WELCOME TO LAR PERFORMING ARTS - TRING

At LAR Tring we are all about building confidence and learning key performance skills!

TERM 1
SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER

We work towards our Christmas Shows at The DEMBE Theatre, Pendley, we perform at Tring Christmas Festival and we begin working on LAMDA pieces in our Drama & Performing Arts classes.

TERM 2
JANUARY-APRIL

We work towards LAMDA Exams (taking the exam is optional) in our Drama and Performing Arts classes and we compete and perform at Chesham Arts Festival (Singing and Dance) at The Elgiva Theatre and Milton Keynes Festival of the Arts (Drama).

TERM 3
MAY-JULY

We work towards our Summer Showcase at The Alban Arena.

We perform at Tring Summer Carnival and other local festivals.

CLASS TIMETABLE

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Please email Louisa - louisa@larperformingarts.co.uk to register interest in 1-2-1 lessons or book via the booking links above.

Please visit our Uniform shop here
All children need a LAR T-shirt with black leggings, joggers or jazz pants. Black jazz shoes for Performing Arts classes, trainers for Street Dance and any black shoes for our other classes.

We offer 10% sibling discounts. (Not for 1-1 lessons).

Payment for classes is via monthly subscription through our Class4Kids link.

HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS

VENUES

Tring Community Centre, Silk Mill Way, HP23 5EP
Victoria Hall, Akeman Street, Tring

CLASS INFORMATION

The class includes Dance, Drama & Singing.
Dance with Syanne - styles are lyrical and contemporary
Singing with Jess - musical theatre, classical and pop
Drama with Julius - script work, poetry, devising & LAMDA
These classes offer the opportunity to take LAMDA exams. Taking the exam is optional.
We perform in our two showcases a year, Tring Christmas Festival and Summer Carnival, and compete at Chesham Music Festival.
An auditioned class, for those who want to take their performing to the next level. All children in this class are represented by LAR Talent Agency for professional work.
The class includes Singing, Dancing and Acting and we work towards competitions and performances.
This class does not include LAMDA.
The LAR Theatre Company is drama only (no singing or dance) and is auditioned. We build key theatre skills, working on both contemporary and classical texts and perform a play every year, as well as shorter pieces for our Christmas and Summer Shows.
We compete at Milton Keynes Festival of the Arts.
Learn the foundations of Street Dance, including locking, popping and hip hop with Urban Strides trained teacher, Helayna Liviero.
Our Senior group compete at Chesham Dance Festival.
We perform in our two showcases each year, as well as at other local events, including Ignition Dance Productions at The Alban Arena, Tring Christmas Festival and Summer Carnival.
These classes build confidence and develop a healthy singing technique. We explore a variety of musical genres and learn harmonies, work on solo singing, ensemble singing and develop key performance skills.
We perform in our two showcases each year, compete at Chesham Music Festival and perform at Tring Christmas Festival and Summer Carnival.
Taught by Julius, these classes develop confidence, projection, diction and articulation skills. We explore contemporary and classical texts, devising, improvisation, script writing and much more. We offer the opportunity to take Solo LAMDA Exams (these count towards UCAS points).
1-1 Singing lessons with Louisa Alice-Rose. These sessions build confidence, develop a healthy singing technique and students can perform in our two annual showcases.
Lessons can work towards Trinity exams - classical, musical theatre and / or rock & pop and LAMDA Musical Theatre exams.
1-1 students can also take part in local music festivals and competitions, prepare for professional West End auditions, or have lessons just for fun!

