Let’s prepare you to step into the performing arts industry.

Actively create, make and perform your own work, as well as collaborate with students from other courses across the arts school – these are all things you will get to do whilst in the process of improving and building your techniques and skills to a high standard on our Performing Arts course.

The practical nature of the course ensures that you will be on your feet, doing what you love and working on live performances in theatre, site-specific venues, and festivals. You will be given recorded performance experience too, as you create films, audio dramas, animations, as well as immersive and multi-media events.

Your learning journey with us will be unique to you. Our small group sizes and high contact hours mean that you will be mentored by our experienced tutors to become the creative professional you want to be.

You may graduate to become a performer, actor (for stage or screen), professional dancer or physical actor, writer, director, choreographer, deviser, applied theatre practitioner, film-maker or digital artist. Or you may decide to go into postgraduate study or work in education, marketing, creative administration, or run your own company.

As part of your learning journey, you will have the opportunity to undertake work placements as well as work in multiple collaborations across other disciplines and with external industry professionals, giving you the ideal opportunity to meet and network with potential future collaborators or employers.

As a Live and Recorded Performance student, you will experience an exciting range of projects designed to develop skills, including: musical theatre, stage acting, choreography, movement for performers, acting for screen, audio acting, aerial circus, and other forms of dynamic performance.

There are regular opportunities throughout the course to perform in front of audiences and to be part of full-scale productions.

Each term you have a choice to work on either a ‘live’ performance such as a live theatre piece, or a ‘recorded’ project, such as choreographing and dancing in a music video.You will get the chance to explore diverse forms of live and recorded performance over three projects per year, where you could go from performing in a music video, to a Shakespeare play, to a piece of musical theatre.

Collaboration is a key focus of the course, and students are also encouraged to develop into ‘thinking’ performers. Both these collaborative and research skills are essential for a smooth transition into higher education, and continued growth as performers with successful careers.

You can choose to specialise in either Performance or Dance, or take the opportunity to combine both throughout the course. In the first year all students also study singing skills.

Get ready for an exhilarating and challenging journey to prepare you for life as an independent, creative professional actor.

You’ll be encouraged to take an independent and imaginative approach to the craft, as you build a full range of relevant movement, voice, musical and acting skills.

The skills you’ll learn will draw on the latest developments in the industry, enhanced by your teachers’ knowledge and experience and supported by the advanced performance technologies which we have in our cutting-edge facilities.

The Ensemble is at the heart of how we’ll train you. Drama is a collaborative art form and we place great emphasis on the individual’s responsibility to the group and the group’s responsibility to the individual. This creates an atmosphere of mutual respect where creativity can flourish.

You’ll gain confidence during your training, learning that an authentic and enthusiastic approach is the best preparation for a life in a dynamic profession. You’ll learn how to meet challenges head-on from the new knowledge and skills you’ll develop in your training.

Develop your performance talents in a friendly and inspiring atmosphere.

This course provides students with a strong grounding in performing arts and introduces a broad range of topics that support progression to further study.

Our aim is to encourage you to develop a knowledge and understanding of performing arts, and to grow in confidence across a range of disciplines. Students will build upon existing skills, and learn new acting and dance techniques for rehearsals and performances – all within a highly creative arts college environment.

Our performing arts students benefit from the College’s partnerships and links to:

- Hay Festival
- Pentabus Theatre
- The Courtyard Centre for the Arts
- Dancefest
- Aerial Dance Hereford Performing Arts

Key Areas

Acting skills and techniques.
Employment opportunities and skills.
Dance skills and techniques.
Production roles and opportunities.
Musical theatre performance.

This part-time evening Foundation course delivers the core elements of skills training while developing creativity and artistic identity.

Not everyone is in a position to commit to full-time training. With classes taking place three evenings per week this course enables students to study alongside their work. This structure, combined with competitive course fees, is one of the most accessible Foundation courses in the UK.

The course is taught from September to April over three evenings each week. You will receive nine hours of contact teaching each week for two terms.

Skills classes focus on the core discipline areas of acting, voice and movement and the course is a balance of 45% skills training, 30% audition preparation and 25% performance-based work.

While the course is part time in its delivery, its content, intensity and the demands on the student mirror its full-time counterpart. Students develop technique and repertoire for future drama school auditions.

The Millennium Performing Arts Diploma is a private training course that may lead to the Level 4 ATCL Diploma through enrolment onto The Performance Course ToTheCore at the end of the year, or to an internally awarded professional qualification following the successful completion of the full three year course.

The level 4 ATCL is a separate enrolment and adds a further course fee to your costs.

Students elect to follow either musical theatre or dance pathways.

The diploma course focuses on professional-level, work-based, practice designed to ensure graduates are fully prepared for their chosen career. The key subject elements are taught by highly-experienced industry professionals who are also experts in teaching and learning.

Students who wish to pursue an educational qualification may join, in their final year and if their assessment results allow for this pathway, the Trinity College London Level 6 Professional Diploma.

This is the graduating (final) year fully recognised educational qualification, regulated by Ofqual. A student would need to be Approved for Prior Learning to be able to enrol at this level. The student would need to complete the Performance Course as part of their final year training, so would need to enrol onto this course from the beginning of the academic year. This course at full fee charge also includes either private tuition in Singing and Acting.

What makes Musical Theatre BA (Hons) with Millennium Performing Arts special?

Our Musical Theatre curriculum will provide a complete practical training experience for students interested in performance. Based at the Millennium Studios in London, the course’s core disciplines are dance, singing and acting, with a focus on excellence in Musical Theatre practice.

Graduates gain immediate eligibility for membership of Equity (the actors’ and dancers’ union) and immediate eligibility for inclusion in Spotlight (the industry casting service).

A YEAR OF FOCUSED, FULL-TIME, APPLIED DRAMA TRAINING

Open to applicants between 18-24, our Peer Actor Development Programme (PAD) could help you continue learning whilst using your talent to make a difference in the lives of other young people. During your year at Peer you will have the opportunity to work with industry professionals, to tour in theatre productions and lead outreach projects - as well as getting support with Drama School applications and auditions. This is the perfect launch PAD for your future and career.

AND THE BEST PART? IT’S COMPLETELY FREE.

The PAD Programme has been designed with young people’s potential, talents, and ambition in mind. We want to equip them for whatever their next steps in life might be and help launch their careers.

Most of our young actors go on to drama school or higher education, and many former alumni have established successful careers in the industry.

The course is accredited using the RSL Level 4 Creative Practitioner Diploma, a qualification specifically designed for aspiring industry professionals. It offers specialist career-focused training for artists, producers and entrepreneurs across the creative industries. At Peer, our course runs for FREE, full time from Monday to Friday.

All the young artists who train with Peer Productions are individuals, with their own unique strengths, areas for development and ambitions. As a result, no two learners will have the same path through the qualification and learning opportunities offered.