Course Modules

You will explore a variety of approaches to devised or adapted screen performance. Each filmed project aims to develop key skills and to begin the process of acquiring useful showreel material.

This year-long programme of study is focused on the additional skills that will extend the film actor’s repertoire and employability. You will have the choice of techniques to explore further, such as Streetfighting, Swordfighting, Prosthetics, Acting Through Song, Period/Social Dance,

You will learn to explore the local, national and international marketplace for music teaching and music performance and be introduced to several different models of successful positioning within it. A successful career as a music professional needs to be informed,

You will be introduced to issues of instrumental pedagogy, ranging from the simple and readable to the complex and specialised, with a particular focus on working with young learners. The imaginative communication of ideas and the appropriateness of different teaching

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

You will take part in workshop/masterclass-style sessions, which explore the ‘self’ in performance. Focus points will include discussion around developing an individual identity, exploring useful modes of self-reflection, and navigating the types of challenges which might be encountered when self-recording,

This module will introduce, reintroduce and familiarise you with a range of music theories (traditional, jazz, rock) and aspects of musical structure and notation. Alongside this, you will present and discuss your work, both individually and in groups, enhancing skills

You will develop your knowledge of a variety of repertoire in the three main languages being studied, with weekly lectures in French, Italian and German. You will be exposed to essential language skills and pronunciation for song and opera, and

You will explore key figures in jazz history, from the 1920s through to more contemporary composers in the jazz tradition. This module will introduce you to the basic aspects of jazz theory with a view towards developing improvisation, composition and

This module develops your basic performance and communication skills and your sense of performance context. You will develop your repertoire, your understanding of style and your skills in preparing for an audition or performance. You will take part in group