MEET THE TEAM

LOUISA ALICE-ROSE

FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL

Louisa Alice-Rose is a highly versatile soprano and actress. She is also the founder of LAR Performing Arts and the LAR Talent Agency.
Louisa studied at Sylvia Young Theatre School, Tring Park School for the Performing Arts, Glyndebourne Youth Opera and the Royal Northern College of Music, graduating with First Class Honours in Vocal Studies and Opera.
Louisa has been performing on the professional stage since her West End debut at aged 8 in Les Miserables. At aged 9, Louisa played the role of Tilly in the World Première performance of The Bear by Howard Blake at The Barbican Centre and Birmingham Symphony Hall.
At aged 17, Louisa was runner-up in both the Next BRIT Thing competition (sponsored by Classic FM) and the Rotary Club of Great Britain and Ireland Young Musician of the Year. Louisa was nominated for a Classic BRIT Award in 2018. In 2019 Louisa was one of the final 6 singers at the Llangollen Eisteddfod Pendine International Voice of the Future.
In 2020 and 2021 Louisa was top of the iTunes Classical Charts with ‘The Cold Of Winter’ and ‘You Are Not Alone’ composed by Lyndon Samuel.
Louisa’s stage roles for 2022-23 include Phyllis (Iolanthe) for White Knight, Zerlina (Don Giovanni) and Fanny Dashwood (Sense and Sensibility UK Premiere) with Surrey Opera, Yum Yum (The Mikado) for Opera South East, Constance (The Sorcerer), Kate (The Pirates of Penzance) and Leila (Iolanthe) for Grim’s Dyke Opera, Phoebe (The Yeomen Of The Guard) for Kentish Opera.
Other career highlights include solo recitals at Hampton Court Palace, Windsor Castle, The Royal Albert Hall, Cardiff Millennium Centre and Bournemouth International Centre.

JULIUS WILLS

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Julius Wills is an actor, writer and director. He trained first with the Year Out Drama Company, based in Stratford-Upon-Avon and then continued his studies with the Fourth Monkey Actor Training Company. Julius is the Artistic Director for Tell No Tales Theatre Company and LAR Performing Arts. He is also a peripatetic LAMDA Teacher at St Paul’s School.

Julius’ Shakepeare roles include Edmund (King Lear), Benedick (Much Ado About Nothing), Antonio (The Merchant of Venice), Rodrigo (Othello) and Bertram (All’s Well That Ends Well) with Bowler Crab Productions and Duke Senior / Oliver / Duke Frederick (As You Like It) with The Menagerie of the Lost and Found.

Other theatre credits include The Gentleman /Robert Suydam (The Atrocities at Arkham) with Tell No Tales, Lollio (The Changeling) with Ovo Theatre, Smirnov (The Bear, Chekov) and The Conductor (Train Journey) with Broken Word Productions, Tiresias (Antigone) with SE Theatre Company, Goblin Ringleader (Goblin Market) and Probeus (Medusa) with Fourth Monkey at the Edinburgh and Camden Fringe Festivals.

Julius’ pantomime credits include Button (Cinderella) with Chaplins Entertainment and operatic credits include Raoul St Brioche (The Merry Widow) and Scynthius (Less Miserable) with Aquarian Opera.

For Tell No Tales Theatre Company, Julius wrote and directed ‘The Atrocities at Arkham’ and ‘The Lurking Fear’ as part of the London Lovecraft Festival. He also wrote and directed two audio dramas, ‘Echo’ and ‘The Hotel, the Basement and the Laboratory.’ For Broken Word Productions, Julius directed ‘The Proposal’ (Chekov) and he wrote and directed ‘Train Journey.’

HELAYNA LIVIERO

STREET DANCE TEACHER

Helayna is a graduate of Performers College, where she received a Level 6 Diploma in Dance Theatre in 2017. A qualified Street Dance teacher, Helayna gained her Level 4 Diploma with Distinction back in 2012 under Urban Strides, after training and performing with them for 7 years.
Helayna thoroughly enjoys teaching children of all ages, having choreographed and taught in a variety of schools in the Buckinghamshire area, including teaching the Junior School at Performers College whilst she was still in training. Her background is heavily commercial based and has had training in all female company ‘Sirens’ and Locking company ‘FunkOfTheFuture.’
Teaching the foundations of Street Dance, including Locking, Popping and Hip Hop, Helayna is passionate about giving children the confidence and ability to believe they can succeed - all whilst having fun!
Credits include:
John Newman Live TV Performance/ Dubai Expo, Living The Dream/ Global Village Dubai/ Beauty and the Beast Pantomime, UK Productions/ Peter Pan Pantomime, UK Productions/ 10th Anniversary Japan Matsuri as a Dancer & Catwalk Model/ Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Pantomime, UK Productions/ Aladdin Pantomime, Paul Holman Associates, as Ms Bassett & Dancer/ 2016 AQA GCSE Contemporary choreography demonstration video/ NFL Opening Ceremony, Mass Movement/ Young Voices Arena Tour, Urban Strides
Helayna teaches Musical Theatre, Street Dance and LAR Elite for LAR Tring and LAR Welwyn.

