Seniors Cabaret - the social and health benefits of stage performing

Seniors who want to get over their nerves when they have public presentations enroll in a Cabaret Adult Master Class

Students learn performance techniques like how to sing in a group, how to keep a healthy voice, and what to physically do on stage Source: Getty

Stage fright is an anxiety many share.

Some love it, some fear it, and some choose to get up in front of people and perform in a cabaret show.

It’s a room of students older than the average, mostly retirees, eager to enhance their performance skills in a class about how to overcome their nerves when performing in public.

It’s their vocal coach, David Rogers-Smith’s seventh year mentoring students of the Lord Mayor’s Seniors Cabaret program in Brisbane.