The BA (Hons) Dance and Drama degree at Edinburgh College is an intensive industry training course delivered by Kingston University. Challenge your potential as you immerse yourself in the art of theatre and performance through a range of techniques. This is a university-level course that will ensure you are prepared to an industry standard to progress into a career as a portfolio artist.
You will develop a range of transferable skills to equip you for the demands of a competitive world. Actors and performers have a massive influence on society and this course aims to show you how you can become a part of that influence. You will critically engage in industry practices and learn how to take a simple performance idea and bring it to life. Throughout the course, you will gain essential experience in professional environments and make crucial connections with industry professionals.
Performing Arts Studio Scotland (PASS) has a range of exceptional professional facilities including the Pass studio theatre as well as dance, acting and aerial studios. Many of the BA Performances take place in external venues such as Festival Theatre Studio, Traverse Theatre and Assembly Roxy.
This ONLINE/REMOTE course is a one-year Level 6 qualification that allows students with a Performing Arts (Musical Theatre, Dance or Acting) Diploma from a recognised list of Drama Schools to top up their qualification to a degree.
It can be accessed and completed online which will allow students to run this alongside other commitments.
Entry Requirements
The applicant will need to have achieved a Diploma in Performing Arts (Musical Theatre, Dance, Acting) from a list of recognised schools.
The Application process will involve a 500 word piece of writing based on a question provided by the institution, the necessary qualifications and an interview with the academic panel.
HND Musical Theatre is a diverse course designed to push you towards your performing potential. This multi-faceted course will test your skills in acting, singing and dancing with a view to progressing to a career in the exciting industry of musical theatre.
Performing Arts Studio Scotland (PASS) has a range of exceptional professional facilities including the Pass studio theatre as well as dance, acting and aerial studios
You will gain essential experience through practical and theoretical studies, which include varied acting techniques, vocal training using Estill and other practices, jazz, tap dance, musical theatre repertoire, and production. Opportunities to visit theatres and take part in industry-run workshops will be available through PASS industry connections. As part of this course, you will participate in exciting projects and musical theatre productions.
Upon completion, you will be qualified for further study of musical theatre at a university level. This course also offers exciting opportunities for collaboration with other students at Edinburgh College including make-up artists, costume designers and technical theatre designers. You will meet previous PASS students who have become theatre professionals at our inspiring PASS It On sessions throughout the year.
You will leave this course having learned how to take a simple idea, and expand and explore it until becomes a final product; bringing it to life in musical form.
PPA is an inclusive and lively community of performers, industry practitioners and facilitators.
We champion a safe and supportive working environment, promoting a strong ensemble ethic whilst allowing individuality and identity.
Our students enjoy long lasting personal and professional relationships formed while closely exploring a wide range of learning experiences, rehearsal-based projects and public performances.
We are dedicated to individual development and our team of industry-experienced tutors deliver a rigorous and innovative training programme designed to prepare graduates for today’s industry with a dual focus on both Stage and Screen.
Reflection on professional practice is an empowering aspect of the student experience and in the third year there is the opportunity to write your dissertation on the subject that matters most to you.
In addition, there is the possibility of access to the PPA Agency, which has enviable industry links and may promote graduates into the Acting world with access to agents, casting directors and potential employers. Where possible, we encourage students to develop industry links via public performances, auditions, work-based learning opportunities and the Showcase.
BA (Hons) Acting for Stage and Screen is validated by De Montfort University. To apply for this course you will need to have 96 UCAS points (new tariff) and be over the age of 18 before the 1st September at enrolment.
This degree course is a full-time industry-focused actor-training.
There will be an emphasis on fostering the skills needed to create your own work – such as screenwriting, editing and producing.
A key focus of the programme is screen acting – with 50% of the curriculum devoted to this area of the industry.
At Collective we champion groups who have traditionally been underrepresented within the Performing Arts – specifically in terms of ethnicity, disability and class.
** This course is currently ‘subject to validation’ by Queen Margaret University. Edinburgh.
An intensive, condensed course for graduates of any discipline or those with some acting experience. The minimum age is 21 and there is no upper age limit.
Postgraduate students begin individual programmes relating to their needs in voice, movement and auditioning, as well as career-related studies, at an early stage in the course.
The course also includes comprehensive career guidance and opportunities to show your work to agents and casting directors through a season of productions and an end of term showcase in London’s West End.
This course will help you pursue your interests and skills in a range of practical and theory drama elements including:
AS Unit 1: Theatre Workshop (24% of qualification)
A2 Unit 3: Text in Action (36% of qualification)
A2 Unit 4: Text in Performance (24% of qualification)
Entry Requirements
Grade B in GCSE English. A keen interest in performing and dramatic arts.
The AS and A2 course is taught at the Arts centre at the college's Gorseinon campus and is based on 4.5 hours of teaching throughout the academic year.
Each learner is assessed by the tutors and through external moderation and examination by external examiners of the WJEC.
Learners studying A Level Drama have progressed onto studying at leading drama colleges such as RADA, LAMDA , Bristol Old Vic and The Central School of Speech and Drama. Many learners go on to study drama at university.
Let your career take centre stage as you gain professional musical theatre skills and industry experience. You’ll be given the opportunity to develop sector-specific knowledge within contemporary and jazz dance styles, singing and vocal techniques alongside exploring acting skills. With all these combined, you will apply them to a variation of musicals, performing in different spaces throughout the year and executing your final performance in the Chroma-Q Theatre.
You will focus on various styles and techniques, choreograph performance work and collaborate with other disciplines, all of which will prepare you for the working world or progression onto level 3.
You will learn how to
- Develop skills in Dance styles and techniques with Musical Theatre
- Explore professional development needs
- Develop and create a collaborative performance
- Present an audition portfolio
- Apply your skills to a performance
Cost for adults (aged 19 and over)*: £2,111 plus exam fee of £114
MA Performance: Politics and Social Justice at Wimbledon College of Arts explores contemporary theatre and performance as practices of cultural critique, social protest and political intervention.
MA Performance: Politics and Social Justice focuses on cultural politics and critical aesthetics in contemporary performance. The course emphasises socially and politically engaged practices and methods of enquiry and encourages creative outcomes that tackle social justice issues.
Your approach to performance, politics, and social justice should be a practical one. A studio-based learning environment will enable you to focus on making performance.
The course wants you to:
- think critically about the cultural politics of your performance-making
- place your work in the context of global and local political challenges
- look at how your work addresses social, racial and climate justice
- re-imagine the possibilities of theatre and performance.
Wimbledon aims to provide fertile ground for the formation of new socially and politically engaged performance practices and collectives. The course will encourage you to become a confident artist, activist, and researcher.
An internationally unique course which trains you to create, explore, examine and expand queer performance practice.
The first and only MA of its kind to focus on queer performance, this course offers broad training in a range of queer performance practice, delivered by renowned queer artists, theatre-makers, academics, and researchers.
Fiercely socially engaged, political, experimental, and interdisciplinary, the course provides an in-depth, comprehensive examination of queer performance practice, studying its themes, methodologies, and untapped possibilities.
By collaborating closely with other queers in a supportive context, the course develops and expands your individual practice by offering opportunities to contextualise your work while collaborating with others.
We welcome all students with an interest in engaging with queer performance, whether primarily as maker (in theatre, live art, drag, cabaret, writing, video and moving image, sound art, digital arts), researcher, critic, facilitator or producer.
Duration: 15 or 28 months