SYANNE DAY

DANCE TEACHER

Syanne trained at English National Ballet School and Elmhurst Ballet School, graduating in 2015 with a Diploma in Professional Dance.
Syanne’s professional career began with English National Ballet, performing in their touring production of Swan Lake, followed by their Swan Lake in-the-round production at the Royal Albert Hall. Syanne joined Cork City Ballet in 2019 for a season and afterwards joined Let’s All Dance for their tour of The Nutcracker, where she performed the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy. She has since worked with the company again for two tours of the Sleeping Beauty, performing as the Lilac Fairy and two more tours of The Nutcracker. Syanne has also ventured into contemporary work with Mercurial Dance, who she worked with in 2018 for site specific performances in Birmingham and Coventry. Syanne joined the Connecting Stars project with Constella OperaBallet at the start of 2022, which delivers live virtual performances to care homes around the UK and Ireland.
Syanne also studied at Middlesex University and has a BA in Professional Practice. Syanne is a qualified personal trainer and started her own business in 2020 called DanceWithSyanne, where she teaches weekly dance and fitness classes for adults. Classes range from Adult Ballet to Stretch/Tone/Relax classes as well as dance inspired HIIT workouts. All classes stream online, plus Syanne teaches Adult Ballet classes in-person in Hemel Hempstead and Leighton Buzzard.

LAUREN JAMES RAY

VOCAL COACH

Lauren trained at The Sylvia Young Theatre School and began her professional performing career at 18 in the West End musical Les Miserables, understudying Eponine and Cosette. She went on to tour the UK with the Rogers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific, understudying the roles of Nellie Forbush and Liat, and then returned to the West End in the hit musical Wicked, understudying Nessarose.
Lauren was part of the original cast recording of Broken Wings the musical, and appeared in the original production at The Theatre Royal Haymarket in London.
After a few years away from Wicked, she was asked to return to the production to understudy the additional role of Glinda, and she counts herself extremely lucky to have been involved in the production for well over a decade.
Lauren took on the leading role of Rebecca in Imagine This at the Union Theatre, then played Gail in Teechers at the Guildford Fringe, before going on to lead the production of Stephen Sondheim’s Putting it Together in the role of The Wife, at The Hope Mill Theatre.
Each Christmas Lauren performs with The West End at Christmas cast, touring the UK with a festive show of musical theatre and Christmas classics.
She can be heard on the original cast recording of The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Webborn and Finn, playing the role of Amelia, alongside Emmy award winning Hannah Waddingham, musical theatre royalty Ramin Karimloo, Matt Croke, Christine Allado, and Marvel’s Fra Fee –
Lauren also appeared in the concert version of The Clockmaker’s Daughter at Cadogan Hall.

JESSICA SIMMONS

SINGING TEACHER

Jessica trained at Performers college on the 3 year Musical Theatre course. Since graduating she has worked both on stage and screen in multiple jobs such as Aylesbury Pantomime and Midsummer Murders. She has also been teaching a mixture of acting, singing and dancing for 7 years and has an eye for helping all 3 disciplines cross over and work together.

All of our Teachers have Enhanced DBS Checks and First Aid Training. At LAR, we are all about building confidence. Our class sizes are kept small, so that all children receive individual tuition and feedback from our teachers.

LAR Performing Arts was founded in January 2018 by Louisa Alice-Rose. LAR has since grown to encompass 3 locations around the country, each with individual timetables tailored to the children in each area. Julius and / or Louisa (husband and wife team) teach at every location and know each student personally.

