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Ms. Anna has created a beautiful contemporary/modern dance that can “be very emotional.” It’s for you do perform when “you feel sad, or scared, or maybe you don’t know how to feel and you’re trying to sort that out.”

Ms. Anna has broken the entire dance down into very learnable sections. Feel free to pause and rewind as needed until you’ve learned the movement well. Keep in mind, she is mirroring you while she is teaching. Which means, when you learn it from the video, you should be her mirror. For instance, when she starts the dance facing “down stage left,” you’ll notice she is actually facing down stage right. Make sure you face down stage left, and you’ll be all set to mirror her movements.

Enjoy this process. Enjoy moving. Enjoy letting your emotions carry you through the dance.

Send us your videos performing the dance to stagelightathome@gmail.com or tag us on social media @stagelightarts. We can’t wait to watch you dance!

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If you’re getting a little stir crazy being at home during this quarantine, channel those emotions and create a musical theatre performance based on “Annie”‘s It’s a Hard Knock Life!

Choreograph and create a music video using your own home as the stage. Include choreography that shows cleaning parts of your house or organizing or washing sheets! Have someone video for you, and maybe even edit the video to show different scenes around your house. Make sure you sing along! And if you can, put together a costume too!

We can’t wait to see your final product. Send your video to stagelightathome@gmail.com or tag us on social media @stagelightarts. Have fun!

This is a quick and easy Acting exercise you can do at home. The challenge is in changing the emotion and really committing to the delivery and performance of each emotion.

Here’s how to play: Memorize a short poem or Nursery Rhyme. Once you have it memorized, choose at least three different emotions. Perform the poem or nursery rhyme with those three emotions, really jumping fully into the emotion. Here are a few basic emotions to get you started:

After you performances, discuss with your family which emotions worked well with the poem or nursery rhyme, and which emotions didn’t. Were some combinations funny? Or authentic? Which emotions felt the most natural to you?

Send us a video of your favorite emotional performance to stagelightathome@gmail.com or tag us on social media @stagelightarts. As always, have fun playing!