to prepare them for commercial and film auditions. Students will learn the importance of procedures before and after auditioning as well as how to create a proper resume. An on-camera (cold reading) monologue and scene critique will help students improve their audition techniques. Although sides/lines will be provided, bringing favorite script lines is welcomed. Students should bring their current head shot and resume. This workshop will give students the skills they need to feel fully confident and prepared for the audition process. Carolyn and Marks bios may be found on their website. Cocca Casting has worked with several diverse casting projects which are provided through their website: <a href="http://www.coccacasting.com/">www.coccacasting.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Class size limited <b>Ages 11-18</b> <b>FEE $70 <i><span style='color:red'>Three Spots Left</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Tannen’s Talent/Class Act Studios Workshop, 77 Tarrytown Road, White Plains, New York</span></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Saturday March 31<sup>st</sup> 1-5pm</span></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This workshop promotes creativity and spontaneity. Excellent for the pre-teen or teen who needs help with expressing or exploring their imagination. Includes on-camera, color video playbacks for all students. Improv can help your acting, as you free up your inhibitions and to create characters you never thought you had in you. This can greatly help you at auditions and on the stage. This workshop will also focus heavily on musical theatre… how to perform on the stage as well as behind the scenes. Taught by Vin Berardi (bio below)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The last hour will be Q and A with Lynne Tannen, owner of Tannens Talent. This hour is for parents and children who want to learn the process of film, commercial, print and theatre. You will learn what a management/agency does in this industry and how they can help you. <b>Vin Berardi</b> Bio <a href="http://www.classactstudios.com/">www.classactstudios.com</a> <b>Lynne Tannen </b>Bio <a href="http://www.tannenstalent.com/">www.tannenstalent.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Car Pooling will be available if needed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Class size limited<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal'><b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Ages 10-18</span></b><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <b>FEE $175<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Ballroom Dancing Saturday April 21 1-3pm<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This two-hour workshop is an introduction to ballroom dancers intended for middle school aged students. In the course of the workshop, students will learn basic ballroom dancing technique and learn 3 or 4 basic steps in jitterbug, rumba, foxtrot, and waltz. After completing the workshop, students will have a familiarity with ballroom basics and gain confidence in dance in general and in auditioning for shows that may require the ability to dance.<b><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Rita Russell</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> has been an independent ballroom dance instructor and coach primarily at The Ballroom on Sunset in Latham, New York, where she gives private lessons and group classes in ballroom dancing. She has also been a certified Dance Crazy Instructor since 2009; an Arts in Education dance instructor for Albany BOCES since 2008; and, prior to that, a Dance Crazy volunteer and assistant. In addition, Rita has served as choreographer for several productions for the Schenectady Theater for Children, has directed and choreographed for local theater productions. Ms. Russell has been trained in ballroom dancing since 1998 at various area studios including Arthur Murray Dance Studio, Lorraine-Michael’s, Fred Astaire Dance Studio, and DDB School of Ballroom Dancing. She has also studied with various national and international coaches including Pierette Chartier, Daniel Heroux, Peter Billet, and Jennifer and Stanley McCalla. She has competed in ballroom dancing in both the American and International styles of dance in national and international pro-am ballroom competitions. <b><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Ages 8-15 FEE: $25<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal'><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Music Theater Dance Workshop April 28th 1-4pm Ages 9-15 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In this intensive session, students will learn music and choreography from two very different musicals. We will focus on using dance to tell a story. Your children will be challenged to develop new acting skills as they learn to interact in character within the choreography. They will become very familiar with the particular shows which may even give them an edge should they choose to audition for productions of them in the future! <b><span style='color:red'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Rosie Spring</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> has been seen dancing and singing across the country on the<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>national tours of 42nd Street and A Christmas Carol. Recently, she danced<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>the title role in the New York State Theatre Institute production of Sleeping<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Beauty and performed a cabaret at the Fort Salem Theatre with her husband, Rob.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>She has led theater camps for young actors in New York State at <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Saratoga Children's Theatre, The Fort Salem Theater, and Hubbard Hall in Cambridge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>An NYU graduate, Rosie teaches dance and private voice in Saratoga Springs<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>and Glens Falls, she has choreographed musicals all over the capital region. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:red'>Ages 9-15 FEE: $35<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>