Course Modules

This module allows you to undertake more ambitious personal development in performance across two venues and under different performance conditions, as you work towards a staged performance for the festival circuit.

You will explore contemporary and recent examples of musical theatre, with a particular focus on transferring that knowledge into a practical community-based project, culminating in you working both on and off campus with children from local schools.

This module allows you to undertake more ambitious personal development in performance as you work in different venues and under different performance conditions. You will strengthen your vocal and dance techniques and explore performance skills in narrative and script work,

This module introduces a range of techniques in structuring lessons, communicating expressive and performance based concepts and problem solving designed to create an exciting and stimulating learning experience for individual singers, dancers and actors embarking on the early stages of

You will have the opportunity to select an area of study of your choice, in singing, dance, acting, lecture presentation or written work, and to develop this over an extended period. This will provide you with an opportunity to develop

You will explore the importance of observing and contrasting screen acting technique and styles through lectures and screenings, and will be expected to articulate the context of performances in group discussion.

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