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Anna Kerrigan
Anna is the Artistic Director of ASPIRE, an audition-based drama, dance, music and creative and performing arts program produced by the Catholic Schools Office of Maitland-Newcastle.
It’s been a really busy beginning of Term for ASPIRE, we have hit the ground running leaping straight into going through sections of the show each week and seeing how they transition from one to the other. It’s important to do this as the cast need to see this new work come together.
This week we welcomed some guest tutors to our usual ASPIRE rehearsal. Composer Chris Williams, Actress and Writer Rachael Coopes, Vocal Coach and performer Avigail Herman and Contemporary dancer and choreographer Cadi McCarthy.
We are already two rehearsals into ASPIRE 2016 and I can promise you this year’s cast are already impressing. We welcome back old faces and say welcome to a host of new ones.
The ASPIRE production is over for another year and as I reflect, and plan for 2016, I look at the successes of this year. All too often the real success stories in the performing arts are not the final product on the stage, but what emerges from the rehearsal process.