The success of LAR Performing Arts led to the founding of LAR Talent Agency in 2020, representing both adults and children for professional work in theatre, musical theatre, television and film.

CHESHAM

RESULTS 2024

🥇 LAR Elite / Musical Theatre - Class Winners with Honours
🥈 LAR Senior Singing - Second Place with Honours
⭐ LAR Pop Choir - Distinction
⭐ LAR Welwyn - Distinction
⭐ LAR Junior & Senior Performing Arts - Distinction
🥇 Laura Hardy - Class Winner with Honours
⭐ Charlotte Finch - Distinction
🥇 Laura Hardy - Class Winner with Honours
🥇 Sophia Alves & Natalia Luberda - Joint Class Winners with Distinction
🥇 Tenzin Noryang - Class Winner with Distinction
⭐ Annabelle Winston - Distinction
⭐ Betsy Langston - Distinction
⭐ Tenzin Pema - Commended
🥉 Henry Mason - Third Place with Distinction
⭐ Iris Hodgetts - Commended
⭐ Henry Mason - Commended
⭐ Betsy Langson - Commended

2023 EXAMS, FESTIVALS

& COMPETITIONS

88 students took individual Acting, Musical Theatre or Verse & Prose exams with us, we maintained our 100% pass rate and we received 64 Distinctions with lots of lovely feedback from our five LAMDA examiners! Special congratulations to Olivia Palmer-Walker, Charlotte Sellars, Isabella West and Rochana Jha who achieved their LAMDA Bronze Medals (GCSE Equivalent) and to Millie Gathard, Ella Kumar, Annabelle Winston and Violet Swatman who all achieved more than 90%.
100% success rate for Trinity Classical Singing and Rock & Pop Singing Exams
Success includes roles in the following musicals in the West End / UK Tour: Les Miserables, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Beauty and the Beast, The Osmonds, The King And I, Matilda Netflix Film, The Phantom of the Opera
The vocal classes were held at The Elgiva Theatre in Chesham. Congratulations to all of our students for wonderful singing!
•Popular Song Ages 13 to 18
TROPHY WINNER Laura Hardy (age 14) with HONOURS
•Ensemble ages 14 & under
JOINT WINNERS LAR Tring Pop Choir & LAR Welwyn Elite with DISTINCTION
•Show Songs, 10 years & under
SECOND PLACE Annabelle Winston with HONOURS
Wilf Dudley - DISTINCTION
Violet Swatman - DISTINCTION
Sarah-Lea Shapton - DISTINCTION
•Show Songs age 12 & under
Leia Swatman - DISTINCTION
Natalia Luberda - DISTINCTION
•Show Songs ages 14 & under
Laura Hardy - DISTINCTION
•Popular Song Ages 12 & under
Natalia Luberda - DISTINCTION
Huge congratulations to our students Phoebe, Matilda and Sarah-Lea for wonderful performances at Chesham Drama Festival!
Matilda Samuels was awarded the Woodstock Cup and has been invited to perform at the Final Concert.
• Poetry for School Years 5 & 6
WINNER Matilda Samuels (year 6) with HONOURS
Sarah-Lea Shapton & Phoebe Castleton COMMENDED
• Monologue for School Years 5 & 6
3rd Place Sarah-Lea Shapton (year 5) with DISTINCTION
SONGS FROM THE SHOWS
* School Years 9 to 11
SECOND PLACE - Laura Hardy with Distinction
Morgan Slade - Special Merit
* School Years 7 & 8
SECOND PLACE - Alinah Dagpin with Distinction
Natalia Luberda - Special Merit
* Open
SECOND PLACE - Maisie Berry with Distinction
Sophia Alves - Special Merit
* School Years 3 & 4
Annabelle Winston - Special Merit
SOLO ACTING
* School Years 5 & 6
Sarah-Lea Shapton - Special Merit
* School Years 7 to 9
Charlotte Winston - Special Merit
Natalia Luberda - Special Merit