Course Modules

This module is taken by Arts Management students and aims to develop competency in business planning and imaginative use of physical and creative resources.

This module explores the opportunities that exist for enhanced communication within the formal performance context, using your own physical projection of self and personal narrative of intention. Work will also be developed in a broader context, allowing a deeper understanding

This module allows you to select an area or areas of study of their choice, in singing, instrumental study, dance (including choreography), acting, comedy, magic, and to develop this over an extended period into a self-devised show. This provides an

This module brings together the practical and theoretical skills a composer needs for completing and presenting compositions. It gives you a forum to demonstrate the musical and lyric writing skills and techniques developed during the course and leads to projects

This module gives you an insight to the role of a ‘swing’ within a musical theatre performance context. This is where you will be asked to learn all the parts of a particular production to be ready to fill any

This module develops your skills in the musical theatre dance disciplines to create proficient performances. You will investigate classical ballet performance and its important links to other dance styles. You will be able to use your musical experience to select

You will develop fundamental skills in theatre performance, connection to and understanding of self, truthfulness and character. You will achieve this through acting exercises and techniques, for example, Stanislavski, Meisner, improvisation as well as through narrative and script work as

This module focuses on the development of ensemble skills, with an additional examination of the different performance styles of jazz, tap, contemporary and ballet. You will begin with a focus on the correction and development of alignment, posture, core and

The module introduces you to key skills in examining repertoire drawn from succeeding periods of musical theatre history, supporting an examination of musical structure with a parallel focus on developments in dance and drama within the genre.

This module will introduce, reintroduce and familiarise you with a range of aspects of musical structure and its notation. Alongside this, you will present and discuss your work, both individually and in groups – enhancing skills in teamwork and presentation