Full-time theatre training for Eve

Advanced student and CSBS teacher Eve Hanson begins her full-time training at MGA Academy in Edinburgh...

Eve will be training in Musical Theatre at the Edinburgh based college. She is already an accomplished singer, dancer and performer with a wide range of performances, achievements and awards on her CV.

Dance success

Eve was a member of our Majors programme reaching Advanced levels and most recently gaining Distinction for her Grade 8 Award from the Royal Academy of Dance. She also studied jazz and tap, and was the student teacher for our Musical Theatre classes. The younger students loved learning from her, and she even managed to successfully continue the classes online throughout the Covid lockdown periods!

Eve gained an A for her Higher Dance at the age of 13, making her the youngest student to gain the award at the time.She received progress awards in our end of year prize givings and a Star Performer Award at Project Dance summer school. She also represented CSBS at the prestigious Royal Academy of Dance Awards days in Edinburgh.

Theatre and performing

Eve has performed across Scotland with CSBS including Go Dance at the Theatre Royal; annual dance displays at Macrobert Arts Centre; the Pasha Kovalev UK tour; Festive Light Switch On - The Nutcracker in Falkirk; and local community events.

As an accomplished singer and musician she has won awards at school for music and voice, and has been in the Junior Musical Theatre programme at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. She has performed in panto at the King's Theatre Edinburgh for two years, the Alhambra Dunfermline, and at the Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling for two years. In 2013 Eve played the role of Bielke, the youngest sister, in Fiddler on the Roof at the Festival Theatre Edinburgh, with Paul Michael Glazer. Eve takes part in the Beyond Broadway musical theatre summer school in Edinburgh each year and has performed in Bring It On the Musical, Fame!, Wizard of Oz and High School Musical over the last 5 years at the Kings Theatre. She played the lead roles of 'Dorothy'in the Wizard of Oz and 'Gabriella' in High School Musical.

Eve was also a member of National Girls Choir, part of NYCoS, with whom she performed in the Edinburgh Festival with the RSNO and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus.

We are sure we will see her name in lights soon and can't wait to follow her stage career!