A one-week summer stage school inspired by FOOTLOOSE
Monday 19 August - Friday 23 August 2024
09.30 - 17.00 every day
Location: Grand Hospice, central Brussels
Open to young people aged 10-18
Max. 20 per group (divided by age)
Coaching in acting, singing and dancing and work towards a final showcase, performed for family and friends on the final Friday.
Two masterclasses in specialised performance techniques!
One week full immersion in English!
All this for just €320!
A Summer Workshop like no other
The Bridge Theatre Summer Workshop is unlike anything else available in Brussels.
Our team of theatre professionals will enable you to dive into building a character, put you through your paces in dance, and get you to reach new heights in your singing.
Not just Musical Theatre
The Bridge Theatre Summer Workshop does not just give you fantastic tuition in acting, singing and dance.
We have also organised two special masterclasses for you: Stepping – a fun and rhythmic dance form; and Stage Combat!
Scholarships Available!
We appreciate that the cost of the Summer Workshop may put the workshop out of reach for some people.
For this reason we are again offering a limited number of reduced-price places for participants who would not otherwise be able to join us.
With a scholarship, the price is reduced to just €150.
If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please contact us directly with a short explanation of your circumstances.
Example Timetable
Our Creative Team
Abbie Moore - Acting
Abbie is an actor, director and international drama workshop facilitator from the UK. After graduating with the highest Bachelor’s degree in Performing Arts, she formed the company Hello Drama, and has facilitated theatre workshops to thousands of students from all over the world.
Highlights of her career so far include: Designing and facilitating drama workshops across the UK for the world’s largest youth drama festival (Shakespeare Schools Festival), organising theatre exchange projects with students from Belgium, Luxembourg and Great Britain, and designing and facilitating brand new drama curricula for students in Beijing.
Last year, she directed our summer production, two abridged interpretations of Macbeth and filmed the Cheerio Darling project for Talbot House in Poperinge. Since August 2021, she has run workshops with over 1000 young people from Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Israel, Germany and Luxembourg. She is very much looking forward to this year's summer production.
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.
Olivia Delbeke - Singing
Olivia was born and raised in Brussels. She currently teaches solfège at the academy of Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe and music classes in several primary schools. She started playing the piano at the age of five and later added several instruments such as clarinet, guitar, saxophone, cello and so on. Besides making music, she has always been into singing, dancing and acting.
After secondary school studies, Olivia studied musical theatre at the 'Kunsthumaniora Brussel'. Afterwards, she decided to delve into the world of music and studied the Bachelor degree in music writing at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. She concluded her musical studies in 2023 with a master's degree in music pedagogy at LUCA Lemmens Leuven.
During her studies, Olivia always remained active in the world of musical theatre. She performed in various (amateur) productions such as Beauty and the Beast, Grease, Haispray, Shrek etc. Since 2020, she has always been part of Historalia's summer musical theatre projects in Flanders. This summer, she will also be part of the ensemble in their musical about Joan of Arc. She is looking forward to combining this adventure with The Bridge's summer school and inspiring the young people she will meet there.
Briana Ashley Stuart – Stepping
After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Michigan, Briana traveled the world, and performed and taught internationally as an independent artist. She danced with contemporary dance company SJEwing & Dancers, as well as StepAfrika!, the world’s first dance company dedicated to the art form of stepping.
Since moving to Brussels in 2017, she has expanded her career as a performer and entrepreneur working with ZIKIT, 4Hoogkindertheater, Gorges Ocloo, Nadine Baboy, Delila Hermans, among other artists and organizations. Within her artistic work, she is interested in audience interaction, philosophy and how the history and culture of art forms are directly linked to the human condition and expression.
She presented her latest work Moving Meditations, a multidisciplinary work about healing, that premiered at the Royal Flemish Theater in Brussels in March 2023. This work was the first step in her research into percussive dance and movement and sound in space and since its premiere this work has toured nationally and internationally. More about her artistic interests and works can be seen in her introspective dance lecture “Stepping: Freedom in Form” produced by the BOZAR museum in Brussels, and more recently her dance lecture “How to Unveil the Secret Power of Movement and Sound to Create” at TEDxBrussels in May 2023.
Her work and story has been featured in the I Love Brussels Online Magazine, the Behind the Story Podcast, the Brussels Express, BX1 Media,Accountable, Count Me In Podcast, BRUZZ Media, Radio France Internationale, Together Magazine and Brown Girls Do Ballet.
Marie Drisch - Stage Combat
Marie is an actress, director, stage combat teacher and fight choreographer born in Brussels. After graduating from IHECS with a master's degree in communication in 2013, she moved to London and studied drama at The Bridge Theatre training Company. She qualified as a stage combat teacher with The Actor Combat Theatrical Training (ACTT).
Her Acting credits include MAYFLIES (BBC), MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE (Warner bros) and MARY & GEORGE (Sky). She will be soon appearing in STILL OUT THERE (Tutku Films). Her theatre credits include RESTLESS, LAUTREC and HUIS-CLOS.
Marie is specialised in stage combat and work as a Theatre fight choreographer and teacher across the UK. She regularly work with The Guildford School of Acting, The Bridge Theatre training company and Aberdeen Academy Of Performing Art.
She recently choreographed plays and musicals such as AS YOU LIKE IT, TARTUFFE, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, CARRIE and THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME.
She is also the co-director of CROSSGUARDS - a company offering fight demonstrations and workshops - which has a residency at the Shakespeare's Globe Exhibition.
Want Acting classes?
Check out our ACT Workshops!
Our ACT Workshops are one-off masterclasses, taking place on Saturday afternoons. You can sign up to each session individually, meaning you can sign up whenever you like!
Each session is run by one of our eclectic mix of locally-based international practitioners. A great way to brush up your skills, get exposed to a new influence, or try something completely new!