Be a Star on Sundays
Get creative
Our Musical Theatre Workshops are the perfect way to let your hair down before the start of another week.
For three hours on a Sunday, our expert workshop leaders will work with you in three different disciplines: acting, singing and dancing.
Meet new people
Our Musical Theatre Workshops are for people who want to get singing, acting and dancing in a non-judgemental setting. Our workshop leaders enable everyone to feel comfortable. We welcome people with little or no prior experience in musical theatre.
We will have with two groups of up to 25 people: one for people with little or no experience; and one for people with more experience. Our small groups are a great chance to meet people in Brussels with similar interests.
For all aged 14 and over.
Just for fun
We plan to make our Musical Theatre Workshops a permanent fixture in Brussels.
Each term will run for 10 weeks. You will get expert tuition in acting, singing and dancing. We will not work towards a performance as such but we may end the term with a showcase for friends and family.
The Workshops will run 10am - 1pm (intermediate) or 11am - 2pm (beginner) on Sundays at Studio Empain, Rue de la Presse 9.
Cost: €270 for the term, payable upon registration.
Our Creative Team
Edward McMillan - Singing
Edward trained in Musical Theatre and has worked as a singer at the Thursford Christmas Spectacular and as part of the all-male crossover quartet, Viva Voce. He has appeared in Off-West End productions of Singin' in the Rain, Calamity Jane and a UK Tour of Bugle Boy - the Glenn Miller Musical.
Edward has been singing in choirs since he was 10. He was lucky enough to have sung in many UK cathedrals, including St Paul's in London. He spent several years with the BBC Symphony Chorus, singing at events such as the Last Night of the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall. He currently sings with the Brussels Chamber Choir.
Lavinia Huxham - Singing
Lavinia trained in musical theatre at Read Dance and Theatre College and at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Her credits include Spring Awakening, A Little Night Music and a workshop for the musical Toy Mic Trev.
After her training Lavinia moved back to Belgium where she started volunteering at the Bridge Theatre's summer school. In November, she performed in All Together Now! at Théâtre Vaudeville where she enjoyed singing songs from Mary Poppins, Sister Act, Hairspray among many others. In 2016, due to her fascination in the voice, she started training in the Estill voice technique and has completed several Level 1 and 2 courses with Anne Marie Speed in London and Dorte Hydestop in Ghent.
Heidi Chadjideris - Dance
Born and raised in Canada, Heidi has been teaching piano and dance since the age of sixteen. Years of extensive study in both music and dance, brought Heidi to train and perform in many genres - ballet, jazz, musical theatre, modern, Spanish dance, Latin American and Ballroom, folkloric and tango Argentino.
Throughout the years, she has appeared in countless performances, musicals and stage productions in Canada, the US and Europe. She has choreographed many numbers for shows and bands, including annual showcases of her own dance school in Greece. While in Greece, her creative talents in theatre, dance and music, brought her to design and teach English “Music and Movement” programs for the young, along with creating and choreographing musicals based on children’s stories.
In dance, Heidi has been fortunate to have trained with renowned artists such as, Gus Giordano, Frank Hatchett, George C. Randolph (Alvin Ailey and Les BJM), Juan Antonio (Louis Falco Company,) Stelio Calagias and legendary tango masters, Fabian Salas and Mariano “Chicho” Frumboli.
Apart from being a dance teacher and performer, Heidi holds a university degree in languages and is a graduate of the Western Ontario Conservatory of Music, where she also taught piano. She competed in and won numerous piano and dance competitions, including the The Canadian Music Competition, and received coaching from internationally renowned concert pianists, Arthur Ozolins and the late Raymond Vacchino.
Most recently, in Brussels, she choreographed the musical “Shrek” for Green Parrot Productions, (March 2019), collaborated with The Bruocsella Symphony Orchestra’s Children’s concerts-musical shows and choreographed The Bridge Theatre's production of All Together Now! at the Vaudeville Theatre.
Alexandre Diaconu - Acting
Alexandre trained in Stage Direction and Acting at the National University of Theatre and Cinematography "I.L.Caragiale" and in Composition and Orchestration at the National University of Music "George Enescu". He went on to specialise in Musical Theatre at the Sorbonne University in Paris, where he followed a master's degree in the art of Musicals and a doctor’s degree in Acting The Song.
After 8 years in France, in 2015, he moved to Brussels, and founded Ecole Broadway, the first and only Musical Theatre Academy in Belgium, where he teaches singing, theatre, musical history, musical construction and analysis of musical performance.
Alexandre has composed numerous musicals that have had runs in Bucharest, Paris, London and Brussels, as well as music projects for theatre and film. In theatre, he has directed a wide range of theatre performances (from Shakespeare to Ionescu) but also musical theatre (Salome, Sunset Boulevard, Ragtime, Chicago, The Witches of Eastwick, Nine).
Dates: Winter Term, 2023
Please ensure that you are available to attend all of the dates of the Workshops. If you will be absent for three or more sessions, we ask you to wait until next term to register.
WINTER TERM (2023)
1. Sunday 15 January
2. Sunday 22 January
3. Sunday 29 January
4. Sunday 5 February
5. Sunday 12 February
ONE WEEK BREAK
6. Sunday 26 February
7. Sunday 5 March
8. Sunday 12 March
9. Sunday 19 March
10. Sunday 26 March